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NANODESIGN : SOME BASIC QUESTIONS.
There is no doubt that nanoscience will be the dominant direction for technology in this century, and that this science will influence our lives to a large extent as well as open completely new perspectives on all scientific and technological disciplines. To be able to produce optimal nanosystems wi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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WSPC,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; CONTENTS; Chapter One: Nanodesign: Description at the Ultimate Level; 1.1 Treatment on the Same Footing; 1.2 Complexity of Nanosystems; 1.3 Nanotechnological Changes; 1.4 Brain Functions; 1.4.1 World Views; 1.4.2 Gödel's Theorem; 1.5 The Relevance of Basic Quantum Theory to Nanotechnology; 1.5.1 Temperature Effects; 1.5.2 Quantum Devices; 1.6 Summary; Chapter Two: Principal Remarks; 2.1 Simple Nanoclusters; 2.1.1 Bifurcation Phenomena; Discussion of Fig. 5; 2.1.2 Analogies with Biological Systems; Does there exist creativity at the nanolevel?
- 2.1.3 What is the Reason for Nanoeffects? A Few RemarksThe behavior of surface particles; Description of anharmonicities; Effects due to the anharmonicities; 2.1.4 Interaction Potential for Al; 2.1.5 Temperature Effects; 2.1.6 Methods of Description; Properties as a function of the particle number; New situation; 2.1.7 Concluding Remark and Summary; 2.1.8 What is Important?; 2.1.9 Solving the Equation of Motion; On the application of simplifying models; Basic information; 2.1.10 On the Design of Specific Nanosystems; Ferroelectric nanodevices; Design of specific materials
- Low density lipoproteinBiomolecular nanomotors; Avidin-biotin technology; Biomolecular translocations; Hierarchical nanostructures; Nanoparticles as vectors in gene delivery; Mechanical properties of nanostructures; Conclusion; 2.1.11 Theoretical and Computational Methods; General remarks; The most important techniques; 2.1.12 Features of the Methods; Molecular dynamics; Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics; Quantum molecular dynamics; The Monte Carlo method; Multiscale modeling; Multiscale modeling: a typical example; 2.2 Food Chemistry: What is a Nanopizza?; 2.3 Medicine; Brain Research
- On the Impact of Nanotechnology2.3.1 Brain Research; Self-organizing process; 2.3.2 Levels of Reality; On the description of brain functions; Living systems described mathematically; Application of Gödel's Theorem; Summary; 2.3.3 What Kind of Reality Do We Observe?; Experiments with animals; Respectively correct, but not comparable with each other; Nanotechnological changes of the brain functions; 2.3.4 The Strategy of Nature; An important principle: "as little outside world as possible"; Some principle remarks on biological evolution
- Not cognition but the differentiation between "favorable to survival" and "hostile to survival"Nanotechnological manipulations; Summary; Lashley and Pribham; Von Foerster; The world we experience is an invention of the brain; 2.3.5 Scientific Realism; The naive point of view; The role of the equations of motion; Conclusion; Consequences for physics; 2.3.6 Kant's Philosophy; 2.3.7 Experiments with Distorting Glasses; 2.3.8 D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson; Fish; Application to nanoscience; 2.3.9 Compatibility: Some Principal Remarks; The solution of specific problems; Species-preserving principles