Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives

by B.C. Crandall and James Lewis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262031957
• ISBN13: 9780262031950
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher