Nanoscale: visualizing an invisible world

Nanoscale: visualizing an invisible world

Kenneth S. Deffeyes and Stephen E. Deffeyes

Cambridge, MA: MIT 2009 | Pp144 | £14.95 | ISBN 978 0 26 201283 6

Reviewed by Wendy Pitt

There has been an explosion of research and information on all things nanosized. This US book, with its American spellings, does not sit alongside more academic reference texts on the subject but is a coffee-table book intended for recreational reading. This is not to say that the text lacks rigour, though in the introduction I would have liked to have seen stated more accurately that elements numbered 1 to 92 are those that occur in Nature and that there are actually 115 known elements.