| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Originally published: 2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-223) and index. |
| Contents |
Fantastic voyages -- Looking at the nanoworld -- Nanofabrication -- The Brownian universe: physics at the nanoscale -- Making soft machines -- Machines and mechanisms -- Wetware: chemical computing from bacteria to brains -- Single-molecule electronics -- Our nanotechnological future. |
| Summary |
Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information with unparalleled power and precision. Is their vision realistic? This book explains why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world, and shows how nanotechnology will have more in common with biology than conventional engineering. - ;Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information with unparalleled power and precision. But is their vision realistic? Where is the science heading? As nanotechnology (a new technology that many believe will transform. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nanotechnology.
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Nanotechnology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Nanotechnology and life |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jones, Richard A.L. (Richard Anthony Lewis), 1961- Soft machines. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199226627 0199226628 (OCoLC)148291840 |
| ISBN |
9780191567247 (electronic book) |
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0191567248 (electronic book) |
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