Название: Biomimetic Nanotechnology: Senses and Movement, 2nd Edition
Автор: Anja Mueller
Издательство: De Gruyter
Год: 2023
Страниц: 142
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 54.6 MB

This is an interdisciplinary book for biomimetic nanotechnology, that correlates the biology on the molecular scale with nanotechnology mimicking human senses and movement. The introduction provides the background in life science, chemistry, material science, and engineering needed to understand sensors and movement on the molecular level. The chapters discuss human movement, vision, smell and taste, hearing, and touch. Each chapter explains the sense or movement on the molecular level, then discusses nanotechnology that uses the human molecules or mimics the function of the human sense and movement on the nanoscale. This is an excellent book for senior undergraduates and graduate students in the life sciences, chemistry, material sciences, and engineering. It will also appeal to any reader with an interest in life sciences and nanotechnology.

This book is about human senses and movement, how they function on the nanoscale, and how they can be mimicked on the nanoscale by technology. It combines viewpoints and data from a variety of different fields: biology and chemistry, of course, but also physics and mechanical and electrical engineering. Since these fields are generally taught separately, many students may find this interdisciplinary presentation challenging. Therefore, I would recommend this book for senior undergraduate or early graduate students. While chemistry and biology are the most important fields in this book, students from any of the above-mentioned fields may read this book. It has been purposely written in simple language with explanations of the jargon used to make it accessible to a variety of fields.

The introduction presents the major points of each field needed to understand the content. Each student can choose the sections needed for their background. Each chapter starts by first looking at the molecular details of the sense or movement, so that it is clear what exactly is mimicked. The next part of each chapter will look at technology that uses some of the human molecules in nanotechnology. The last part of each chapter looks at nanotechnology that mimics the function of each sense or movement, not by using human molecules but chemistry, engineering, biology, and other sciences to achieve its goal.

Biomimetic nanotechnology is a large, quickly moving field. A lot of exciting new developments have been added to this edition. For the first time, research attempts to start with a nanoscale sensor, then to scale it up by self-assembly to a large-scale structure that includes many sensors, similar to what happens in human organs. This book is not a comprehensive compilation of all research on the subject; instead, I have chosen several examples for each chapter that stress the connection between the molecules in the human body and the human function of the senses and movement.