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Engineering the Elements 3 PART I: THE CHANGING TRADITION Chapter 1: H o w It All Fits Together The architecture of molecules 13 Chapter 2 : Bringing D o w n the Barriers Getting chemical reactions to g o 54 Chapter 3 : Caught in the A c t Watching atoms dance &3 Chapter 4 : Impossible Order When atoms meet geometry 111 vi Contents PART II: NEW PRODUCTS, NEW FUNCTIONS Chapter 5: Perfect Hosts and Welcome Guests Molecules that recognize each other and build themselves 145 Chapter 6: Metals from Molecules Electronics goes organic 186 Chapter 7: A Soft and Sticky World The self-organizing magic of colloid chemistry 216 PART III: CHEMISTRY AS A PROCESS Chapter 8: Chemical Beginnings How chemistry came to life 259 Chapter 9: Far from Stable Fractals, chaos, and complexity in chemistry 290 Chapter 10: Transforming the Globe The crises of atmospheric chemistry 323 Bibliography 351 Index 365
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN