Just as cells were discovered with early light microscopes and Saturn’s rings by the first telescopes, the nanoscale world has emerged due to new tools such as the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM). As a result of being able to build atom by atom a whole new world of inventions has evolved. Limited only by their imaginations, technologists are proposing nanobots, nanoscopic barcodes, and space elevators as the new inventions of tomorrow.

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Type Book ChapterPub Date 1/1/2007Stock # PB210X_18

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