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| Fantastic voyages | |
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| A new industrial revolution? | |
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| The radical vision of nanotechnology | |
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| Nano everywhere | |
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| Into the nanoworld | |
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| Looking at the nanoworld | |
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| Light microscopy | |
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| Seeing a single (big) molecule | |
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| Other types of waves | |
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| The electron microscope | |
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| Imaging versus scattering | |
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| Scanning probe microscopy | |
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| Living in the nanoworld | |
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| Nanofabrication | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The transistor | |
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| Making integrated circuits | |
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| Moore's law and beyond | |
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| Direct writing | |
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| Cheaper, smaller, more curved-soft lithography | |
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| Making things besides chips-MEMS and NEMS | |
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| The Brownian universe: physics at the nanoscale | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fluid mechanics | |
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| Flying nanobots? | |
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| Brownian motion | |
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| Stickiness | |
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| The mechanical properties of small things | |
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| Quantum effects | |
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| 'Fantastic voyage' revisited | |
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| Making soft machines | |
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| Self-assembly | |
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| Order from disorder | |
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| Soap | |
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| From shoe soles to opals | |
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| Self-assembly and life | |
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| Protein folding | |
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| Nucleic acids | |
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| Living soft machines | |
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| Beyond simple self-assembly | |
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| How molecules evolve | |
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| Copying nature | |
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| Machines and mechanisms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prime movers-engines large and small | |
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| Mechanisms and machines | |
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| Sensors and transducers | |
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| Wetware: chemical computing from bacteria to brains | |
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| Introduction-Galvani and the chemical computer | |
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| Reflex, instinct, and intelligence | |
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| How E. Coli responds to its environment | |
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| The principles of chemical computing | |
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| The social life of cells | |
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| Why big animals needed to develop a longer-ranged signalling mechanism | |
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| Nervous energy | |
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| How brains are different from computers | |
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| Single-molecule electronics | |
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| The green goo catastrophe | |
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| Dyes and photosynthesis | |
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| Clean power for all-non-conventional photovoltaics | |
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| Organic metals and plastic semiconductors | |
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| Roll-up television screens and paint-on lasers | |
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| Plastic logic | |
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| The ups and downs of molecular electronics | |
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| Single molecules as electronic devices | |
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| Integrating single-molecule electronics | |
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| Our nanotechnological future | |
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| Which way for nanotechnology? | |
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| What should we worry about? | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index | |