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Science On The Nanoscale
Belknap Press of Harvard University Pres
November 2009
On Sale: November 9, 2009
192 pages
ISBN: 0674035666
EAN: 9780674035669
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 explains science on the nanoscale.
Authors Felice C. Frankel and George M. Whitesides offer an
overview of recent scientific advances that have given us
our ever-shrinking microtechnology—for instance, an
information processor connected by wires only 1,000 atoms
wide. They describe the new methods used to study
nanostructures, suggest ways of understanding their often
bizarre behavior, and outline their uses in technology. This
book explains the various means of making nanostructures and
speculates about their importance for critical developments
in information processing, computation, biomedicine, and
other areas. No Small Matter 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. By making the practical and probable realities
of nanoscience as comprehensible and clear as possible, the
book provides a unique vision of work at the very boundaries
of modern science.
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