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(Credit: Photochemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry research group, Università di Bologna) |
The need for miniaturization
Why smaller and smaller?
Supramolecular Chemistry and Nanotechnology
The chemist as a molecular engineer
Molecular electronics and photonics
Molecules that mimick the functions of the components of macroscopic devices
Molecular machines
What they are and how they operate
Natural molecular machines
The "invisibles" that sustain life
Artificial molecular machines
Can men make and operate nanomachines?
Logic operations with molecules
Towards a chemical computer?
Where are molecular devices and machines studied?
Questions & Answers
Glossary
V.Balzani, A.Credi, M.T.Gandolfi, & M.Venturi
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