Nanotechnology

is the study of the control of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 90 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.
Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from novel extensions of conventional device physics, to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, to developing new materials with dimensions on the
nanoscale, even to speculation on whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
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