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_q(e-book : PDF)
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_q(hardback)
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_q(paperback)
024 7 _a10.1201/b16957
_2doi
035 _a(OCoLC)880825194
040 _aFlBoTFG
_cFlBoTFG
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050 4 _aT174.7
_b.N35825 2014
082 0 4 _a620.5
_bN186
245 0 0 _aNanoscience and nanoengineering :
_badvances and applications /
_cedited by Ajit D. Kelkar, Daniel J.C. Herr, James G. Ryan.
264 1 _aBoca Raton :
_bTaylor & Francis,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _asection 1. Nanoelectronics -- section 2. Nanobio -- section 3. Nano medicine -- section 4. Nanomodeling -- section 5. Nanolithography and nanofabrication -- section 6. Nanosafety.
520 _aPreface The scientific prefix nano means one billionth. Therefore, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter, a nanosecond is one billionth of a second and so on. Clusters of atoms and molecules have dimensions in the order a a few nanometers. For example, the diameter of a carbon nanotube is approximately two nanometers and a typical DNA molecule is a little over two nanometers wide. Nanotechnology is often defined as the scientific and engineering know-how to control the arrangement of atoms and molecules enabling novel applications with customized properties. Most formal definitions of nanotechnology usually cites a size upper bound of one hundred nanometers (100 nm). Particles, features, structures, devices, et cetera, that have dimensions less than 100 nm are referred to as nano, but in many technologies, this cutoff is arbitrary and it is often useful to view structures larger than 100 nm as nanotechnology as well. In order to provide perspective to the reader, it is good to think of the dimensions that nanotechnologists work with compared to objects in the macroscopic world. The two comparisons that I often use to explain relative sizes are that 100 nm is roughly 1000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. I also explain that approximately one million carbon nanotubes could be lined up side to side across the diameter of the head of a pin. People have used nanotechnology for hundreds of years but it is only in the last fifty years or so that the drive for miniaturization and the ability to manipulate nanoscale particles, fibers, films and structures has created a technology revolution. Early use of nanoparticles can be seen in the stained glass windows of gothic cathedrals, dichroic glass and in photography--
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650 0 _aNanotechnology.
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700 1 _aKelkar, A.
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700 1 _aHerr, Daniel J. C.,
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700 1 _aRyan, James G.,
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776 0 8 _iPrint version:
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