part Section 1 The Promise of Nanotechnology and Nanoscience -- chapter 1 There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom: An Invitation to Enter a New Field of Physics -- chapter 2 Room at the Bottom, Plenty of Tyranny at the Top -- part Section 2: Molecular and Nano-Electronics: Concepts, Challenges, and Designs -- chapter 3 Engineering Challenges in Molecular Electronics -- chapter 4 Molecular Electronic Computing Architectures -- chapter 5 Nanoelectronic Circuit Architectures -- chapter 6 Nanocomputer Architectronics and Nanotechnology -- chapter 7 Architectures for Molecular Electronic Computers1 -- chapter 8 Spintronics-Spin-Based Electronics -- chapter 9 QWIP: A Quantum Device Success -- part Section 3: Molecular Electronics: Fundamental Processes -- chapter 10 Molecular Conductance Junctions: A Theory and Modeling Progress Report -- chapter 11 Modeling Electronics at the Nanoscale -- chapter 12 Resistance of a Molecule -- part Section 4: Manipulation and Assembly -- chapter 13 Nanomanipulation: Buckling, Transport, and Rolling at the Nanoscale -- chapter 14 Nanoparticle Manipulation by Electrostatic Forces -- chapter 15 Biologically Mediated Assembly of Artificial Nanostructures and Microstructures -- chapter 16 Nanostructural Architectures from Molecular Building Blocks -- part Section 5: Functional Structures and Mechanics -- chapter 17 Nanomechanics -- chapter 18 Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 19 Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes1 -- chapter 20 Dendrimers-An Enabling Synthetic Science to Controlled Organic Nanostructures -- chapter 21 Design and Applications of Photonic Crystals -- chapter 22 Nanostructred Materials -- chapter 23 Nano- and Micromachines in NEMS and MEMS -- chapter 24 Contributions of Molecular Modeling to Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology.