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Modeling Molecules: Computational Nanotechnology as a Knowledge Community

机译:分子建模:作为知识社区的计算纳米技术

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I propose that a sociological and historical examination of nanotecbnologists can contribute more to an understanding of nanotechnology than an ontological definition. Nanotechnology emerged from the convergent evolution of numerous "technical knowledge communities"-networks of tightly-interconnected people who operate between disciplines and individual research groups. I demonstrate this proposition by sketching the co-evolution of computational chemistry and computational nanotechnology. Computational chemistry arose in the 1950s but eventually segregated into an ab initio, basic research, physics-oriented flavor and an industry-oriented, molecular modeling and visualization, biochemical flavor. Computational nanotechnology arose in the 1990s as a synthesis of these two subgroups, infused by people and practices from computational materials science, engineering, computer science, and elsewhere. I show that to understand the aims and outcomes of computational nanotechnology-and nanotechnology more generally-we need to understand relationships between different, but related, nano knowledge communities and their dependence on particular practices, artifacts, and theories.
机译:我认为,对纳米技术专家的社会学和历史学考察比对本体论的定义更有助于理解纳米技术。纳米技术是由众多“技术知识社区”(由在学科和各个研究小组之间紧密联系的人们组成的网络)的融合演化产生的。我通过概述计算化学和计算纳米技术的共同发展来证明这一主张。计算化学在1950年代兴起,但最终又被重新分类为从头开始,基础研究,面向物理的风味和面向行业的分子建模和可视化,生化风味。计算纳米技术于1990年代兴起,是这两个子类别的综合,被计算材料科学,工程,计算机科学和其他领域的人员和实践所融合。我表明,要了解计算纳米技术(以及更广泛的纳米技术)的目标和结果,我们需要了解不同但相关的纳米知识社区之间的关系,以及它们对特定实践,人工制品和理论的依赖性。

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    《Perspectives on science》 |2009年第2期|144-173|共30页
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    Ann Johnson;

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    University of South Carolina;

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