Nano Comes to Life

“Nano Comes to Life draws on author Sonia Contera’s adventures in molecular-scale engineering to herald the coming of age of nanotechnology, and its promise to re-engineer tissue and transform lives.” * New Scientist *”[The photographic section] is truly striking with its visual illustration of laying down single atomic designs and smart insulin-releasing patches containing microneedles.”—Simon Cocking, Irish Tech News”[A] succinct study … Contera frames this near-future transmaterial science, with its focus on human well-being, as an effort allied to social justice even as it probes existential questions of what it means to be human.”—Barbara Kiser, Nature“This is a readable although necessarily technical introduction to the way that physics is coming to biology.”—David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer

Sonia Contera is professor of biological physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford and one of today’s leading nanotech pioneers. She lives in Oxford, England. Twitter @SONIACONTERA