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To understand nanotechnology, units of measure called nanometers must be understood. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. Can you try to picture the width of a hair divided into more than one hundred thousand sections? To be more specific, eight hundred of one hundred nanometers set next to one another would be equivalent to the thickness of human hair. Nanotechnology can be explained as the study and application of structures ranging from one nanometer to one hundred nanometers in mass. As quoted by Vaibhav Sarvesh in Nanotechnology--Counting Millions in the Billionth of a Meter, nanotechnology is officially defined as “research and technology development at the atomic, molecular and macromolecular levels in the length scale of approximately 1 nanometer to 100 nanometer range, to provide a fundamental understanding of phenomena and materials at the nanoscale and to create and use structures, devices and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their small......

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