- Volume 3 (2008), Issue 6
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I. What is nanotechnology? The term nanotechnology summarises a wide variety of technologies used in different sciences like physics, chemistry, biology and medicine. These technologies jointly research, produce and use structures and materials of a typical dimension below 100 nm3 4. Publications of different international scientific bodies on uniform definitions of nanotechnology and nanomaterials unanimously use 100 nm as the upper limit for size as