Understanding the nanotechnology revolution

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wolf, E. L
Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience Online service
Group Author: Medikonda, Manasa
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9783527664863
Carrier Form: 1 online resource.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9783527664863 (electronic bk.)
3527664866 (electronic bk.)
9783527411092 (Paper)
3527411097 (Paper)
9783527664894
3527664890
9781280663178 (MyiLibrary)
1280663170 (MyiLibrary)
Index Number: T174
CLC: B383
Contents: Front Matter -- Discovery, Invention, and Science in Human Progress -- Smaller Is More, Usually Better, and Sometimes Entirely New! -- Systematics of Scaling Things Down: = 1 m ? 1 nm -- Biology as Successful Nanotechnology -- The End of Scaling: The Lumpiness of All Matter in the Universe -- Quantum Consequences for the Macroworld -- Some Natural and Industrial Self-Assembled Nanostructures -- Injection Lasers and Billion-Transistor Chips -- The Scanning Tunneling Microscope and Scanning Tunneling Microscope Revolution -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Nanophysics of Spin ư -- Nanophysi