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2 Growing (Up) from the Nanoscale to the Mesoscale
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... I n a plenary session to start the workshop, Paul Weiss, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Fred Kavli Chair in NanoSystems Sciences at the University of materials in a mesoscale structure, there are some details that can be ignored or minimized without sacrificing precision in describing the phenomena that are occurring in a given system. The two approaches are complementary, however, and Weiss California, Los Angeles, described the defining noted that mesoscale studies are benefiting from the chemical, physical, optical, mechanical, and experimental, theoretical, and simulation tools electronic properties of surfaces and supramolecular developed to explore nanoscale phenomena and assemblies and discussed the cooperative behavior build the field of nanotechnology, as well as from observed between functional molecules.
From page 6...
... Chemists, meanwhile, have used their centimeter scale, are proving useful in creating tools to design building blocks that can be put structures at the mesoscale. However, they are not together to create larger structures in ways that applicable for creating the latest semiconductor provide specific control over molecular interactions structures.
From page 7...
... In ones that could be used to insert functional nanotechnology, he said, there were structural tools components into the material, and these functional that let researchers observe and control the components could be observed and measured using placement of individual atoms and molecules to either scanning tunneling microscopy or develop some predictive rules regarding structure spectroscopic methods (Zheng et al.
From page 8...
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