Engines of Creation
Title | Engines of Creation PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Drexler |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 1987-09-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0385199732 |
This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.
Engines of Creation
Title | Engines of Creation PDF eBook |
Author | K. Eric Drexler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | High technology |
ISBN | 9781857024869 |
Radical Abundance
Title | Radical Abundance PDF eBook |
Author | K. Eric Drexler |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1610391144 |
K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology -- the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy and environment. Already, scientists have constructed prototypes for circuit boards built of millions of precisely arranged atoms. The advent of this kind of atomic precision promises to change the way we make things -- cleanly, inexpensively, and on a global scale. It allows us to imagine a world where solar arrays cost no more than cardboard and aluminum foil, and laptops cost about the same. A provocative tour of cutting edge science and its implications by the field's founder and master, Radical Abundance offers a mind-expanding vision of a world hurtling toward an unexpected future.
Soft Machines
Title | Soft Machines PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Anthony Lewis Jones |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 238 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0198528558 |
Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information but is their vision realistic? 'Soft Machines' explains why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world that we are all familar with and shows how it has more in common with biology than conventional engineering.
Nanosystems
Title | Nanosystems PDF eBook |
Author | K. Eric Drexler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN |
By manipulating common molecules at high frequency, molecular manufacturing will make these products quickly, inexpensively, and on a large scale. Molecular manufacturing is the key to implementing molecular nanotechnologies, building systems to complex atomic specifications.".
Bioinformatics
Title | Bioinformatics PDF eBook |
Author | M. H. Fulekar |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2009-03-24 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1402088809 |
Bioinformatics, computational biology, is a relatively new field that applies computer science and information technology to biology. In recent years, the discipline of bioinformatics has allowed biologists to make full use of the advances in Computer sciences and Computational statistics for advancing the biological data. Researchers in life sciences generate, collect and need to analyze an increasing number of different types of scientific data, DNA, RNA and protein sequences, in-situ and microarray gene expression including 3D protein structures and biological pathways. This book is aiming to provide information on bioinformatics at various levels. The chapters included in this book cover introductory to advanced aspects, including applications of various documented research work and specific case studies related to bioinformatics. This book will be of immense value to readers of different backgrounds such as engineers, scientists, consultants and policy makers for industry, government, academics and social and private organisations.
Introduction to Nanoscience
Title | Introduction to Nanoscience PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Lindsay |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2009-10-22 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0191609277 |
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, aspect of nanoscience is the complexity of nanostructures. Hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of atoms make up systems that are complex enough to show what is fashionably called 'emergent behaviour'. Quite new phenomena arise from rare configurations of the system. Examples are the Kramer's theory of reactions (Chapter 3), the Marcus theory of electron transfer (Chapter 8), and enzyme catalysis, molecular motors, and fluctuations in gene expression and splicing, all covered in the final Chapter on Nanobiology. The book is divided into three parts. Part I (The Basics) is a self-contained introduction to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and chemical kinetics, calling on no more than basic college calculus. A conceptual approach and an array of examples and conceptual problems will allow even those without the mathematical tools to grasp much of what is important. Part II (The Tools) covers microscopy, single molecule manipulation and measurement, nanofabrication and self-assembly. Part III (Applications) covers electrons in nanostructures, molecular electronics, nano-materials and nanobiology. Each chapter starts with a survey of the required basics, but ends by making contact with current research literature.