"Nanotechnology"-anything constructed on thernscale of a nanometer, just a few times the size of an atom -has a quintessential science fiction ring. Yet you almost surely have some nanotechnology sitting around you. Try doing a Google search on the word. There: You just used it.rnThe revolution began quietly in 1981, when Gerd Bin-nig and Heinrich Rohrer at IBM in Zurich invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which could read a surface atom by atom.
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