Seeing the Nano World

We can design and synthesize nanomaterials faster than we can verify what we have actually built. At the center of this book is a simple conviction: you cannot scale what you cannot see. It explains how cryogenic electron microscopy, artificial intelligence, and foundation models are turning nanoscale imaging into an autonomous verification engine for materials science, covering the design-build-test-learn loop, the metrology bottleneck, 3D reconstruction, self-supervised learning, generative density priors, and the hallucination problem in scientific AI, then applies these ideas to energy materials, direct lithium extraction, hydrothermal nanomanufacturing, and self-driving laboratories. Book Three of The Atomic Economy Trilogy.