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Article: NATIONAL NANOTECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE NEEDS MORE LONG-TERM, INTERDISCIPLINARY INVESTMENT.
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- Advanced Materials & Composites News
- Article date:
- June 17, 2002
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Manipulating individual atoms and molecules to alter a material's makeup at the most basic level seems more like science fiction than science, but scientists are doing just that, changing everything from the composition of lipsticks and sunblocks to the most advanced medicine and information technology. This science and technology, known as nanotechnology, is carried out on a scale of approximately 1/100,000 the width of a human hair.
For nanotechnology to fulfill its promise of revolutionizing industry, however, the government-funded National Nanotechnology Initiative needs to increase its support of long-term research and promote more interdisciplinary effort, ...