Nanorobotics
Subtitle: Current Approaches and Techniques
By: edited by Constantinos Mavroidis, Antoine Ferreira
Contributors: Ferreira, Antoine; SpringerLink (Online service)
Publisher: Springer New York; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9781461421191
Subjects: Biomedical materials; Engineering; Nanotechnology and Microengineering; Biomedical engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
Description: <p>Nanorobot devices now perform a wide variety of tasks at the nanoscale in a wide variety of fields including but not limited to fields such as manufacturing, medicine, supply chain, biology, and outer space. <i>Nanorobotics: Current Approaches and Techniques </i>is a comprehensive overview of this interdisciplinary field with a wide ranging discussion that includes nano-manipulation and industrial nanorobotics, nanorobotics in biology and medicine, nanorobotic sensing, navigation and swarm behavior, and protein and DNA-based nanorobotics. </p><p>Also included is the latest on topics such as bio-nano-actuators and propulsion and navigation of nanorobotic systems using magnetic fields.</p><p><i>Nanorobotics: Current Approaches and Techniques</i> is an ideal book for scientists, researchers, and engineers actively involved in applied and robotic research and development.</p>
Table of contents: title: Section I: NanoRobotics: The Vision and Applications; title: Introduction to NanoRobotics; title: Nanomechanical Cantilever-Based Manipulation for Sensing and Imaging; title: Swarms of Self-Organized Nanorobots; title: Reservoir Nanoagents for In-Situ Sensing and Intervention; title: Miniaturization and Micro/ Nanotechnology in Space Robotics; title: Diamondoid Nanorobotics; title: Section II: Nano-Manipulation and Industrial NanoRobotics; title: Virtual Tooling for Nano Assembly and Nano Manipulations; title: Nanorobotic Mass Transport; title: Nanorobotic Manipulation of 1D Nanomaterials in Scanning Electron Microscopes; title: Section III: Nano-Manipulation in Biomedical Applications; title: Nanorobotic Manipulation and Sensing for Biomedical Applications; title: Nanohandling of Bio-Materials; title: Apply Robot-Tweezer Manipulation to Cell Stretching for Biomechanical Characterization; title: Section IV: Inside the Body Nanorobotic Applications; title: Propulsion and Navigation Control of MRI-Guided Drug Delivery Nanorobots; title: Generating Magnetic Fields for Controlling Nanorobots in Medical Applications; title: MRI-based Nanorobotics; title: Therapeutic Bacterial Nanorobots for Targeted Drug Delivery Deep Inside Tumors; title: Sensing Strategies for Early Diagnosis of Cancer by Swarm of Nanobots: An Evidential Paradigm; title: Section V: Bio-Nano Actruators for Nano-Robotics; title: DNA Nanorobotics; title: DNA for Self-Assembly; title: Local Environmental Control Technique for Bacterial Flagellar Motor; title: Protein Based Nanoscale Actuation.<br><br>.