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Nanotechnology is all the rage. But will it meet its ambitious goals?And what the heck is it?

By Gary Stix   

 
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Albert Einstein, as part of his doctoral dissertation, calculated the size of a single sugar molecule from experimental data on

the diffusion of sugar in water. His work showed that each molecule measures about a nanometer in diameter. At a billionth of a meter, a

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