Nanotechnology is being used to enhance medicine and to clean up plastic in oceans. Dr. Frederic Bertley takes a look at some of the current uses of nanotechnology, from pregnancy tests to efforts in ...

Nanotechnology represents one of the most transformative fields in modern science, bridging physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering to create breakthroughs that redefine how the world works. It ...

Nanotechnology is not a future promise—it is here now, embedded in products and processes that touch our daily lives. By manipulating matter at the nanoscale (one nanometer is one billionth of a meter ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The defenses of the body's immune system tend to destroy synthetic nanoparticles and frequently they are captured and removed from the body within few minutes. This, of course, is ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative ...