Introduction to Nanoscience

Lindsay, S. M

Introduction to Nanoscience - Oxford Oxford University Press 2010 - 457

Nanoscience is not physics, chemistry, engineering or biology. It is all of them, and it is time for a text that integrates the disciplines. This is such a text, aimed at advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in the sciences. The consequences of smallness and quantum behaviour are well known and described Richard Feynman's visionary essay 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom' (which is reproduced in this book). Another, critical, but thus far neglected, aspectof nanoscience is the complexity of nanostructures. Hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of atoms make up sys

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