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Preface
questions and detailed references/bibliography. Appendices are also provided
which contain an updated/expanded timeline of major materials developments
and the complete Feynman speech “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”. An
expanded collection of materials-related laboratory modules is also included, which
now includes the fabrication of porous silicon films, silicon nanowires, and links
to experiments related to ferrofluids, metallurgical phase transitions, and the heat
treatment of glasses.
My wife Diyonn continues to be a source of inspiration and support for my
pedagogical and research projects. Thank you for your love, support, and heartfelt
professional advise. I am also grateful to my parents Frank and Pearl for their
continuing support and Godly wisdom, to whom I attribute all of my many bles-
sings and successes. To say that my recent sabbatical at the Universidad de Costa
Rica was life-changing is an under-statement. Muchas gracias a Profesores Arturo
Ramirez Porras, Daniel Azofeifa Alvarado, Leslie Pineda, y Mavis Montero por su
hospitalidad y amistad. Our ‘adoptive Costa Rican family’ (Giancarlo and Marisol
DeFranco, Grace Pastrana, Keylin Wu, Marcela Pastrana, and Luce Pastrana) and
close friends (Marian Zerpa and Jose Morales) will never be forgotten – thanks for
your continuing friendship and love.
I am also very appreciative for the input provided by students and instructors
who have either adopted or considered the adoption of the first edition. I continue to
offer thanks to every reader of this book, and solicit your comments to my email
fahlmanb@gmail.com. Please let me know what you think of this edition; I will
continue to incorporate your suggestions to strengthen future editions.

Bradley D. Fahlman, Ph.D.
Mount Pleasant, Michigan
December 2010