Focus
Plenty of room revisited
- Focus issue:
- December 2009 Volume 4, No 12
50 years after Richard Feynman delivered his famous lecture, 'There's plenty of room at the bottom', Nature Nanotechnology looks at its influence on subsequent developments in nanoscience and technology.
Editorial
'Plenty of room' revisited - p781
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.356
Who was Richard Feynman and what did he actually say about nanotechnology?
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Thesis
Plenty of room, plenty of history - pp783 - 784
Chris Toumey
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.357
A 1959 lecture by Richard Feynman has become an important document in the history of nanotechnology but there are disagreements about when it became important, and why.
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Feynman's unfinished business - pp785
Richard Jones
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.358
Irrespective of what he got right and what he got wrong in his famous 1959 lecture, Richard Feynman's vision and imagination have had an important role in the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Full text - Feynman's unfinished business | PDF (85 KB) - Feynman's unfinished business
Feature
Surely you're happy, Mr Feynman! - pp786 - 788
Michael Segal
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.360
In 1959 Richard Feynman called for researchers to improve the resolution of the electron microscope, and they have — but resolution is only part of the story.
Full text - Surely you're happy, Mr Feynman! | PDF (490 KB) - Surely you're happy, Mr Feynman!
Review article
Atomic force microscopy as a tool for atom manipulation - pp803 - 810
Oscar Custance, Ruben Perez and Seizo Morita
doi:10.1038/nnano.2009.347
This article reviews the emergence of the atomic force microscope as a tool capable of creating nanostructures at room temperature, one atom at a time.
Abstract - Atomic force microscopy as a tool for atom manipulation | Full text - Atomic force microscopy as a tool for atom manipulation | PDF (919 KB) - Atomic force microscopy as a tool for atom manipulation
From the archives
Thesis:
The man who understood the Feynman machine
Chris Toumey
doi:10.1038/nnano.2006.187
Full text - The man who understood the Feynman machine | PDF (545 KB) - The man who understood the Feynman machine
News & Views:
New directions for chemical maps
Leslie J. Allen
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.116
Full text - New directions for chemical maps | PDF (319 KB) - New directions for chemical maps
Letter to Nature:
Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope
D. M. Eigler & E. K. Schweizer
doi:10.1038/344524a0
Abstract - Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope | PDF (514 KB) - Positioning single atoms with a scanning tunnelling microscope