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Published online 30 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030623-17
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Renaissance potters were nanotechnologists
Chemical secrets of 15th century Italian potters revealed.
Artisans glazing pots in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Umbria were practising an early form of nanotechnology. Italian researchers have now revealed the full sophistication of this process1.
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