Nanotechnologies

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This updated second edition puts nanotechnologies into perspective by explaining issues in health, environmental and military application domains, and discusses the technology in the context of current media and ethical debates. It also introduces the ambitious, and perhaps almost utopian, NBIC program (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology and Cognitive Science); an initiative that foresees the 'reunification' of science by encouraging collaboration among specialists of differe…

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Title Statements

Full title :Nanotechnologies / Michel Wautelet ... et al. ; preface by Jean-Marie Lehn ; translated from French by Aboubacar Chaehoi.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Institution of Engineering and Technology
Place of Publication:London, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781849190978, 1849190976
oclc:ocn460736344
LC Classification:T174.7
Dewey Decimal:620.5

List of authors; Preface to the first edition; Introduction; 1 The nanotechnology revolution; 2 Atomic structure and cohesion; 3 Electronic structures of nanosystems; 4 Molecular electronics; 5 Neuroelectronics; 6 Plastic electronics; 7 Fabrication of nanostructures; 8 Organic-matrix-based nanocomposites; 9 Nanomagnetism; 10 Nanotechnologies in perspective; Appendix 1 Electron microscopy; Appendix 2 X photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) and secondary ionsmass spectroscopy (ToF SIMS); Appendix 3 Imaging by nuclear magnetic resonance; Bibliography; Index.