No Small Matter : Science on the Nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.
Frankel, Felice C., author.; Whitesides, George M., author.
2009
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Title No Small Matter : Science on the Nanoscale / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.
Author Frankel, Felice C., author.
ISBN 9780674272736
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674272736
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (192 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674272736 doi
Call Number QC176
Summary A small revolution is remaking the world. The only problem is, we can't see it. This book uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. An introduction to the science and technology of small things, No Small Matter explains science on the nanoscale. Authors Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides offer 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. They describe the new methods used to study nanostructures, suggest ways of understanding their often bizarre behavior, and outline their uses in technology. This book explains the various means of making nanostructures and speculates 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. By making the practical and probable realities of nanoscience as comprehensible and clear as possible, the book provides a unique vision of work at the very boundaries of modern science.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Small
1 Santa Maria
2 Feeling Is Seeing
3 Quantum Cascades
4 Water
5 Single Molecules
6 Cracks
7 Nanotubes
Alice in Wonderland
8 Vibrating Viola String
9 Prism and Diffraction
10 Duality
11 Interference
12 Quantum Apple
13 Molecular Dominoes
14 The Cell in Silhouette
15 Laminar Flow
16 The Wet Fantastic
17 Fingers
Life
18 Soap Bubbles
19 The Cell as Circus
20 Ribosome
21 Bacterial Flagella
22 Life as a Jigsaw Puzzle
23 As the Wheel Turns
24 Quantum Dots and the Cell
25 Sequencing DNA
26 Molecular Recognition
27 Harvesting Light
28 The Elegance of Simple Animals
29 Antibodies
30 Virus
Why Care?
31 Writing with Light
32 Eleanor Rigby
33 Abacus
34 Counting on Two Fingers
35 Babbage's Computing Engine
36 Computers as Waterworks
37 Microreactor
38 Templating
39 Catalyst Particles
40 Christmas-Tree Mixer
41 Self-Assembly
42 Synthetic Nose
43 Millipede
44 E-paper and The Book
45 Lateral-Flow Assay as Crystal Ball
46 Testing Drugs in Cells
47 Cooling the Fevered Brain
A CHEETAH IN THE UNDERBRUSH?
48 Phantoms
49 Privacy and the Nest
50 Soot and Health
51 Robots
52 Fog
53 In Sickness and in Health
Whale or herring?
54 The Internet
55 Reverse Osmosis Membrane
56 Nuclear Reactions
57 Flame
58 Fuel Cell
59 Solar Cell
60 Plants and Photosynthesis
Coda
Five Not-So-Easy Pieces: Notes from the Photographer
Further Reading
Acknowledgments
VISUAL INDEX

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