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It is Richard Feynman who inspired the theoretical and applied scientists to concentrate on nanotechnology with his famous lecture: “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (1959). In particular he pointed out a direction which no one has probed until that time: image and manipulate atoms and molecules and fabricate structures and devices atom by atom and molecule by molecule (Liu 2009).
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Aydogan-Duda, N. (2012). Nanotechnology: A Descriptive Account. In: Aydogan-Duda, N. (eds) Making It to the Forefront. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, vol 14. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1545-9_1
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