Although touted as the next industrial revolution, the interdisciplinary nature of nanotechnology can pose a challenge to students. Exploring nanotechnology through a life sciences filter, this book focuses on the applications of nanoscience and the engineering aspects of medical and biotechnological nanodevices. Divided into introductory, intermediate, and advanced section, each chapter offers a succinct introduction, a detailed discussion of the topic at hand with illustrative examples, numerous figures and necessary equations, and a concise summary. Problem sets include exercises of varying difficulty and numerical problems that are analytical to thought provoking.