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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8238

22 June 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/research
Community support for development of nano-technologies

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...

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