The textbook outlines the basic physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles, nanomaterials, nanostructures - objects of nanotechnology. A number of examples of nanotechnology processes are considered, as well as modern methods for studying nanoobjects. The material is divided into chapters, each of which has a theoretical part, self-study test questions and small open-type tests. A number of chapters present problems for self-solution and examples of their solution, and at the end of the manual a dictionary of the main terms used in the studied discipline is given.