Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology RevolutionA comprehensive, easy-to-understand handbook that explains what nanotechnology is and how it will revolutionize life in the future. The world's leading expert in the field, Drexler also examines the spectacular accomplishments that might result from a breakthrough: elimination of disease and pollution. 20 illustrations. |
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... atoms , a full million . This block looks strangely familiar , with its rods , crank , and the rest . It's a nanocomputer — or rather , a blocklike part of a nanocomputer still under construction . Standing alongside the pieces of ...
... atoms , a full million . This block looks strangely familiar , with its rods , crank , and the rest . It's a nanocomputer — or rather , a blocklike part of a nanocomputer still under construction . Standing alongside the pieces of ...
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... ATOMS ? To those thinking in terms of nanotechnology , STMs immedi- ately looked promising not only for seeing atoms and molecules but for manipulating them . This idea soon became widespread among physicists . As Calvin Quate stated in ...
... ATOMS ? To those thinking in terms of nanotechnology , STMs immedi- ately looked promising not only for seeing atoms and molecules but for manipulating them . This idea soon became widespread among physicists . As Calvin Quate stated in ...
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... atoms even further , bringing a splash of publicity . Admittedly , the story must have been hard to resist : It was accompanied by an STM picture of the name “ IBM , ” spelled out with thirty - five precisely placed atoms ( Figure 5 ) ...
... atoms even further , bringing a splash of publicity . Admittedly , the story must have been hard to resist : It was accompanied by an STM picture of the name “ IBM , ” spelled out with thirty - five precisely placed atoms ( Figure 5 ) ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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