Somewhere between fashion and revolutionary substance, nanostructures have come to fill the popular, scientific, science fiction, and patent literature. The field is nicely interdisciplinary, with inputs to it in materials, techniques, and human expertise from chemistry, physics, and every branch of engineering. The level of hype is extraordinary, but the substance is great: the meso scale of the structure and dynamics of matter, so long neglected by chemistry, is being gradually filled in.
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