With contributions by experts in diverse fields of chemistry, physics, materials science, and medicine, this comprehensive survey of the current state of knowledge of nanotechnology highlights the great potentiality of the field. Presenting a variety of examples on surfaces and thin films of fullerenes, strategies for the chemical functionalization of carbon nanohorns and endohedral metallofullerenes in quantum computing, as well as providing insight on the morphology and structure of carbon nanotubes and the characterization of peapod materials with the aid of transmission electron microscopy, this well-researched and carefully illustrated report represents an up-to-date assessment on the rapid evolution of nanomaterial technology.