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Fantastic voyages | |
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A new industrial revolution? | |
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The radical vision of nanotechnology | |
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Nano everywhere | |
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Into the nanoworld | |
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Looking at the nanoworld | |
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Light microscopy | |
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Seeing a single (big) molecule | |
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Other types of waves | |
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The electron microscope | |
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Imaging versus scattering | |
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Scanning probe microscopy | |
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Living in the nanoworld | |
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Nanofabrication | |
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Introduction | |
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The transistor | |
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Making integrated circuits | |
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Moore's law and beyond | |
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Direct writing | |
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Cheaper, smaller, more curved-soft lithography | |
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Making things besides chips-MEMS and NEMS | |
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The Brownian universe: physics at the nanoscale | |
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Introduction | |
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Fluid mechanics | |
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Flying nanobots? | |
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Brownian motion | |
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Stickiness | |
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The mechanical properties of small things | |
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Quantum effects | |
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'Fantastic voyage' revisited | |
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Making soft machines | |
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Self-assembly | |
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Order from disorder | |
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Soap | |
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From shoe soles to opals | |
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Self-assembly and life | |
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Protein folding | |
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Nucleic acids | |
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Living soft machines | |
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Beyond simple self-assembly | |
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How molecules evolve | |
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Copying nature | |
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Machines and mechanisms | |
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Introduction | |
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Prime movers-engines large and small | |
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Mechanisms and machines | |
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Sensors and transducers | |
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Wetware: chemical computing from bacteria to brains | |
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Introduction-Galvani and the chemical computer | |
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Reflex, instinct, and intelligence | |
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How E. Coli responds to its environment | |
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The principles of chemical computing | |
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The social life of cells | |
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Why big animals needed to develop a longer-ranged signalling mechanism | |
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Nervous energy | |
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How brains are different from computers | |
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Single-molecule electronics | |
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The green goo catastrophe | |
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Dyes and photosynthesis | |
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Clean power for all-non-conventional photovoltaics | |
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Organic metals and plastic semiconductors | |
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Roll-up television screens and paint-on lasers | |
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Plastic logic | |
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The ups and downs of molecular electronics | |
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Single molecules as electronic devices | |
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Integrating single-molecule electronics | |
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Our nanotechnological future | |
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Which way for nanotechnology? | |
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What should we worry about? | |
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Further reading | |
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Index | |