Potential of Nanotechnology is enormous and includes virtually in every field of engineering and science. Researchers and technologists all across the world have realized this and call it the Technology of the Future. At the present time many nanomaterials are under active research and development. The book is intended to develop interest amongst students of all branches of Engineering and science, including researchers so that they will know the fundamentals and future scope of the subject. The books deals with several aspects of the nanotechnology and its fundamentals and applications, i.e Nanotechnology, tools and techniques, nanomaterials, nanocomposites. This book highlighted the applications of nanotechnology in construction industry, automobiles, materials science, energy, solar power, biomedical, electronics, waste water treatment and many more. In the present book, editors have puts their best efforts to make this area more intresting and expect that this book offers broad examples of existing developments in nanocomposite technology research and an excellent introduction to the nanomaterial applications. The text of this book is in lucid and easily understandable language with appropriate illustration. Lastly, we will welcome the constructive suggestions from the users of this book for the enhancing of book quality.

"Dr. Chitranjan Agrawal is working as Asstt. Professor in the department of Mechanical Engineering at College of Technology and Engineering, Udaipur affiliated to Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur. He has completed his B.E. from MNIT, Jaipur in 1995, M.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2004 and Ph.D. from IIT Roorkee in 2013. He has more than 16 years of Industrials and Teaching experience. He has been selected for various govt. posts through UPSC Delhi and RPSC Ajmer. That include Jr. Works Manager in Ministry of Defence, Assistant Director Ministry of Labour and Training, MVSI Department of Transport. He has more than 20 research publications in various reputed Journal/Conference Proceedings of national and international levels. He has also authored text book on Engineering Mechanics. Mr. Ranveer S. Shekhawant has about 12 years of experience in teaching, research and industry in the domain of civil Engineering. He has started his career as GET at JK White Cement, Gotan. He has worked as alecturer at BITS, Pilani. He has also worked as Head and Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Department at Govt. Engineering College, Jhalawar. Currently he is working as Assistant Professor in Department of cilvil Engineering, College of Technology and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Raj.) Mr. Shekhawat received his B.E. (Hons.) in Civil Engineering from MBM Engineering and Management from IIT Delhi and is pursuing his Ph.D. in structural Engineering from IIT Roorkee. His research interest include Concrete Technology, Smart Materials, and Structural Analysis. He is life member of IEI, India, ICI India and Indian Society of Agriculture Engineers. Mr. Shekhawat ha autored more than 12 publications in various eminent national and international journals/conference proceedings. He has also been instrumental in organizing/conducting few national seminars and training. He can be reached at [email protected]."