0 an area of science that deals with developing and producing extremely small tools and machines by controlling the arrangement of separate atoms --
1 the science of making extremely small devices the size of atoms and molecules --
2 the design and use of extremely small machines made of just a few atoms: --
The event gathered product developers, investors and researchers to talk about commercial applications for nanotechnology.
There is no doubt that plans to help industry make use of nanotechnology research now have a priority and national nanotechnology centres are being set up worldwide.
It has been predicted that nanotechnology will be the world's second largest manufacturing sector at the turn of the century, with, perhaps, the computer chip industry remaining ahead.
They are often used as catalysts in nanotechnology, and may bind polymers like proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids creating assemblies reminiscent of life forms.
This can soon change as the potential of nanotechnology is driven home to industry by the continual breakthroughs that are being publicised.
On the much smaller scale of nanotechnology, researchers are developing molecule-sized physical machines that have been tested in animals.
Those who have been awarded funding range from optical biochips to very fast genome sequencing technologies with common threads - of solid-state and nanotechnologies.
We expect our atomistic strain computations to provide evidence of the strain effect in nanotechnology.
The new displays highlight nanotechnology in particular, but also feature miniature aircraft, and emotional machines.
