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Nanotechnology in its modern form started when we developed microscopes that could see and manipulate on a nano-scale. For the first time, we could see atoms and imagine the power and potential of working with the fundamental building blocks of our world.



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A scanning tunnelling microscope can image down to the atomic scale.
A scanning tunnelling microscope can image down to the atomic scale.

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