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Soft machines : nanotechnology and life / Richard A.L. Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Richard A. L. (Richard Anthony Lewis), 1961- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nanotechnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (238 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information but is their vision realistic? 'Soft Machines' explains why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world that we are all familar with and shows how it has more in common with biology than conventional engineering.
- Contents:
- Contents; 1 Fantastic voyages; 2 Looking at the nanoworld; 3 Nanofabrication; 4 The Brownian universe: physics at the nanoscale; 5 Making soft machines; 6 Machines and mechanisms; 7 Wetware: chemical computing from bacteria to brains; 8 Single-molecule electronics; 9 Our nanotechnological future; Further reading; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2004.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-02472-3
- 1-281-34611-X
- 0-19-156724-8
- OCLC:
- 476260360
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