Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life

Enthusiasts Look Forward To A Time When Tiny Machines Reassemble Matter And Process Information But Is Their Vision Realistic? 'soft Machines' Explains Why The Nanoworld Is So Different To The Macro-world That We Are All Familar With And Shows How It Has More In Common With Biology Than Conventional Engineering. Fantastic Voyages -- Looking At The Nanoworld -- Nanofabrication -- The Brownian Universe: Physics At The Nanoscale -- Making Soft Machines -- Machines And Mechanisms -- Wetware: Chemical Computing From Bacteria To Brains -- Single-molecule Electronics -- Our Nanotechnological Future. Richard A.l. Jones. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.