Nanoscience

There is an invisible revolution going on. As nature reconfigures the chemical elements to orchestrate the components oflife, we too are learning to form new materials with astonishing properties. This is enabling us to gain a new control overthe forces of light, electrical and chemical energy. As all of this is happening at the nano-scale, the revolution is invisible,as the atoms and molecules, that comprise its ingredients, are much smaller than the wavelengths of visible light.We...
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There is an invisible revolution going on. As nature reconfigures the chemical elements to orchestrate the components oflife, we too are learning to form new materials with astonishing properties. This is enabling us to gain a new control overthe forces of light, electrical and chemical energy. As all of this is happening at the nano-scale, the revolution is invisible,as the atoms and molecules, that comprise its ingredients, are much smaller than the wavelengths of visible light.We are gaining experience in an often counter- intuitive world where gravity is insignificant and Newtonian Laws done(tm)talways apply. Objects and materials done(tm)t behave as we expect, nothing is ever still and everything is electromagneticallye~stickye(tm). New tools and new approaches are needed.In Nanoscience: Invisible powers revealed, fully illustrated throughout, science writer Peter Forbes and sculptor TomGrimsey demonstrate that the phenomena of this realm of science are both visually and intellectually beautiful, and asource for solutions to some of the worlde(tm)s most pressing problems.