Nanotechnology: big promises ... high risks

The fifth edition of the book series “Maaref” (Knowledge) is a scientific book, dealing with a subject which is still in its infancy, the nanotechnology. This post-industrial science, which is still in its early outburst, constituting almost a concern to the developed scientific communities in the whole world, because of what is hoped of its revolution in the transfer of human to another time and another space, with all dimensions at the level of, for example, energy production and conversion, development of electronic industries friendly to the environment, sciences of space explores and discoveries, production of renewable solar cells, and fuel hydrogen, as well as fulfilling prominent unprecedented services in the fields of medicine, pharmaceutical industries, means of proven treatments for malignant diseases and chronic problems, such as eradicating cancer cells, re-up sight of the human person ...