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Designing the Molecular World : Chemistry at the Frontier /
Some of the most exciting scientific developments in recent years have come not from theoretical physicists, astronomers, or molecular biologists but instead from the chemistry lab. Chemists have created superconducting ceramics for brain scanners, designed liquid crystal flat screens for television...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Princeton Science Library ;
117 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Engineering the Elements
- Part I The Changing Tradition
- 1 How It All Fits Together The architecture of molecules
- 2 Bringing Down the Barriers Getting chemical reactions to go
- 3 Caught in the Act Watching atoms dance
- 4 Impossible Order When atoms meet geometry
- Part II New Products, New Functions
- 5 Perfect Hosts and Welcome Guests Molecules that recognize each other and build themselves
- 6 Metals from Molecules Electronics goes organic
- 7 A Soft and Sticky World The self-organizing magic of colloid chemistry
- Part III Chemistry as a Process
- 8 Chemical Beginnings How chemistry came to life
- 9 Far from Stable Fractals, chaos, and complexity in chemistry
- 10 Transforming the Globe The crises of atmospheric chemistry
- Bibliography
- Credits
- Index