Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
No Small Matter uses dazzling images and evocative descriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realities and possibilities of nanoscience. It considers both the benefits and the risks of nano/microtechnology--from the potential of quantum computers and single-molecule genomic sequencers to the concerns about self-replicating nanosystems.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780674272736
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6796235
DDC:
620.5
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- 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.
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