January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
11h 48m
English
The extreme smallness of nano-objects and nanodevices implies the need for a great many of them for any practical application, which imposes great design challenges. In particular, it may be necessary to abandon the traditional engineering approach of explicit design of each individual component in a system; instead, evolutionary design principles may need to be adopted. Clearly this is very successful in the living world (e.g., brain design). Since living cells are full of intricate nanostructures and nanodevices, they also serve as a direct inspiration for artificial materials and devices. Furthermore, like their living counterparts, nano-objects and nanodevices moving in liquid ...