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There’s Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom, follows the history of nanotechnology, from Michael Faraday’s experiments at the Royal Society in London on the colors produced by “finely divided” gold particles to Don Eigler at IBM moving a single xenon atom back and forth across a platinum surface. Three nanomaterials—gold nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and graphene—are discussed in this chapter, from their discovery to their applications.
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Norton, M.G. (2023). There’s Still Plenty of Room at the Bottom. In: A Modern History of Materials. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23990-8_5
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