Nanotechnology: Research and Perspectives : Papers from the First Foresight Conference on NanotechnologyB. C. Crandall, James Lewis Advances in physics, molecular biology, and computer science are converging on the capacity to control, with molecular precision, the structure and function of matter. These twenty original contributions provide the first broad-based multidisciplinary definition and examination of the revolutionary new discipline of molecular engineering, or nanotechnology. They address both the promise as well as the economic, environmental, and cultural challenges of this emerging atomic-scale technology. Leaders in their field describe current technologies that feed into nanotechnology - atomic imaging and positioning, protein engineering, and the de novo, design and synthesis of self-assembling molecular structures. They present development strategies for coordinating recent work in chemistry, biotechnology, and scanning-probe microscopy in order to successfully design and engineer molecular systems. They also explore advances in molecular and quantum electronics as well as reversible computational systems and the fundamental physical constraints on computation. Additional chapters discuss research efforts in Japan and present the prospects of nanotechnology as seen from the perspective of a microtechnologist. The final section looks at the implications of success, including the prospects of enormous computational power and the radical consequences of molecular mechanical systems in the fields of medicine and life extension. Contributors |
Contents
Atomic Imaging and Positioning | 15 |
Design and Characterization of 4Helix Bundle Proteins | 37 |
Progress toward | 105 |
Molecular Electronics | 149 |
Quantum Transistors and Integrated Circuits | 171 |
Fundamental Physical Constraints on the Computational | 199 |
Nanotechnology from a Micromachinists Point of View | 215 |
What Major Problems Need to Be Overcome to Design and Build | 241 |
The Future of Computation | 269 |
The Risks of Nanotechnology | 287 |
The Weapon of Openness | 303 |
Appendix A Machines of Inner Space | 325 |
Contributors | 365 |
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