This book communicates, in easy-to-understand language, tough-to-understand concepts, providing a comprehensive reference for technically interested/trained laymen in the general public interested in learning more about this revolutionary, high impact field of technology. The amount and level of math used in the pedagogy of the text has been reduced to cater to the general audience, and the book includes behind the scenes stories of Nobel-prize-winning scientists of eureka moments or the back-of-the-envelope calculations showing real-world numbers of nanotechnology. Thematic figures have been added to pique the interest and guide readers.