Overview
- Editors:
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Thomas Tsakalakos
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Department of Ceramic & Materials Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
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Ilya A. Ovid’ko
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Institute of Problems for Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Asuri K. Vasudevan
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Materials Division, Office of Naval Research Arlington, Arlington, USA
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Table of contents (40 papers)
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Applications of Nanostructures
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- T. Tsakalakos, R. L. Lehman, T. N. Nosker, J. D. Idol, R. Renfree, J. Lynch et al.
Pages 675-689
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Back Matter
Pages 691-694
About this book
The Advanced Study Institute on Synthesis, Functional Properties and Applications of Nanostructures, held at the Knossos Royal Village, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 26, 2002 - August 4, 2002, successfully reviewed the state-of-the-art of nanostructures and nanotechnology. It was concluded that Nanotechnology is widely agreed to be the research focus that will lead to the next generation of breakthroughs in science and engineering. There are three cornerstones to the expectation that Nanotechnology will yield revolutionary advances in understanding and application: • Breakthroughs in properties that arise from materials fabricated from the nanoscale. • Synergistic behavior that arise from the combination of disparate types of materials (soft vs. hard, organic vs. inorganic, chemical vs. biological vs. solid state) at the nanoscale. • Exploitation of natural (e.g. chemical and biological) assembly mechanisms that can accomplish structural control at the nanoscale. It is expected that this will lead to paradigms for assembling bio-inspired functional systems that accomplish desirable properties that are either unavailable or prohibitively expensive using top-down approaches.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Ceramic & Materials Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA
Thomas Tsakalakos
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Institute of Problems for Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
Ilya A. Ovid’ko
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Materials Division, Office of Naval Research Arlington, Arlington, USA
Asuri K. Vasudevan