Authors |
Preface |
Acknowledgment |
Background to nanotechnology / 1: |
Scientific revolutions / 1.1: |
Types of nanotechnology and nanomachines / 1.2: |
The periodic table / 1.3: |
Atomic structure / 1.4: |
Molecules and phases / 1.5: |
Energy / 1.6: |
Molecular and atomic size / 1.7: |
Surfaces and dimensional space / 1.8: |
Top down and bottom up / 1.9: |
Exercises / 1.10: |
References / 1.11: |
Molecular nanotechnology / 2: |
Atoms by inference / 2.1: |
Electron microscopes / 2.2: |
Scanning electron microscope / 2.3: |
Modern transmission electron microscope / 2.4: |
Scanning probe microscopy--atomic force microscope / 2.5: |
Scanning tunnelling microscope / 2.6: |
Nanomanipulator / 2.7: |
Nanotweezers / 2.8: |
Atom manipulation / 2.9: |
Nanodots / 2.10: |
Self assembly / 2.11: |
Dip pen nanolithography / 2.12: |
Nanopowders and nanomaterials / 2.13: |
What are nanomaterials? / 3.1: |
Preparation / 3.2: |
Plasma arcing / 3.3: |
Chemical vapour deposition / 3.4: |
Sol-gels / 3.5: |
Silica gels |
Hydrolysis |
Condensation and polymerisation of monomers to form particles |
Zirconia and yttrium gels |
Aluminosilicate gels |
Forming nanostructured surfaces using the sol-gel process |
Trapping by sol-gels |
Electrodeposition / 3.6: |
Ball milling / 3.7: |
Using natural nanoparticles / 3.8: |
Applications of nanomaterials / 3.9: |
Insulation materials |
Machine tools |
Phosphors |
Batteries |
High power magnets |
Motor vehicles and aircraft |
Medical implants |
Other medical uses |
The carbon age / 3.10: |
New forms of carbon / 4.1: |
Types of nanotubes / 4.2: |
Formation of nanotubes / 4.3: |
Methods and reactants |
Arcing in the presence of cobalt |
Laser methods |
Chemical vapour deposition method |
Other methods |
Assemblies / 4.4: |
Purification of carbon nanotubes / 4.5: |
The properties of nanotubes / 4.6: |
Conductivity |
Strength and elasticity |
Uses of nanotubes / 4.7: |
Electronics |
Hydrogen storage |
Materials |
Mechanical machines |
Space elevators |
Molecular mimics / 4.8: |
Catenanes and rotaxanes / 5.1: |
Molecular switches / 5.2: |
The electron driven molecular shuttle switch / 5.3: |
The pH driven molecular shuttle switch / 5.4: |
The light driven molecular shuttle switch / 5.5: |
Synthesis of rotaxanes and catenanes / 5.6: |
Rotaxanes and molecular computers / 5.7: |
Chemical rotors / 5.8: |
Prodders / 5.9: |
Flippers / 5.10: |
Atom shuttles / 5.11: |
Actuators / 5.12: |
Contacts / 5.13: |
Nanobiometrics / 5.14: |
Introduction / 6.1: |
Lipids as nano- bricks and mortar / 6.2: |
Lipid structure |
Self-organising supramolecular structures |
Things to do with lipids--templates |
Same but different: self-assembled monolayers / 6.3: |
The bits that do things--proteins / 6.4: |
Three-dimensional structures using a 20 amino acid alphabet |
Nanoscale motors |
Biological computing--a protein-based 3D optical memory based on bacteriorhodopsin |
Ion channels as sensors |
Structure is information--DNA / 6.5: |
What is DNA? |
Using DNA to build nano-cubes and hinges |
DNA as smart glue |
Wiring up the nanoworld: DNA as wire template |
A biological nanotechnological future / 6.6: |
Optics, photonics and solar energy / 6.7: |
Properties of light and nanotechnology / 7.1: |
Reflectance of light |
Transmission of light |
Polarisation |
Radiation |
Interaction of light and nanotechnology / 7.2: |
Photon trapping and plasmons |
Dielectric constant and polarisation |
Refractive index |
Nanoholes and photons / 7.3: |
Imaging / 7.4: |
New low cost energy efficient windows and solar absorbers based on nanoparticles / 7.5: |
Nanometals |
Nanotechnology and daylight |
Solar cells, nanoparticles and nanostructures |
Optically useful nanostructured polymers |
Photonic crystals, surface wave guides and control of light paths / 7.6: |
Nanoelectronics / 7.7: |
What will nanoelectronics do for us? / 8.1: |
The birth of electronics / 8.3: |
Semiconductors |
The invention of the transistor |
Integrated circuits |
The tools of micro- and nanofabrication / 8.4: |
Optical lithography |
Electron beam lithography |
Atomic lithography |
Molecular beam epitaxy |
From classical to quantum physics / 8.5: |
Quantum electronic devices / 8.6: |
High electron mobility transistors |
Quantum interference transistor |
Single electron transistors |
Quantum corrals in electronics |
Carbon nanotube transistors |
Molecular electronics |
DNA-directed assembly and application in electronics |
Quantum information and quantum computers / 8.7: |
How is a quantum computer different to a classical computer? |
How does a quantum computer work? |
Writing to an idealised atomic-quantum computer |
Read-out from an idealised atomic-quantum computer |
Quantum computation |
Decoherence--the enemy of quantum computation |
The power of quantum computation |
Power of a classical computer |
Power of a quantum computer |
Quantum algorithms |
Shor's algorithm |
Grover's algorithm |
Experimental implementations of quantum computers / 8.8: |
Future applications / 8.9: |
Microelectromechanical systems / 9.1: |
Robots--how small can they go? / 9.2: |
Ageless materials / 9.3: |
Invisible mending of atomic dislocations inside damaged materials / 9.4: |
Nanomechanics and nanoelasticity / 9.5: |
Nanoparticle coatings--special new effects / 9.6: |
Nanoelectronic and magnetic devices and new computing systems / 9.7: |
Optoelectronic devices / 9.8: |
Light emitting diodes |
Thermionic solar power |
Environmental applications / 9.9: |
Into the realms of imagination / 9.10: |
Communication / 10.1: |
Manufacturing / 10.3: |
Active materials and swarms |
Nanomedicine / 10.4: |
Society and ethics / 10.5: |
Religion and making everything from everything else / 10.6: |
Thanks for all the fish / 10.7: |
Index / 10.8: |
Authors |
Preface |
Acknowledgment |
Background to nanotechnology / 1: |
Scientific revolutions / 1.1: |
Types of nanotechnology and nanomachines / 1.2: |