Nanodesign

The following sections are included:

• PREFACE

• CONTENTS

The following sections are included:

• TREATMENT ON THE SAME FOOTING

• COMPLEXITY OF NANOSYSTEMS

• NANOTECHNOLOGICAL CHANGES

• BRAIN FUNCTIONS
  • World Views
  • Gödel's Theorem

• THE RELEVANCE OF BASIC QUANTUM THEORY TO NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • Temperature Effects
  • Quantum Devices

• SUMMARY

The following sections are included:

• SIMPLE NANOCLUSTERS
  • Bifurcation Phenomena
    • Discussion of Fig. 5
  • Analogies with Biological Systems
    • Does there exist creativity at the nanolevel?
  • What is the Reason for Nanoeffects? A Few Remarks
    • The behavior of surface particles
    • Description of anharmonicities
    • Effects due to the anharmonicities
  • Interaction Potential for Al
  • Temperature Effects
  • Methods of Description
    • Properties as a function of the particle number
    • New situation
  • Concluding Remark and Summary
  • What is Important?
  • Solving the Equation of Motion
    • On the application of simplifying models
    • Basic information
  • On the Design of Specific Nanosystems
    • Ferroelectric nanodevices
    • Design of specific materials
    • Low density lipoprotein
    • Biomolecular nanomotors
    • Avidin–biotin technology
    • Biomolecular translocations
    • Hierarchical nanostructures
    • Nanoparticles as vectors in gene delivery
    • Mechanical properties of nanostructures
    • Conclusion
  • Theoretical and Computational Methods
    • General remarks
    • The most important techniques
  • Features of the Methods
    • Molecular dynamics
    • Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics
    • Quantum molecular dynamics
    • The Monte Carlo method
    • Multiscale modeling
    • Multiscale modeling: a typical example

• FOOD CHEMISTRY: WHAT IS A NANOPIZZA?

• MEDICINE; BRAIN RESEARCH
  • On the Impact of Nanotechnology
  • Brain Research
    • Self-organizing process
  • Levels of Reality
    • On the description of brain functions
    • Living systems described mathematically
    • Application of Gödel's Theorem
    • Summary
  • What Kind of Reality Do We Observe?
    • Experiments with animals
    • Respectively correct, but not comparable with each other
    • Nanotechnological changes of the brain functions
  • The Strategy of Nature
    • An important principle: “as little outside world as possible”
    • Some principle remarks on biological evolution
    • Not cognition but the differentiation between “favorable to survival” and “hostile to survival”
    • Nanotechnological manipulations
    • Summary
    • Lashley and Pribham
    • Von Foerster
    • The world we experience is an invention of the brain
  • Scientific Realism
    • The naive point of view
    • The role of the equations of motion
    • Conclusion
    • Consequences for physics
  • Kant's Philosophy
  • Experiments with Distorting Glasses
  • D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
    • Fish
    • Application to nanoscience
  • Compatibility: Some Principal Remarks
    • The solution of specific problems
    • Species-preserving principles
    • Petrol in an electric car?

• SUMMARY
  • Materials science (cluster states)
  • Food chemistry
  • Brain research

The following sections are included:

• PHYSICAL MODELING OF BRAIN FUNCTIONS

• PARAMETERS

• SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPE

• ULTIMATE LEVEL

• DESCRIPTIONS AT THE ULTIMATE LEVEL
  • Brain Functions and Computational Neurogenetics

The following sections are included:

• NANOGENERATOR DESIGN

• CONSTRUCTION AND PRODUCTION OF NANOSYSTEMS
  • Nanosystems
  • Macroscopic Systems
  • The Influence of other Workpieces

• WHAT DIRECTIONS DO WE EXPECT IN NANOTECHNOLOGY?

• NANOENGINEERING
  • What Theoretical Tools?
  • Remark
  • Theoretical Modules

The following sections are included:

• THE PHYSICS OF BECOMING

• ON THE DESCRIPTION OF SELF-ORGANIZING PROCESSES
  • Application of Schrödinger's Equation
    • Remark

• TWO CASES

• DANGEROUS SITUATIONS

• WHERE ARE THE LIMITS?

• RELIABLE MODEL CALCULATIONS ARE NECESSARY

The following sections are included:

• STRUCTURE OF THE BASIC LAWS

• WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH TIME

• SCHRÖDINGER, PAULI, PRIGOGINE

• A QUANTUM-THEORETICAL ASPECT OF TIME IS NEEDED

The following sections are included:

• SYSTEMS AND PHENOMENA
  • Nanoclusters
  • Materials Science
  • Nanomachines
  • Self-Organizing Processes

• THEORETICAL DESCRIPTION

• METHODS AND WORLD VIEW
  • Some Critical Remarks
  • On the Nanotechnological Changes of Brain Functions

• OUTLOOK
  • Time Within Projection Theory
  • Quantum Block Reality

The following sections are included:

• BASIC PRINCIPLES

• AVERAGE VALUES

• INITIAL VALUES
  • Initial Values for the Coordinates
  • Initial Values for the Velocities
  • Temperature of Molecular Dynamics Systems
  • Measurable Quantities

• SUMMARY

The following sections are included:

• BASIC PRINCIPLE: INTERACTING SPHERES

• BASIC CHARACTERISTICS
  • Feynman Diagrams
    • Example
    • Strong interaction
    • Weak interaction
    • Electromagnetic interaction
    • Gravity
    • Gauge theories
    • Mechanisms

• SOME PRINCIPAL REMARKS
  • The Electric Field
  • Description Elements
  • “Action at a Distance” and the “Proximity Effect”
  • Newton's Equations of Motion
  • Action at a Distance
  • Comparison of Gravitational Force and Electrostatic Force
  • Summary

• IN SEARCH OF A MECHANISM
  • Application of the Particle Picture

• DISCUSSION OF THE BACKGROUND
  • Two Remarks

• FORCE TYPES WITHIN ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTION
  • Ionic Binding
  • Van der Waals Interaction
  • Covalent Bonds
  • Hydrogen Bridge Bonds
  • Metallic Binding

• SUMMARY

Theoretical materials research at the nanolevel not only needs solid state physics but, due to the strong anharmonicities and the strongly disturbed structure of many nanosystems (even far below the melting temperature of the corresponding bulk state), the basics of statistical mechanics and the theory of liquids are very often more appropriate as the basis for the theoretical description of such systems…

The following sections are included:

• References

• INDEX