Soft machines : (Record no. 20218)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | VRT |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 081221s2004 enka |b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0198528558 |
| 039 #9 - LEVEL OF BIBLIOGRAPHIC CONTROL AND CODING DETAIL [OBSOLETE] | |
| Level of rules in bibliographic description | 201402040115 |
| Level of effort used to assign nonsubject heading access points | VLOAD |
| Level of effort used to assign subject headings | 201105091257 |
| Level of effort used to assign classification | malmash |
| Level of effort used to assign subject headings | 200812210946 |
| Level of effort used to assign classification | Noora |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | T174.7 |
| Item number | .J66 2004 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Jones, Richard A. L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Richard Anthony Lewis), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1961- |
| 9 (RLIN) | 43577 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Soft machines : |
| Remainder of title | nanotechnology and life / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Richard A.L. Jones. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2004. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | viii, 229 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc. note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-223) and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 1. Fantastic Voyages; 2. Looking at the Nanoworld; 3. Nanofabrication; 4. The Brownian universe: physics at the nanoscale; 5. Making soft machines; 6. Machines and mechanisms; 7. Wetware: chemical computing from bacteria to brains; 8. Single molecule electronics; 9. Further reading |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Enthusiasts look forward to a time when tiny machines reassemble matter and process information with unparalleled power and precision. But is their vision realistic? Where is the science heading? As nanotechnology (a new technology that many believe will transform society in the next one hundred years) rises higher in the news agenda and popular consciousness, there is a real need for a book which discusses clearly the science on which this technology will be based. Whilst it is most easy to simply imagine these tiny machines as scaled-down versions of the macroscopic machines we are all familiar with, the way things behave on small scales is quite different to the way they behave on large scales. Engineering on the nanoscale will use very different principles to those we are used to in our everyday lives, and the materials used in nanotehnology will be soft and mutable, rather than hard and unyielding. Soft Machines explains in a lively and very accessible manner why the nanoworld is so different to the macro-world which we are all familiar with. Why does nature engineer things in the way it does, and how can we learn to use these unfamiliar principles to create valuable new materials and artefacts which will have a profound effect on medicine, electronics, energy and the environment in the twenty-first century. With a firmer understanding of the likely relationship between nanotechnology and nature itself, we can gain a much clearer notion of what dangers this powerful technology may potentially pose, as well as come to realise that nanotechnology will have more in common with biology than with conventional engineering. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Nanotechnology. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 2813 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Library of Congress Classification | Library | Library | First Floor | 21/12/2024 | T174.7 .J66 2004 | 10317 | 21/12/2024 | 1 | 21/12/2024 | Books |