Expansions of Nanotechnology

摘要

Introduction Little by little, nanotechnology has emerged amid enormous anticipations and fantastic promises of new materials, aspiring to manipulate our world "atom by atom.: While these grand visions continue to capture the imaginations of various audiences-and continue to be contested, as well-nanotechnology has developed into more than that. During the last two decades, many research programs and industrial R&D expenditures have resulted in actual products and tangible innovations. Nanotechnology, it seems, is expanding. But what does it mean to say that nanotechnology is expanding?