Initially inspired by the work of Richard Feynman in 1959 during his famous talk “There is plenty of room at the bottom”, nanoscience and nanotechnology have moved during the 2000s from laboratory developments to daily life applications. The nanoworld, as understood today, is at the frontier between the level of atoms and molecules, governed by quantum physics and the macroworld where materials have bulk properties resulting from the assembly of billions of atoms.
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