Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business

nanotechnology \na-no--tek-'nä-l -je-\ n (1987): the science of manipulating material at the atomic level

Although nanotechnology deals with the very small—a nanometer is 1/80,000th the diameter of a human hair—it is going to be huge. From the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the products we manufacture to the composition of our bodies, everything is made of atoms. And if we can manipulate the atom, then that changes the rules of the game for almost every product.

Coal and diamonds, for ...