Designing the Molecular World : : Chemistry at the Frontier / / Philip Ball.
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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Ball, Philip, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Designing the Molecular World : Chemistry at the Frontier / Philip Ball. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021] ©1994 1 online resource (384 p.) : 18 color plates 224 figs text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Science Library ; 117 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 televisions and watch displays, and made fabrics that change color while you wear them. They have fashioned metals from plastics, drugs from crude oil, and have pinpointed the chemical pollutants affecting our atmosphere and are now searching for remedies for the imperiled planet. Philip Ball, an editor for the prestigious magazine Nature, lets the lay reader into the world of modern chemistry. Here, for example, chemists find new uses for the improbable buckminsterfullerene molecules--60-atom carbon soccerballs, dubbed "buckyballs"--which seem to have applications for everything from lubrication to medicine to electronics. The book is not intended as an introduction to chemistry, but as an accessible survey of recent developments throughout many of the major fields allied with chemistry: from research in traditional areas such as crystallography and spectroscopy to entirely new fields of study such as molecular electronics, artificial enzymes, and "smart" polymer gels. Ball's grand tour along the leading edge of scientific discovery will appeal to all curious readers, with or without any scientific training, to chemistry students looking for future careers, and to practicing chemical researchers looking for information on other specialties within their discipline. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) SCIENCE / Chemistry / General. bisacsh DNA. Heeger, Alan. Jerome, Denis. acetic acid. adenine. alkali metals. aluminum. ammonia. antibonding orbitals. autocatalysis. azobenzene. bacteria. bilayers. biogeochemical cycles. carbohydrates. carbon dioxide. clusters. copper. diamond. electron. enantiomers. enzymes. formaldehyde. fractals. global warming. greenhouse effect. hydrocarbons. hydrogen bonding. infrared radiation. interstellar molecules. irrational numbers. lattice. liquid crystals. malonic acid. metabolism. methane. nitrogen. nucleotides. optoelectronics. peptide bond. phase transitions. polarized light. potassium. quantum mechanics. replication. semiconductors. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691219394?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691219394 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691219394.jpg |
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