Intended as a textbook for graduate students, this volume is a cross-disciplinary work dedicated to describing physical phenomena that undergo quantitative or qualitative changes as the size of the objects under study gets down into the range of 0.1-1.0 nanometers. Here their quantum nature becomes more important, and thus the first chapter is devoted to an extensive discussion of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and band structure. This is followed by lengthy discussions of the electrical, optical, and magnetic properties of nanoscale materials. Full of drawings and mathematical equations, each chapter ends with some problems to engage the reader. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)