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- From: ehling@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Teresa A. Ehling)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: "Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives"
- Message-ID: <Dec.17.20.27.30.1992.25461@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 01:27:31 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- Now available from the MIT Press!
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- NANOTECHNOLOGY
- Research and Perspectives
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- edited by BC Crandall and James Lewis
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- Advances in physics, molecular biology, and computer science
- are converging on the capacity to control, with molecular
- precision, the structure and function of matter. These twenty
- original contributions provide the first broad-based
- multidisciplinary definition and examination of the
- revolutionary new discipline of molecular engineering, or
- nanotechnology. They address both the promise as well as the
- economic, environmental, and cultural challenges of this
- emerging atomic-scale technology.
- Leaders in their field describe current technologies that
- feed into nanotechnology -- atomic imaging and positioning,
- protein engineering, and the de novo design and synthesis of
- self-assembling molecular structures. They present
- development strategies for coordinating recent work in
- chemistry, biotechnology, and scanning-probe microscopy in
- order to successfully design and engineer molecular systems.
- They also explore advances in molecular and quantum
- electronics as well as reversible computational systems and
- the fundamental physical constraints on computation.
- Additional chapters discuss research efforts in Japan and
- present the prospects of nanotechnology as seen from the
- perspective of a microtechnologist.
- The final section looks at the implications of success,
- including the prospects of enormous computational power and
- the radical consequences of molecular mechanical systems in
- the fields of medicine and life extension.
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- Contributors: Robert Birge. Federico Capasso. BC Crandall.
- K. Eric Drexler. Gregory Fahy. Richard Feynman. John Foster.
- Tracy Handel. Bill Joy. Arthur Kantrowitz. Joseph Mallon.
- Norman Margolus. Ralph Merkle. Lester Milbrath. Gordon
- Tullock. Hiroyuki Sasabe. Michael Ward.
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- ISBN 0-262-03195-7 CRANH
- 381 pp. -- 136 illus., 29 in color
- $39.95, hardcover
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