An overview article from Mechanical Engineering
from the engineering-the-future dept.
Mechanical Engineering Magazine continues its year-long series focusing on nanotechnology. The latest installment ("Not without engineering," April 2001) is recommended by Giff Constable, who saw a notice about it in Tim Harperís TNT Weekly newsletter. GC writes: "For those heavily involved in nanotech issues, it will be old hat, but I thought it was one of the better written overviews I've seen, speaking as the non-scientist I am. The article was written by Arun Majumdar (professor and vice chair for instruction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley [and] also member of the ASME Nanotechnology Steering Committee).
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This series emphasizes the growing interest in a variety of engineering disciplines in the challenges of developing molecular nanotechnology. Past articles in the ME series appeared in the January and February, issues.
February 22nd, 2007 at 4:30 PM
[...] For an overview of nanotech by Arun Majumdar, published in 2001 but still worth reading, see “Not Without Engineering” in Mechanical Engineering magazine, mentioned here on Nanodot earlier. About flagellar motors, he writes: Biologists have investigated these motors. If, however, one looks at them from the engineer’s viewpoint, one could envision isolating the motors to propel nanoscale robots… [...]