Us industry starts to think big by acting small

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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Nanotechnology now resembles biotechnology or information technology in their infancies — before venture capital flowed unimpeded, and jobs


abounded. But predicting job growth in this developing field is difficult, not least because nanotechnology is more than one thing. The broadest definition describes nanotechnology as the


manipulation of individual molecules smaller than 100 nanometres (although some would argue for 50 nanometres). The concept has sparked scientific imaginations because working at this


'nanoscale' changes the physical properties of materials — making things really small provides researchers with another way to control materials. This is a preview of subscription


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Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Smaglik, P. US industry starts to think big by acting small. _Nature_ 408, 621–622 (2000).


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