While scanning through this book, you can sense the leadership of the inventor of the word that defines this field: the visionary pioneer who bridged the discovery of dendrimers, their first technological applications, the early merger of the fields of medicine and nanoscience into nanomedicine, and the grand vision of a uniform classification of the chemical sciences on all levels and length scales, in a ‘systematic nano-periodic framewok for unifying and defining nanoscience.’

In spite of numerous excellent books in this exciting field, bordering the interface between the most creative science of complex chemical synthesis by covalent and supramolecular bonds, and science fiction, a book like the current one could not have been written by anybody but Donald A. Tomalia, strongly aided and supported by two more recent practitioners in this field, Jørn B. Christensen and Ulrik Boas. Reading through this book, you can feel the dedication and imagination of D. A. Tomalia in the same way that you feel it in his lectures, trying to reach the minds and dreams of the young generation of scientists from the beginning of this new century.

This is not a book for those solely interested in having yet another updated and comprehensive list of publications from this field on their desk. This is a book which has been constructed based on almost a lifetime of dedication to the development of this field. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art of the most advanced conceptual developments in the field, for those creative contributors or newcomers who want to master the field directly from one of its most creative inventors and visionaries, and who are interested in listening to the authors’ views on its future, and its possible evolution into other new multidisciplinary fields.