Interatomic Potentials‎:‎ Quantum Mechanical Treatment of the Many‎-Particle Problem‎;‎ Potential Energy Surface‎;‎ Pair Potential Approximation‎;‎ Advantages and Limitations of the Pair Potential Approximation‎;‎ Phenomenological Potentials‎;‎ Pseudo‎-Potentials‎;‎ Many‎-Body Potentials‎;‎ Molecular Dynamics ‎(‎MD‎)‎‎:‎ Models for MD Calculations‎;‎ Visualization Techniques‎;‎ Solution of the Equations of Motion‎;‎ Efficient Force Field Computation‎;‎ Implementation‎;‎ Characterization of Nano‎-Systems‎:‎ Thermal Stability‎;‎ Basic Material Properties‎;‎ Wear at the Nanometer Level‎;‎ Mean Values and Correlation Functions‎;‎ Nano‎-Engineering ‎- Studies and Conclusions‎:‎ Nano‎-Machines‎;‎ Nano‎-Clusters‎;‎ Stimulated Nano‎-Cluster Transformations‎;‎ Analogy Considerations‎;‎ The Bifurcation Phenomenon at the Nanometer Scale‎;‎ Analogies to Biology‎;‎ Final Considerations‎.‎