Lessons from the past
โ Scribed by Sumitra Rajagopalan
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1369-7021
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
With clouds of fumes bursting from her pot and steam puffs screeching out of her ears, a witch stirs her poisonous brew. After a few seconds, a caption appears: 'Making Materials: The Old Way'. Next slide: a submicroscopic image of a self-assembled material with tiny clusters perfectly arranged along the surface. Nearby, a neatly-attired chemist tinkers with a sophisticated probe ready to pattern biomolecules onto the surface. The caption: 'Making Materials: The New Way'. Thus begins my introductory lecture in nanoscience.
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