nature (biomimetics), and utilize the full potential of tiny carbon nanotubes. The possibilities may seem like science fiction - a space station tethered to Earth by cables of giant molecules, tiny molecular vehicles carrying and dispensing drugs in our bodies, smart materials that adjust
automatically to optimize our comfort, minute computers utilizing the information storage capacity of DNA - but they are the subjects of cutting edge research.
Walter Gratzer gives a fascinating account of the discovery and variety of giant molecules, how they come to have their remarkable properties, and how these are used by Nature and increasingly by us, pausing now and again to tell of some of the remarkable characters involved in their discovery and development.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780199562138
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-956213-8
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- Erscheinungstermin: 26.05.2011
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2011
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 289 g
- Seiten: 268
- Format (B x H x T): 129 x 198 x 15 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
- Vorauflage: 978-0-19-955002-9