This work contains 16 chapters selected from a five-volume reference work published in October 2000, Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology. The chapters are arranged to provide a source of in-depth, practical knowledge for synthesis and fabrication of nanoscale materials, electrical and optical properties, supramolecular nanostructures, and bioassemblies. Some specific topics include silicon-based nanostructures, electronic transport properties of quantum dots, photorefractive semiconductor nanostructures, and linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of semiconductor nanocrystals. Intended for researchers, and students working in materials science, semiconductor technology, solid-state physics, chemistry, nanoscale science and technology, and biology. The editor works in the private sector