Grenoble, 21/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - At an information meeting in Grenoble Friday last, the European Commission and researchers discussed the state of research into nano-technologies (one nanometer = a millionth of a millimetre); an area in which individual atoms and molecules are manipulated (more than 80,000 times less than the width of a hair). Prospects for developments are indeed enormous for industry, with entirely new sectors of activity, numerous applications and thus, very real...