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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... Scientists and engineers still have no direct , convenient way to control molecules , basically because human hands are about 10 mil- lion times too large . Today , chemists and materials scientists make molecular structures indirectly ...
... Scientists and engineers still have no direct , convenient way to control molecules , basically because human hands are about 10 mil- lion times too large . Today , chemists and materials scientists make molecular structures indirectly ...
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... scientists from what they once saw as their responsibility : presenting the content and methods of science to a ... scientists to become more involved , but the social pressures in the research community are heavily in the other ...
... scientists from what they once saw as their responsibility : presenting the content and methods of science to a ... scientists to become more involved , but the social pressures in the research community are heavily in the other ...
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... scientists make new superconduc- tors , semiconductors , and structural materials by mixing and crush- ing and ... scientists have never tested so many materials . With nanoinstruments and nano- computers , they could . One laboratory ...
... scientists make new superconduc- tors , semiconductors , and structural materials by mixing and crush- ing and ... scientists have never tested so many materials . With nanoinstruments and nano- computers , they could . One laboratory ...
Contents
The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
Copyright | |
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