Posted By:
Ed
Posted On:
Monday, September 15th, 2003
A nanometer is roughly 1/1,000,000th of the thickness of a US dime. Nanotechnology involves building very tiny machines, on the scale of nanometers. In this article in the New Atlantis, Adam Keiper explains in layman's terms some of the concepts behind and recent developments in nanotechnology, and discusses where it might be headed in the future.