The US National Nanotechnology Initiative has spent billions of dollars on submicroscopic science in its first 10 years. Corie Lok finds out where the money went and what the initiative plans to do next.
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Lok, C. Nanotechnology: Small wonders. Nature 467, 18–21 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/467018a
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