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texture 90
three-body interactions 47–8
PS see polysaccharides
PSD see power spectral density
psychology 244
pure information processing 126
purple membrane fragments 223, 224
push-and-pull technological equilibrium 239–40
PVD see physical vapor deposition
Q
QCA see quantum dot cellular automata
quantum computing 133–5
quantum confinement 24–7
quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) 141–2
quantum dots 25, 26–7, 179
quantum smallness 30–3
quantum well lasers 150
quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) 85
qubits 133, 134–5
R

R-fold modular redundancy 205
racetrack memory 146
radiation 80–2
radicals 118, 185
radio frequency identification tags (RFID) 187
Raman–Mandelstam spectroscopy 83–4
random access memory (RAM) 146, 147
random fiber networks (RFN) 164–5
random sequential addition (RSA) 174
raster techniques 87, 91
Rayleigh ratio 25–6
reactor devices 156
read-only memories 132
real machined surfaces 41–3
rectifying junctions 141
refractive indices 93–4, 97–8
regeneration of variety 207–8
regulations (nanotechnology deployment) 242
reinforcement (composites) 119–20
relays (electromechanical) 129, 130–2, 143, 144
renewable energies 233–4
reproducibility (growth) 182–3
reptile feet 200
repulsive electrostatic forces 179
residues:
bionanotechnology 215
biopolymer folding 181–2, 182
nanoscale 15
three-body interactions 47–8
resistive random access memory (RRAM) 147
resistor–transistor logic (RTL) 129, 131
resolution (microscopy) 76–7
resonant waveguide grating (RWG) 95–6
resource extraction (energy) 235
reverse waveguides 94–7
RFID see radio frequency identification tags
RFN see random fiber networks
RGD see arginine–glycine–aspartic acid triplets
rhodopsin 222–3, 224
ribonucleic acid (RNA) 182, 213–14, 215, 221
roughness 42, 43, 85–7
RRAM see resistive random access memory
RTL see resistor–transistor logic
runs (one-dimensional texture) 89, 90
RWG see resonant waveguide grating
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