CARMEN I. MORARU, CHITHRA P. PANCHAPAKESAN, QINGRONG HUANG, PAUL TAKHISTOV, SEAN LIU,

JOZEF L. KOKINI

Nanotechnology—the science and technology that focuses on special properties of a material which emerge from nanometer size—is becoming one of the most promising scientific fields of research in decades. It is enabling scientists to better understand the relationships between macroscopic properties and molecular structure, degree of order, and intermolecular forces in synthetic materials and biological materials of plant and animal origin.

Understanding the nanoscale colloidal properties of mater…






Fig. 2—Amylose chain coiled around a single-wall carbon nanotube. From Dagani (2002).



Fig. 3—Fluorescence microscopy image of microarrays of DNA


Fig. 4—Surface topography of triticale starch granules. From Juszczak (2003).

Fig. 5—Surface topography of a zein film analyzed by Atomic Force Microscopy.


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