Nanotechnology : molecular speculations on global abundance / edited by B.C. Crandall.

Contributor(s): Crandall, B. C .

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BookPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996Description: xi, 214 p. : ill (some col.) ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0262032376 (hbk); 0262531372 (pbk).Subject(s): Nanotechnology

| Molecular theory

DDC classification: 620.4

Contents:

Molecular engineering / BC Crandall -- Part I: Mostly inside -- In-vivo nanoscope and the "two-week revolution" / Ted Kaehler -- Cosmetic nanosurgery / Richard Crawford -- Diamond teeth / Edward M. Reifman -- Part II: Mostly outside -- Early applications / Harry Chesley -- The companion: a very personal computer / John Papiewski -- Trivial (uses of) nanotechnology / H. Keith Henson -- Nanotech hobbies / Tom McKendree -- Part III: Windows and environments -- Phased array optics / Brian Wowk -- Utility fog: the stuff that dreams are made of / J. Storrs Hall.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Bishopstown Library Lending	620.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00075994

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Advances in physics, molecular biology, and computer science are converging on the capacity to control, with molecular precision, the structure and function of matter.

Bibliography: p. 193-207. - Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface
1 Molecular Engineering
Nanotechnology Is Molecular Engineering
Scale
Atoms
Molecules
A Genealogy of Nanotechnology
Research Frontiers
Atomic and Molecular Sensors
Buckytubes and Other Nanotubes
Reverse Engineering Biological Motors
Biomolecules for Computation
Directed Evolution of Molecules and Software
Molecular Computation
Artificial Cellularization
I Mostly Inside
2 In-Vivo Nanoscope and the "Two-Week Revolution"
In-Vivo Nanoscope
Pre-Assembler Nanotechnology
The "Two-Week Revolution"
What, no learning curve?
Bugs, Bugs, Bugs
A Counterargument
Tools for Design-Ahead
Questions of Degree
Conclusions
Acknowledgment
3 Cosmetic Nanosurgery
The Beauty Business
The Market Potential
Applications of Cosmetic Nanosurgery
Hair Color
Skin Color
Baldness
Unwanted Hair
A Permanent Breath Freshener
Wrinkle Repair
Slender Now
Techniques and Strategies
Foiling the Immune System
Sensory Equipment
Intercommunications
Licensing
Economics
Distant Prospects
Nonsurgical Nanomachine-based Cosmetics
The Total Makeover
4 Diamond Teeth
Losing Teeth
Saving and Replacing Teeth in the 1990s
Dental Care in the Nanofuture
Diamond Jaws
II Mostly Outside
5 Early Applications
An Opening Selection
Changing Lives
Nanomachinery
Scale
Shape
Processing Power
Communication
Energy
Construction
Material Properties
Bulk
Solidity
Shape
Optical Properties
Force
Summary
6 The Companion: A Very Personal Computer
A New Dawn
Purpose and Scope
Design Characteristics
Appearance
Technical Details
Frames
Audiovisuals
Computing
Communications
Power
Interface
Library
Data Bases
Knowledge Bases
Additional Features
Alternatives
Marketing and Costs
Social Impact
Media
Politics
Everyday Life
Handicap Assistance
Barriers and Breakthroughs
Technical
Social
2020 Vision
7 Trivial (Uses of) Nanotechnology
Trivial?
Gasoline Trees and Roving Real Estate
Home Appliances
Health Assurance
What Work?
Real Wealth
8 Nanotech Hobbies
An Abundance of Hobbies
Model Railroads
Philately
Numismatics
Copying Issues
Gardening
Home Crafts
Thrill Seeking and Blood Sports
Thrill Rides
Amusement Park Attractions
Premise and Conclusion
III Windows and Environments
9 Phased Array Optics
The Future In Sight
Theory
Design
Data Management
Phased Arrays vs. Holography
Simulated Incoherence
Color
Transparent Arrays
The Recording Problem
High-Power Arrays
Invisibility Suits
Front-Projection Images
Eyeing The Future
10 Utility Fog: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
Sufficiently Advanced
A Pail of Air
The Roads Must Roll
What Computers Can't Do
Monsters from the Id
With Folded Hands
From Earth to Moon
The Shape of Things to Come
Rossum's Universal Robots
The Mightiest Machine
Marooned in Realtime
The Ophiuchi Hotline
The Rest of the Robots
Tunnel in the Sky
The Cold Equations
Postscript
Contributors
Notes
Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Nanotechnology refers to engineering at the atomic level, and though barely in its infancy has inspired visions of societal transformation on a scale of the industrial and informational revolutions. This book seeks to introduce the general public to these visions of manipulation of both human anatomy and the material world at large, and the potential of nanotechnology "to determine the quality and character of our lives." Like many works in this growing genre it is directly descended from Popular Science cover stories of the 1950s and 1960s designed to excite as much as educate the reader about the wonders that science and technology held in store for the future. Just as many of those visions ("electricity too cheap to meter") failed to materialize, it is equally unlikely that the visions in this book--"utility fog" capable of simulating "the physical existence of almost any object," "holodeck"-like phased-array optics, diamond teeth, and gasoline-producing trees--will come to pass as described. Assertions that "worlds of previously unimaginable material abundance are within our reach" betray a naivete as to the dynamic interplay of economics and sociology in technological innovation. A full and thoughtful analysis of the implications of nanotechnology for the public and for policy makers remains to be written. General readers; lower-division undergraduates. L. W. Moore formerly, University of Kentucky