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3 Molecularnanotechnology:alongtermview
3 Currentresearch
3.1 Nanomaterials
3.2 Bottomupapproaches
3.3 Topdownapproaches
3.4 Functionalapproaches
3.5 Biomimeticapproaches
3.6 Speculative
3.7 Dimensionalityinnanomaterials
4 Toolsandtechniques
5 Applications
6 Implications
6.1 Healthandenvironmentalconcerns
7 Regulation
8 Seealso
9 References
10 Externallinks

Origins
Theconceptsthatseedednanotechnologywerefirstdiscussedin1959byrenownedphysicistRichardFeynmaninhistalkThere'sPlentyofRoomatthe
Bottom,inwhichhedescribedthepossibilityofsynthesisviadirectmanipulationofatoms.Theterm"nanotechnology"wasfirstusedbyNorio
Taniguchiin1974,thoughitwasnotwidelyknown.
InspiredbyFeynman'sconcepts,K.EricDrexlerusedtheterm"nanotechnology"inhis1986bookEnginesofCreation:TheComingEraof
Nanotechnology,whichproposedtheideaofananoscale"assembler"whichwouldbeabletobuildacopyofitselfandofotheritemsofarbitrary
complexitywithatomiccontrol.Alsoin1986,DrexlercofoundedTheForesightInstitute(withwhichheisnolongeraffiliated)tohelpincreasepublic
awarenessandunderstandingofnanotechnologyconceptsandimplications.
Thus,emergenceofnanotechnologyasafieldinthe1980soccurredthroughconvergenceofDrexler'stheoreticalandpublicwork,whichdevelopedand
popularizedaconceptualframeworkfornanotechnology,andhighvisibilityexperimentaladvancesthatdrewadditionalwidescaleattentiontothe
prospectsofatomiccontrolofmatter.Inthe1980s,twomajorbreakthroughssparkedthegrowthofnanotechnologyinmodernera.

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