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Commentary
Nature Nanotechnology 3, 123–125 (1 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.51
Trends in nanotechnology patents
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Abstract
The papers that reported the invention of the scanning tunnelling microscope in 1981 and the atomic force microscope in 1986 have been credited in part with 'opening the doors to the nanoworld', and the fact that these papers have been cited thousands of times by other researchers is a testament to the impact that these two instruments have had in the field of nanoscale science and technology. There were also significant advances in other areas such as molecular self-assembly and nanomechanics around the same time, and these fragmented areas were brought together by the increased availability of techniques to control and restructure matter at the nanoscale at the end of 1990s.
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