Appendix B

Useful Web Sites

In this book we have mentioned several web sites. These are compiled here for easy reference and organized by chapter. Links to all of these sites, plus many more, may be found on the web page for this book: www.pelesko.com Chapter 1 The web page below contains links to many of Feynmans lectures. www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 Feynmans famous 1959 talk that launched the eld of nanotechnology is available here: www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html Chapter 2 The web page at the University of Cambridge contains excellent video of bubble raft motion. www.msm.cam.ac.uk/doitpoms/tlplib/dislocations/index.php Chapter 3 Nitinol wire is available from many sources. It costs roughly twenty dollars for a ve foot roll. This should be sucient for the protein folding experiment. www.smallparts.com www.teachersource.com Chapter 5 MITs Star Logo software may be downloaded from: education.mit.edu/starlogo/ The powerful JavaView Unfolder may be found at: www.javaview.de

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Chapter 6 Video of Saul Griths self-folding system may be found here: alumni.media.mit.edu/saul/PhD/index.html The University of Wisconsin hosts a web site with many excellent videos of self-assembling systems. mresc.wisc.edu Chapter 7 Video of Swinneys experiments may be found at: chaos.utexas.edu/swinney.html Video of Klavins robots may be found at: faculty.washington.edu/klavins/ Video of the vibrating particles system may be found at: www.haverford.edu/physics-astro/gollub/clustering Chapter 8 A great way to get a feel for DNA is to build your own model. Several kits are available here: www.thednastore.com/dnastu/dnamodels.html Chapter 10 If you want to learn more about the Fibonacci numbers, here is a good place to start: www.mscs.dal.ca/Fibonacci/ A good resource for all things geometrical is: www.ics.uci.edu/eppstein/junkyard/

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