Nanotechnology consists of manipulating molecules and atoms to create new materials. We’re talking about a world so small that it’s hard to imagine. This technology creates objects that are measured in nanometers, one billionth of a meter or 10–9. Keep in mind that a strand of human hair is around 80,000 to 100,000 nanometers in diameter.* Famed physicist Richard Feynman first described this concept in a speech he gave at Caltech in 1959 with the title, There’s plenty of Room at the Bottom in which he described using “machine-guided motion to assemble molecular structure with atomic precision.”1
U.S. Government Nanotechnology Initiatives
President Bill Clinton helped create the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) ...
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