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Definitions
A list of terms related to nanotechnology.
New technologies have the potential to accelerate a country's development, but a global technology gap remains.
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Blue goo
See Grey goo.
Bottom-up manufacturing
See top-down manufacturing.
Buckminster fullerene
Also called 'buckyball'. A nanoscale sphere made of 60 atoms arranged in a perfectly symmetrical structure. If buckyballs were as big as footballs, footballs would be as big as the Earth.
Buckyballs were discovered in 1985 by Robert Curl, Harold Kroto and Richard Smalley, who received a Nobel prize for their achievement in 1996. Buckyballs are named after the American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller for his famous geodesic dome. Click here for an image of a buckyball.
Buckyball
See Buckminster fullerene.
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