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NANO is a collective term for research and work on structures on a scale of several 0.1 nm up to several 100 nm.
One nanometre corresponds to 10-9 metres. Through the manipulation of matter and processes on such a scale, special chemical, biological, electrical, mechanical or optical properties of these materials and systems emerge, which facilitate new applica-tions in the macroscopic world.
Among the disciplines which deal with NANO are mainly the following. Interdisciplinary cooperation between these fields is an important challenge
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biology, biotechnology, chemistry, electronics, energy technology, engineering, material sciences, mod-elling, medicine, micro-technology, optics and physics.
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© 2005 austrian nano forum / austrian nano initiative
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