Challenges for the modern science in its descend towards nano scale

Current Nanoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 372-389

  Uskoković, Vuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BULK COUNTERPART; CONTROLLING SYSTEM; CRITICAL BOUNDARIES; CURRENT RISE; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; MATERIALS DESIGN; MICRO-SIZED PARTICLES; MODERN SCIENCE; NANO SCALE; NANOMATERIAL; NATURAL CONSEQUENCES; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; SELF-ASSEMBLY METHOD; SPATIAL SCALE; SYNTHETIC APPROACH; ULTRAFINE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DESIGN; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

MATERIALS PROPERTIES;

NANOMATERIAL;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG DESIGN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE MICELLE; REVIEW;

EID: 70350705945     PISSN: 15734137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157341309788921381     Document Type: Review

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