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Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: A Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
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Not only did microtechnology during the second half of the 20th century lead to computers and the Internet, but it also brought us to the beginning of an exciting scientific revolution we now call nanotechnology. In addition to the information technologies currently enjoyed throughout the world, microtechnology has helped develop scientific instruments that make it possible for the first time to image, manipulate, and probe objects that can be more than 1,000 times smaller than the microcircuits of the most advanced computers. These objects have dimensions on the scale of nanometers, 1/100,000 the width of a human hair, hence the term “nanotechnology.” In recent work it has been discovered that these tiny objects can have electrical, mechanical, magnetic, and optical proper- ties completely different from those of the same material in bulk form. These discoveries could lead to powerful devices with new capabilities and also new materials that will impact all sectors of technology, from advanced electronics to advanced medicine.
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English
2002
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