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Index
carbon
195
3D potential box 41
100
activity
catalysis
90
catenane
agglomeration 98
alkanethiols
catholuminescence
171
154
alpha-helices
charging energy 129
amphiphilic molecules 152
142
chemical potential
65
chemical vapour deposition 153
anti-bonding
106
chemisorption 154
AOT
cis-trans isomerisation 91
atomic force microscope (AFM)
classical physics 19
187
close-packed structures 79
atomic number 61
atomic orbital 62
closed shell structure 63
ATP synthase
90
CMOS 203
CNTs
195, 196
Auger electron 170
colloids 102
Avogadro’s number
143
conducting polymers 207
backscattered electrons 169
110
conduction band
bacteria
28
122
conductivity
ballistic conductor
110
conductors
ballistic transport 126
conformational entropy 151
band theory 109
constant-current mode 182
beta-pleated sheets
75
constant-height mode 182
bionanotechnology
8
contact mode 189
blackbody radiation 32
contact resistance 126, 128
blocking state
130
Coulombic potential
body-centred cubic
79
64
covalent bonding
71, 104
Boltzmann constant
crystal planes
82
Boltzmann distribution 71
crystallisation 100
Bose-Einstein 112
79
cubic close packing
bosons
113
cycle of hype 201
bottom-up approach 141
de Broglie wavelength
bottom-up 143 146 75 128 RPS: PSP0007 - Science-at-Nanoscale 70 163 index
break-junction technique 15 de Broglie 113
broken-bond models 95 Debye-Scherrer equation 85
Brownian motion 25, 104 deflection of the cantilever 188
deflection 189
cantilevers 20, 187, 189 degenerate 67
capacitance 130 degeneracy 43
capillary interaction 156 delocalised 79
carbon electronics 206
density of states 44, 114
carbon nanotubes 5, 120, 208
Science at the Nanoscale: An Introductory Textbook
by Chin Wee Shong, Sow Chorng Haur & Andrew T S Wee
Copyright c
2010 by Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd
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978-981-4241-03-8