Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine At the Building Block Level
Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine: At the Building Block Level introduces the reader to current cutting-edge approaches being pursued for the design and development of nanotechnology applications to different areas of biology and medicine. It d
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Gabriel A. Silva
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Vladimir Parpura
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Nanotechnology for Biology and Medicine At the Building Block Level
Editors Gabriel A. Silva Departments of Bioengineering and Ophthalmology and Neurosciences Program University of California San Diego, CA, USA [email protected]
Vladimir Parpura Department of Neurobiology Atomic Force Microscopy & Nanotechnology Laboratories Center for Glial Biology in Medicine Civitan International Research Center Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute University of Alabama Birmingham, AL, USA [email protected]
ISSN 1559-7083 ISBN 978-0-387-31282-8 e-ISBN 978-0-387-31296-5 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-31296-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011935360 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
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Preface
Only within the last few years has much of the vision of Richard Feynman’s now famous lecture on December 29th, 1959 at the American Physical Society meeting held at the California Institute of Technology, “There’s plenty of room at the bottom,” been realized. To a significant degree, this has been due to the relatively recent advances in chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering that needed to precede the development of the kinds of technologies and applications Feynman eluded to in his talk. Designing, modeling, understanding, and ultimately building nanotechnologies is not an easy pursuit. Roughly speaking, nanotechnologies are engineered technologies and devices made up of materials and components over which some spatial aspect of the technology has been purposely designed and engineered at a nanoscale, typically regarded as between 1 and 100 nm or so. Importantly, the technology must exhibit some property or behavior or ability to interact with its environment that is unique and novel to the engineered device that is not a property of the constituent building block materials or elements. It is these properties from which the potential of nanotechnology stems. The scale at which such technologies are able to interact with their environment in order to produce unique and no
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