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Shedding Light on Nature’s Tiniest Building Blocks

2021-10-30

Shedding Light on Nature’s Tiniest Building Blocks

“First we have to talk about what we mean by nano”, says SINTEF researcher Sigurd Wenner. “Many people regard nanotechnology and nanomedicine as sinister or dangerous, but this simply isn’t true. Nano is simply a prefix for measurement units denoting something very, very small. For example, if you have walked one thousand metres, you can also say that you have covered one kilometre. This isn’t...