Synopses & Reviews
Recent advances in scanning-probe technology, in optical technology (optical "tweezers"), and in solution-phase chemistry now enable us to manipulate individual atoms and molecules. It is thus becoming possible not only to build machines at the scale of integrated electronic circuits and circuits with "wires" no thicker than an atom, but also to manipulate biological tissues and materials at the scale of individual cells, organelles, and even molecules. The implications of this technology are profound: for computer technology, for electromechanical sensors and actuators, for materials science and manufacturing, and for biomedical engineering.||The molecular machines of living organisms provide the paradigm for the discussion in this text. It thus emphasizes chemical physics, particularly solution-phase chemistry, as a basis for understanding the assembly of molecular machines. In addition, the book discusses the proximity-probe methods and bioengineering associated with understanding and designing devices at nanometer scales.||"Molecular Nantechnology " will be of interest to physicists, chemists, materials scientists, biological physicists, computer scientists, and manufacturing engineers.||From the reviews:||¿[Provides] an intuitive, scientific framework for understanding nanoscale systems . . . Rietman had organized the book around his precept that ¿solution-phase chemistry and protein engineering will bootstrap us into the first phase of nanotechnology.¿ . . . Useful for those who might need a basic introduction to some of the important issues in nanotechnology and the influence of the chemical and biological science on the nanotechnology revolution . . . Those seeking a qualitative picture of nanoscale systems engineering will find it a useful reference.¿|-Physics Today
Review
"...Provides an intuitive, scientific framework for understanding nanoscale systems. Rietman had organized the book around his precept that "solution-phase chemistry and protein engineering will bootstrap us into the first phase of nanotechnology."... Useful for those who might need a basic introduction to some of the important issues in nanotechnology and the influence of the chemical and biological science on the nanotechnology revolution. Those seeking a qualitative picture of nanoscale systems engineering will find it a useful reference." PHYSICS TODAY, August 2002 From the reviews:||"[Provides] an intuitive, scientific framework for understanding nanoscale systems . . . Rietman had organized the book around his precept that 'solution-phase chemistry and protein engineering will bootstrap us into the first phase of nanotechnology.' . . . Useful for those who might need a basic introduction to some of the important issues in nanotechnology and the influence of the chemical and biological science on the nanotechnology revolution . . . Those seeking a qualitative picture of nanoscale systems engineering will find it a useful reference."|-Physics Today PHYSICS TODAY "...the choice of topics and the order of their presentation appear to be well thought out...the book should be useful to those who might need a basic introduction to some of the important issues in nanotechnology and the influences of the chemical and biological sciences on the nanotechnology revolution...Those seeking a qualitative picture of nanoscale systems engineering will find MOLECULAR ENGINEERING OF NANOSYSTEMS a useful reference."
Synopsis
Recent advances in technology, physics, chemistry, and biology are all converging to provide the methodology for molecular nanotechnology. This book provides the professional with an overview of current methodologies for implementing the technology. 140 illus.
Synopsis
Molecular nanotechnology is an emerging technology that allows us to build materials and systems with atomic and molecular precision by manipulating atoms and molecules at very small scales. The implications of this technology are great: continued revolutions in computer chip technology, new and stronger materials for manufacturing, and highly precise medical instruments. These and other advances in technologies, physics, chemistry and biology are converging to provide the methodology for molecular technology. This book provides the professional with an overview of current methodologies for implementing the technology.
Synopsis
Molecular nanotechnology is an emerging technology that allows us to build materials and systems with atomic and molecular precision by manipulating atoms and molecules at very small scales, ultimately at the single molecule scale. Since the properties of materials depend on how their atoms are arranged, the ability to manipulate atoms and molecules at the nano-scale will allow us to create new materials, to improve current materials, and to build systems heretofore only dreamt of. The implications of this technology are great: continued revolutions in computer chip technology, continued revolutions in manufacturing, new and stronger materials, and highly precise medical instruments and treatments. It is only recently that advances in scanning probe microscopy, biotechnology (mainly protein and genetic engineering), and solution-phase chemistry have been defined as tools to implement the technology. These and other advances in the technologies of physics, chemistry and biology are converging to provide the methodology for a molecular-scale technology. Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems provides the professional with an overview of current methodologies in the field, with emphasis on the implementation of current research.
Synopsis
Provides the professional with an overview of current methodologies in the field, with emphasis on the implementation of current research.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-243) and index.
Table of Contents
1) Enabling Technologies for Molecular Nanosystems; 2) Solution Phase Chemistry; 3) Dynamics of Brownian Assembly; 4) Molecular Systems by Brownian Assembly; 5) Large Secondary Bonded Systems; 6) DNA and Protein Engineering