Toward a New Dimension
Exploring the Nanoscale
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 August 2014
- ISBN 9780198714613
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages228 pages
- Size 247x178x20 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 34 b/w illustrations 0
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Short description:
This book presents key historical moments in the birth and evolution of nanoscience in the last thirty years. It narrates the genesis of revolutionary instruments and new species of molecule size objects.
MoreLong description:
Over the course of the last thirty years, the investigation of objects at the nano scale has rocketed. Nanoscale scientific research has not only powerfully affected the amount and orientation of knowledge, it has perhaps even more significantly redirected the ways in which much research work is carried out, changed scientists' methodology and reasoning processes, and influenced aspects of the structure of career trajectory and the functioning of scientific disciplines.
This book identifies key historical moments and episodes in the birth and evolution of nanoscience, discusses the novel repertory of epistemological concerns of practitioners, and signals sociological propensities. As Galileo's telescope explored the moon's surface four hundred years ago, nano instrumentation now makes it possible to see the surface of single molecules. Moreover, practitioners are able to manipulate individual atoms and molecules at will to produce pre-designed synthetic materials, non-existent in nature. The combinatorial of heightened observational capacity and the tailoring of synthetic artificial materials exhibiting hitherto novel physical properties has widened and transformed the worlds of scientific knowledge and technical artefact. This book invites the question: to what extent does nanoscale scientific research constitute a kind of 'scientific revolution'?
This book is a very good starting point for anyone who wants to comprehend the recent explosion of work at the nano level, appreciate how a new area of science has emerged with its own unique methods and startling new understanding of the atomic world, or glimpse the possibilities of technologies for designing and controlling materials at the atomic level. ... Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Mainstays of nanoscale research
Worlds of nanophysics
The scale of life?
Epistemological frames and practices
The role of combinatorials in structuring NSR cognitive trajectories
Which disciplinarity for nanoscale research?
General conclusion
