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Published online 10 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030303-12
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Green plans for tiny tech
Nanotechnologists take responsible approach to the environment.
A US research centre is working to develop tiny technology in an environmentally friendly way, its director told this week's meeting of the American Physical Society in Austin, Texas.
Rice University's Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology in Houston, Texas, is trying to identify the potential impacts of manipulating matter on the scale of atoms and molecules to make devices over a thousand times thinner than a human hair.
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