Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: A Portrait in Adolescence

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Harvard researcher George Whitesides, one of today’s leading chemists, gives a view of the current state of nanoscience and nanotechnology. They are attracting great attention because they may provide ways of extending the range and lifetime of existing microtechnologies. Nanoscience will also lead to the discovery of new phenomena, to new levels of understanding of nature and to new technologies.

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