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what is the nanotech?

Nanotechnology  (" nanotech ") is manipulation of matter on an  atomic ,  molecular , and  supramolecular  scale. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology [1] [2]  referred to the particular technological goal of precisely manipulating atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products, also now referred to as  molecular nanotechnology . A more generalized description of nanotechnology was subsequently established by the  National Nanotechnology Initiative , which defines nanotechnology as the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100  nanometers . This definition reflects the fact that  quantum mechanical  effects are important at this  quantum-realm  scale, and so the definition shifted from a particular technological goal to a research category inclusive of all types of research and technologies that deal with the special properties of matter which occur below the give...