Travels

to the

Nanoworld

Travels to the Nanoworld. Miniature Machinery in Nature and Technology
Hardback: Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA, May 1999,
ISBN 0-306-46008-4, $ 25.95 , 254 + xiii pp.
Paperback: Perseus Books January 2001, ISBN 0-738-20444-7, $ 16.00, 254 + xiii pp.

Books on related topics

• "Protein synthesis and ribosome structure"
  by Knud Nierhaus and Daniel Wilson, eds.
  Wiley-VCH, 2004, 579 pp.
  Everything you always wanted to know about the cell's protein factory.

 

• "Springer handbook of nanotechnology"
  by Bharat Bhushan (ed.)
  Springer Verlag, 2004, 1222 pages
  Most comprehensive book about (physical) nanotech so far.

• "Bionanotechnology"
  David Goodsell
  Wiley-Liss 2004 337 pp.
  A textbook-style introduction into nanotech coming from the biological side

• "Structure and mechanism in protein science: A guide to enzyme catalysis and protein folding"
  by Alan Fersht
  WH Freeman & Co. 1999, 600+ pages, $67.95

 

• "The machinery of life"
  by David S. Goodsell
  Copernicus Books 1998, 156 pp., $ 19.50

• "Introduction to protein structure"
  by Carl-Ivar Branden and John Tooze
  Garland 1998 (2nd ed.), 410 pp, $ 47.95

 

• "Fundamentals of microfabrication"
  by Marc J. Madou
  CRC Press, 1997, 576 pp., $94.95

 

• "Nanosystems: Molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation"
  by K. Eric Drexler
  Wiley 1992, 576 pp., $36.00

 

• "Engines of Creation"
  by K. Eric Drexler
  Anchor, 1987, $13.95

Some external links relating to nanotechnology:

General

• The UK nanotechnology network

• NanoBioTec Congress and Exhibition, Münster, 24.-27.9.2001

• National Nanotechnology Initiative (USA)

• YAHOO nanotechnology

• Sean Morgan's Nanotechnology pages

• The Nanoworld Image Gallery

The Foresight institute / Drexler school

• The Foresight institute

• Nanotechnology, 9th foresight institute conference, Santa Clara, CA, Nov.9.-11., 2001

• Nanotechnology, 8th foresight institute conference, Bethesda, MD, Nov. 3.-5., 2000

• Unbounding the Future

• Engines of Creation

Researchers in nanotech related chemistry, applications to biology

• M. Reza Ghadiri (self-assembling and self-replicating peptides)

• Nadrian Seeman (Building nanostructures with DNA)

• George Whitesides

• Shuguang Zhang

Research centres, institutes

• Nanoscale Science Laboratory, Cambridge University

• MESA+ University of Twente, NL

• Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik University of Freiburg, D

• Kompetenzzentrum Laterale Nanostrukturen

• Kompetenzzentrum Nanooptik-Anwendungen

• Kompetenzzentrum Ultradünne Schichten

• Kompetenzzentrum Nanotechnologie: Funktionalität durch Chemie

• Kompetenzzentrum Nano-analytik

• Kompetenzzentrum Ultrapräzise Oberflächenbearbeitung

• Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik (Freiburg)

Companies

• Altus (technical applications of protein crystals)

• Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc.

• Clinical Microsensors (requires Flash)

• InLight communications (MEMS-based optical switches)

• Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs

• Ormecon organic metals / conducting polymers

• Nanophase Technologies Corporation

• Nanogen (genetic testing)

• Technology for Industry Ltd.

• zyvex.com (mechanochemistry, Drexler-style)

Resource centres

• Cornell Nanofabrication Facility

• Stanford Nanofabrication Facility

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