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“Everything we see around us is made of atoms, the tiny elemental building blocks of matter. From stone, to copper, to bronze, iron, steel, and now silicon, the major technological ages of humankind have been defined by what these atoms can do in huge aggregates, trillions upon trillions of atoms at a time, molded, shaped, and refined as macroscopic objects. Even in our vaunted microelectronics of 1999, in our highest-tech silicon computer chip the smallest feature is a mountain compared to the size of a single atom. The resultant technology of our 20th century is fantastic, but it pales when compared to what will be possible when we learn to build things at the ultimate level of control, one atom at a time.”
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Boustani, I. (2020). Nanocoating and Nanobattery. In: Molecular Modelling and Synthesis of Nanomaterials. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 290. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32726-2_9
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