Engineering Mega-Systems:British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Series on the Foundations of Natural Science and Technology – Vol. 6 NANO-ENGINEERING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY An Introduction to the World of Nano-Design Theideaofbuildingunimaginablesmallthingsattheatomiclevelisnothing new. Already in 1959, R. Feynman, the 1965 Nobel prize winner in physics, described during his famous dinner talk, “There’s plenty of room at the bottom!” how it might be possible to print the whole 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Brittanica on the head of a stick pin. He even speculated on how to store information at atomic levels or how to build molecular-sized machines:
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