Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology RevolutionExamines the field of medicine, toxic waste, and production relating how they will revolutionize life in the future. |
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Page 44
... hard to visualize , hence hard to understand . Scientists working with molecules face this problem today . They can often calculate how molecules will behave , but to understand that behavior , they need more than heaps of numbers ...
... hard to visualize , hence hard to understand . Scientists working with molecules face this problem today . They can often calculate how molecules will behave , but to understand that behavior , they need more than heaps of numbers ...
Page 49
... hard to describe . It is as if the surface were magnetic - it pulls on your fingertip if you move close enough . But the result isn't a sharp click of contact , because the surface isn't hard like a magnet , but strangely soft ...
... hard to describe . It is as if the surface were magnetic - it pulls on your fingertip if you move close enough . But the result isn't a sharp click of contact , because the surface isn't hard like a magnet , but strangely soft ...
Page 67
... hard you push , there's no way to drive your finger through the wall of the pipe . Every few paces along the pipe a fitting juts out , a housing with a mechanically driven rotating thing , exposed to the liquid in- side the pipe , but ...
... hard you push , there's no way to drive your finger through the wall of the pipe . Every few paces along the pipe a fitting juts out , a housing with a mechanically driven rotating thing , exposed to the liquid in- side the pipe , but ...
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The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
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