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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: A Personal View of a Chemist
Author(s) -
Balzani Vincenzo
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.200400010
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , scope (computer science) , chemist , focus (optics) , applications of nanotechnology , engineering ethics , engineering , materials science , computer science , chemistry , physics , optics , programming language , organic chemistry
What is nano? The words nanoscience and nanotechnology appear to have different meanings in different fields of science. This Essay opens a debate, which amongst other things, should be helpful for providing a focus for the scope of Small. The picture shows a model of a “molecular elevator”, an example of the progress being made at the nanoscale.