Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology Rice University historian Cyrus Mody tells the story of the fortyyear history of the probe microscopy community that played a key role in the development of nanotechnology techniques and institutions ID: 278310
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Instrumental Community
:Probe Microscopy and the Path to NanotechnologyRice University historian Cyrus Mody tells the story of the forty-year history of the probe microscopy community that played a key role in the development of nanotechnology techniques and institutions.
Mody, C. C. M. (2011). Instrumental Community: Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN: 9780262134941
Book Explores Contributions of the Scanning Probe Microscopy Community to Nanotechnology
Conclusion: New research fields (such as nanotechnology) emerge in response to the combination of external pressures on the research system and demographic, social, intellectual, and technological pressures arising within pre-existing fields.
Main Findings:
Healthy research communities innovate and experiment as much in the forms of their institutions as they do in their technologies.
Commercialization of academic research takes many forms, is driven by many motivations, and has a very long history.
There is no one best way to structure university-industry cooperation.
Blurring of lines among academic, government, and corporate organizations causes friction, but is ubiquitous and necessary to the circulation of tools, people, and ideas within research communities.