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Nano-Society - Pushing the Boundaries of Technology (Hardcover)
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Nano-Society - Pushing the Boundaries of Technology (Hardcover)
Series: Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Series, Volume 8
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Major technology shifts do not happen overnight and rarely are they
the result of a single breakthrough discovery. Nowhere is this more
true than for the broad set of enabling technologies that we have
come to simply call "nanotechnology." Rather than standing on the
shoulders of a few intellectual giants, nanotechnologies are
created by tens of thousands of researchers and scientists working
on minute and sometimes arcane aspects of their fields of expertise
in areas as diverse as medicine, telecommunications, solar cells,
filtration, coatings, or ever smaller transistors for electronic
devices. They come from different sciences, live in different parts
of the world and work for different organizations (government
laboratories, industry laboratories, universities, private research
facilities) and follow their own set of rules - get papers reviewed
and published; achieve scientific recognition from their peers;
struggle to get funding for new ideas; look to make that
breakthrough discovery that leads to the ultimate resumU item - a
nobel prize; get pushed by their funders to secure patent rights
and commercialize new discoveries. This book puts a spotlight on
some of the scientists who are pushing the boundaries of technology
and it gives examples of their work and how they are advancing
knowledge one little step at a time. The book shatters the
monolithic term "nanotechnology" into the myriad of facets that it
really is. It is a journey through the world of nanotechnology
research and development, taking a personal look at how
nanotechnologies get created today and by whom. The book covers 122
specific research projects that are happening in laboratories
around the world and provides commentaries from the scientists in
their own words. However, the collection of stories in this book
barely scratches the surface of the vast and growing body of
research that leads us into the nanotechnology age. The selection
presented in the book is not meant to rank some laboratories and
scientists higher than others, nor to imply that the work
introduced in the book is more important or valuable than all the
work that is not covered. The intention is to give the interested
reader an idea of the incredibly diverse aspects that make up
nanotechnology research and development - the results of which will
bring about a new era of industrial and medical technologies.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology research is a truly
multidisciplinary and international effort. Each of the chapters is
based on a particular scientific paper that has been published in a
peer-reviewed journal and, while each story revolves around one or
two scientists who were interviewed for this book, many, if not
most, of the scientific accomplishments covered in the book are the
result of collaborative efforts by several scientists and research
groups, often from different organizations and from different
countries. The book is different to other books in this field
because it provides a novel human touch to nanotechnology research
by not only covering a wide range of research topics but also the
(often nameless) scientists behind this research. The book is a
collection of Spotlight articles from the popular Nanowerk website
and each article has been crafted with the author(s) of a
scientific paper and signed off by them prior to being posted on
Nanowerk. The book is intended for two broad groups of audiences -
scientists and nanoscience students who want a bite-size, quick
read to get a good first impression of what nanotechnologies are
about and how they affect not only their own field but also
neighbouring fields and other scientific disciplines further away.
And a non-scientific readership that needs to (because it affects
their organization and they have to acquaint themselves with
nanotechnology) or wants to get a 'non-threatening' (i.e. no
formulas, complex diagrams, or unexplained scientific terms)
introduction, written by a non-scientist for non-scientists."
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