Ethics and Anthropology: Observational Data, Meta-Ethical Moral Relativism, and the Role of Values

Abstract

Over the past decade, considerable attention has been given to the growth and development of nano film structures. This increased attention is largely due to the growing demand for materials with more ubiquitous surface structures. Materials with this property are essential in today’s technological devices that demand smaller and smaller components. One way of producing such surfaces is through the application of self-assembled monolayers. A self-assembled monolayer (SAM) is an organized coating of molecules on a surface such that each molecule is bonded to the underlying substrate at one end and unbonded at the other end. The group bonded to the surface is typically referred to as the head group and the unbonded group is referred to as the functional group.