What Should We Call the (Nano)technology in Your Stain-resistant Pants? (IEEE Spectrum)
My first blog entry for Spectrum two-and-a-half years ago was on the struggle not only between wet and dry approaches to molecular nanotechnology (MNT) but also the competition for ownership of the term “nanotechnology” that seems to persist between the adherents to MNT, as exemplified by the Foresight Institute , and those who use the term to acknowledge developments in manipulating and …
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