ABSTRACT

Nanotechnology, as dened by the Interagency Subcommittee on Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) of the U.S. Federal Ofce of Science and Technology Policy, is “research and technology development at the atomic, molecular or macromolecular levels, in the length scale

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