Nanoengineering
Origin: Lat. nanus, ingenium
The design and manufacture of products and other objects based on the manipulation of atoms and molecules, building machines atom by atom. A "nanometer" is a billionth of a meter and is the thickness of five carbon atoms.
Spanish: Nanoingeniería
Sources and references
- Kurzweil, Ray. “The Age of Spiritual Machine.”cited 12 times
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