Nanosciences and their convergence with other technologies: New golden age or apocalypse?

Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 249-286

  Laurent, Louis ^a,b   Petit, Jean Claude ^c  

^a GIP   (France)

^b Matter and Information Department   (France)

^c CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; NANOSCIENCE;

ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS; MOLECULAR SCALE; POTENTIAL PROBLEMS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84969262875     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812773975_0013     Document Type: Chapter

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