No Small Matter : : Science on the Nanoscale / / Felice C. Frankel, George M. Whitesides.
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 expla...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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