NANOTECHNOLOGY INVENTIONS FEATURE – PAINTS AND COATINGS

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney FOR devotees of Captain Kirk, Dr Spock and the original Star Trek crew, the thrilling world of nanotechnology could sound vaguely familiar. It offers the 21st century a swathe of new products and services, from dirt-repelling cars to 'thinking' materials that can change colour automatically. Nanotechnology is a relatively new approach that deals with understanding and applying the properties of matter at the nano-scale, where a small molecule measures one nano-metre (one billionth of metre) in length, or about 1/80,000 of the ...


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