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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 381–382 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.195

Nanoelectronics: The strain of it all

Abbas Ourmazd

As in life, stress is ubiquitous in nanotechnology, and it rears its ugly head with monotonous regularity. Engineers respond with imaginative names for the consequences.