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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: The Key to New Studies in Areas of Science Outside of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
Abstract
In recent years, a new branch of nanoscience/nanotechnology seems to be emerging. This branch is characterized by the application of preparation methods and/or the diagnostic tools developed in nanoscience/nanotechnology in order to perform either new, decisive experiments or to open the way to novel applications in areas of science that were originally not related to nanoscience/nanotechnology, such as cancer research or quantum physics. In order to highlight the diversity of this new branch, we shall discuss the following four areas in which methods of nanoscience/nanotechnology are applied to other areas of science: (1) cancer therapy, (2) cellular labeling, (3) the synthesis of solid materials with tunable atomic structures, and (4) the new opportunities provided by nanoscience/nanotechnology to probe the limits of quantum physics, one of the classical problems of physics.
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- MRS Bulletin , Volume 34 , Issue 6: Nanofunctional Materials in Cancer Research , June 2009 , pp. 456 - 464
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- Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009
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