A big future for the science of the small
Dicembre 19, 2006
Nanotechnology is the development of new products and processes using matter with dimensions in the range of approximately 0.1 to 100 nanometres. A nanometre is one-billionth of a metre (or one-millionth of a millimetre), making this truly the ‘science of the small’. To put this in perspective, the width of one atom is approximately one-tenth of a nanometre, a DNA molecule is about 2.5 nanometres wide and the thickness of a human hair is approximately 80,000 nanometres.
leggi su The European Food Information Council
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