Nanotechnology: International Developments and Emerging Products

Abstract Nanotechnology is becoming vitally important in many industrial fields, offering significant wealth creating opportunities and massive improvements to standards of living. This paper describes the current state-of-the-art, emphasises its multi-disciplinary nature and conveys the enormous impact that nanotechnology will progressively make on materials, product and process research and thence on to manufacturing technologies, industry and the economies of countries throughout the world.

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