Aerospace applications of molecular nanotechnology

JBIS - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 145-152

  Globus, Al ^a   Bailey, David ^a   Han, Jie ^a   Jaffe, Richard ^a   Levit, Creon ^a   Merkle, Ralph ^a   Srivastava, Deepak ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MATERIAL; ENTERPRISE IS; MOLECULAR NANOTECHNOLOGIES; PAPER SURVEYS; PRECISE CONTROL; SCALE SPACES;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; NASA;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0002864680     PISSN: 0007084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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