nanotechnology

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That will be followed by another, which will be Nanotechnology and Health and that will be in South Africa in November, each of them taking a turn to lift up a notch in nanotechnology which is seen as something that can really uplift disadvantaged people, but something that is well in the future but we should keep in touch with, because of a potential breakthrough.

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  1. noun The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules.

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  • Pat is currently working on a project dealing with nanotechnology, which is all too small to see. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • Ubiquitous Nanomachines Let's start with the notion of nanotechnology, which is the craft of manufacturing things at the molecular scale. —  Asimov'sSF,August2008
  • People with stronger religious beliefs tend to be opposed to nanotechnology, which is said to have the potential to alter the fundamentals of nature, according to the report, published last December in the —  EurActiv.com
  • That will be followed by another, which will be Nanotechnology and Health and that will be in South Africa in November, each of them taking a turn to lift up a notch in nanotechnology which is seen as something that can really uplift disadvantaged people, but something that is well in the future but we should keep in touch with, because of a potential breakthrough. —  Engineering News | Home
  • One argument goes that this book put such a pall over nanotechnology -- at least the kind of nanotechnology that involves nanobots -- that when it came time to fund and launch a national nanotechnology initiative, the ideas of molecular nanotechnology with assemblers and table-top factories were abandoned in favor of nanoscale material science.
 

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