Main description:

Nanorobots can be defined as intelligent systems with overall dimensions at or below the micrometer range that are made of assemblies of nanoscale components with individual dimensions ranging between 1 to 100 nm. These devices can now perform a wide variety of tasks at the nanoscale in a wide variety of fields including but not limited to fields such as manufacturing, medicine, supply chain, biology, and aerospace. Nanorobotics: Current Approaches and Techniques offers a comprehensive overview of this emerging interdisciplinary field with a wide ranging discussion that includes nano-manipulation and industrial nanorobotics, nanorobotic manipulation in biology and medicine, nanorobotic sensing, navigation and swarm behavior and CNT, and protein and DNA-based nanorobotics.

Contents:

Section I: NanoRobotics: The Vision and Applications.- Introduction to NanoRobotics.- Nanomechanical Cantilever-Based Manipulation for Sensing and Imaging.- Swarms of Self-Organized Nanorobots.- Reservoir Nanoagents for In-Situ Sensing and Intervention.- Miniaturization and Micro/ Nanotechnology in Space Robotics.- Diamondoid Nanorobotics.- Section II: Nano-Manipulation and Industrial NanoRobotics.- Virtual Tooling for Nano Assembly and Nano Manipulations.- Nanorobotic Mass Transport.- Nanorobotic Manipulation of 1D Nanomaterials in Scanning Electron Microscopes.- Section III: Nano-Manipulation in Biomedical Applications.- Nanorobotic Manipulation and Sensing for Biomedical Applications.- Nanohandling of Bio-Materials.- Apply Robot-Tweezer Manipulation to Cell Stretching for Biomechanical Characterization.- Section IV: Inside the Body Nanorobotic Applications.- Propulsion and Navigation Control of MRI-Guided Drug Delivery Nanorobots.- Generating Magnetic Fields for Controlling Nanorobots in Medical Applications.- MRI-based Nanorobotics.- Therapeutic Bacterial Nanorobots for Targeted Drug Delivery Deep Inside Tumors.- Sensing Strategies for Early Diagnosis of Cancer by Swarm of Nanobots: An Evidential Paradigm.- Section V: Bio-Nano Actruators for Nano-Robotics.- DNA Nanorobotics.- DNA for Self-Assembly.- Local Environmental Control Technique for Bacterial Flagellar Motor.- Protein Based Nanoscale Actuation.