Abstract:
The present volume comprises the most important contributions to the NATO ASI “Nanoscience advances in CBRN agent detection, information and energy security” held on 29.5.–6.6.2014 in Sozopol, Bulgaria. This short introduction aims to give an overview of the topics of the ASI and to relate them to the presently actual state of the art, but also to future fields of research in nanosciences and nanotechnology. Another aim of this introduction is to hint the reader to the most important contributions of these proceedings.