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Nanotechnologies and nanophysics claire dupas, marcel lahmani nanotechnologies and nanosciences are a fastdeveloping field of research, which sit at the point of convergence of several disciplines physics, chemistry, biology, mechanics, etc. As a result, numerous nanomaterials, nanodevices and nanosystems for various engineering purposes have been developed and used for human betterment. Nanoscience and nanotechnology are the study and application of extremely small things and can be used across all the other science fields, such as chemistry, biology. Nanotechnology news nanoscience, nanotechnolgy, nanotech. The usage of nanoscience and nanotechnology in engineering directly links academic research in nanoscience and nanotechnology to industries and daily life.
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