Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology

Society that has become one of the twentieth-century classic science lectures, titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."He presented a technological vision of extreme miniaturization in 1959, several years before the word "chip" became part of the lexicon.He spoke about the problem of manipulating and controlling things on a small scale.Extrapolating from known physical laws, Feynman envisioned a technology using the ultimate toolbox of nature, building nanoobjects atom by atom or molecule by molecule.Since the 1980s, many inventions and discoveries in the fabrication of nanoobjects have been testament to his vision.In recognition of this reality, National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of the White House created the Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology (IWGN) in 1998.In a January 2000 speech at the same institute, former President W. J. Clinton spoke about the exciting promise of "nanotechnology" and the importance of expanding research in nanoscale science and technology, more broadly.Later that month, he announced in his State of the Union Address an ambitious $497 million federal, multiagency National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in the fiscal year 2001 budget, and made the NNI a top science and technology priority.The objective of this initiative was to form a broad-based coalition in which the academe, the private sector, and local, state, and federal governments work together to push the envelope of nanoscience and nanoengineering to reap nanotechnology's potential social and economic benefits.

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Joel Cummings (2013). "Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology". Reference Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1108/09504121311320189