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No small matter : science on the nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.
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Frankel, Felice
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Description
vii, 182 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 x 27 cm
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Available Online
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Lewis Library - Stacks
QC176.8.N35 F73 2009
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Nanoscience
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Whitesides, G. M.
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Summary note
A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can't see it. Images and descriptions reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. An introduction to the science and technology of small things. An overview of recent scientific advances that have given us our ever-shrinking microtechnology - for instance, an information processor connected by wires only 1,000 atoms wide. New methods are described that are used to study nanostructures, suggest ways of understanding their often bizarre behavior, and outline their uses in technology. The various means of making nanostructures are explained and speculated about their importance for critical developments in information processing, computation, biomedicine, and other areas. No Small Matter considers both the benefits and the risks of nano/microtechnology - from the potential of quantum computers and single-molecule genomic sequencers to the concerns about self-replicating nanosystems.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Santa Maria
Feeling is seeing
Quantum cascades
Water
Single molecules
Cracks
Nanotubes
Vibrating viola string
Prism and diffraction
Duality
Interference
Quantum apple
Molecular dominoes
The cell in silhouette
Laminar flow
The wet fantastic
Fingers
Soap bubbles
The cell as circus
Robosome
Bacterial flagella
Life as a jigsaw puzzle
As the wheel turns
Quantum dots and the cell
Sequencing DNA
Molecular recognition
Harvesting light
The elegance of simple animals
Antibodies
Virus
Writing with light
Eleanor Rigby
Abacus
Counting on two fingers
Babbage's computing engine
Computers as waterworks
Microreactor
Templating
Catalyst particles
Christmas-tree mixer
Self-assembly
Synthetic nose
Millipede
e-paper and the book
Lateral-flow assay as crystal ball
Testing drugs in cells
Cooling the fevered brain
Phantoms
Privacy and the nest
Soot and health
Robots
Fog
In sickness and in health
The internet
Reverse osmosis membrane
Nuclear reactions
Flame
Fuel cell
Solar cell
Plants and photosynthesis.
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ISBN
9780674035669 ((alk. paper))
0674035666 ((alk. paper))
LCCN
2009931380
OCLC
430498299
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No small matter [electronic resource] : science on the nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.
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