Cargando…
No small matter science on the nanoscale /
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 g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2009.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Ribosome
- 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.