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Nanoscience
P Forbes
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Description for Nanoscience
Hardcover. Explores the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding cost-effective methods to desalinate sea water, to the production of smart materials that alter their shape, texture or other properties when coming into contact with electric or magnetic fields. Num Pages: 192 pages, full colour throughout, includes photographs, includes illustrations. BIC Classification: PDR; PDZ; TBN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 273 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1110.
Nanoscience is the fastest growing and most significant area of scientific exploration of our time In Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal, award-winning science writer Peter Forbes and sculptor Tom Grimsey explore the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding cost-effective methods to desalinate sea water, to the production of smart materials that alter their shape, texture or other properties when coming into contact with electric or magnetic fields. Nanoscience shows the astonishing beauty of the nanoworld, the iridescense of butterfly wings or peacock feathers that is produced not by pigments but by structures invisible ... Read more
Nanoscience is the fastest growing and most significant area of scientific exploration of our time In Nanoscience: Giants of the Infinitesimal, award-winning science writer Peter Forbes and sculptor Tom Grimsey explore the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding cost-effective methods to desalinate sea water, to the production of smart materials that alter their shape, texture or other properties when coming into contact with electric or magnetic fields. Nanoscience shows the astonishing beauty of the nanoworld, the iridescense of butterfly wings or peacock feathers that is produced not by pigments but by structures invisible ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Papadakis United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Newbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906506230
SKU
V9781906506230
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99-50
About P Forbes
Author Peter Forbes was winner of the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing. Tom Grimsey is an artist with a particular interest in malleable polymorphic structures.
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