Nanotechnology is the science and engineering of the very small.
The prefix ‘nano’ comes from the Greek for a dwarf and means one
thousand millionth. Nanotechnology is on the scale of the
nanometre, one thousand millionth of a metre.
That is roughly the size of a single molecule, or about 5
atoms. In recent years scientists and engineers have learned
how to control materials with this …
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