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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792209803321

Autore

Deffeyes Kenneth S

Titolo

Nanoscale : Visualizing an Invisible World

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : The MIT Press, 2011

ISBN

0-262-32252-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (144 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DeffeyesStephen E

Disciplina

539.7

Soggetti

Science

Molecular structure

Nanostructures

Crystallography

Nanoscience

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Air ; 2 Ice and Water Vapor ; 3 Gold ; 4 Chemical Bonds ; 5 Sodium Chloride ; 6 Diamond ; 7 Hexagonal Diamond ; 8 Nanotubes and Buckyballs ; 9 Asbestos ; 10 Pyroxene ; 11 Amino Acids ; 12 Phosphate ; 13 Alpha Helix and Beta Sheet ; 14 Lysozyme ; 15 Drugs ; 16 Hemoglobin ; 17 Chlorophyll ; 18 Urease ; 19 Lipid Membrane ; 20 Rod Virus ; 21 Icosahedra Virus ; 22 Unit Cell Discovery ; 23 Twinned Crystals ; 24 Calcite Twinning ; 25 Calcite Twin Plane ; 26 Dolomite Twin Plane ; 27 Quartz ; 28 Close-Packed Metals ; 29 Screw Dislocation ; 30 Erionite ; 31 Faujasite

32 Lubricants 33 Montmorillonite ; 34 Perovskite Morph ; 35 Perovskite Superconductor ; 36 Silicon Diode ; 37 Fuel Cell ; 38 Laser Crystals ; 39 Supercapacitor ; 40 Epitaxial Growth ; 41 Memristor ; 42 Ferromagnetism ; 43 Rare Earth Magnets ; 44 Flash Memory ; 45 Metallic Glass ; 46 Spinodal Decomposition ; 47 Diamantane ; 48 Penrose Tiling ; 49 Penrose Diffraction ; 50 Quasicrystal ; Notes; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

A tour through a world too small to see with a microscope: air, ice, diamonds, aspirin, fuel cells, and other structures viewed and described in the scale of nanometers.