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  2. History of nanotechnology - Wikipedia

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    The National Nanotechnology Initiative is a United States federal nanotechnology research and development program. “The NNI serves as the central point of communication, cooperation, and collaboration for all Federal agencies engaged in nanotechnology research, bringing together the expertise needed to advance this broad and complex field."

  3. List of South African inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved South African people or South Africa including predecessor states in the history of the formation of South Africa. This list covers innovation and invention in the mechanical, electronic, and industrial fields, as well as medicine, military ...

  4. Science and technology in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa dismantled its nuclear weapons programme in 1989, the first nation in the world to do so, and became a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1991. [ 11 ] South Africa continues to use its surplus of Uranium as part of its nuclear energy programme, supplying the Koeberg Nuclear Power Station and SAFARI-1 research ...

  5. List of nanotechnology organizations - Wikipedia

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    National Nanotechnology Manufacturing Center (NNMC) Institute of Occupational Medicine, Scotland, UK; Safenano, Europe's Centre of Excellence on Nanotechnology Hazard and Risk; Institute of Nanotechnology, Stirling, Scotland, UK; Nanoworld, Russian Society of Scanning Probe Microscopy and Nanotechnology; Nano Science and Technology Consortium ...

  6. Timeline of carbon nanotubes - Wikipedia

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    August — Nanotubes discovered in CVD by Al Harrington and Tom Maganas of Maganas Industries, leading to development of a method to synthesize monomolecular thin film nanotube coatings. [ 14 ] 1992 – First theoretical predictions of the electronic properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes by groups at Naval Research Laboratory , USA; [ 15 ...

  7. Nanotechnology - Wikipedia

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    Nanotechnology is the science and engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. In its original sense, nanotechnology refers to the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up making complete, high-performance products. One nanometer (nm) is one billionth, or 10 −9, of a meter.

  8. Lothar Neethling - Wikipedia

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    A highly qualified scientist, General Neethling was alleged to have used police forensic laboratories for the production of poisons to kill anti-apartheid activists, and to have developed chemical and biological weapons for use against the black population in South Africa. [2] He died of lung cancer in Pretoria, aged 69.

  9. Productive nanosystems - Wikipedia

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    In 2005, Mihail Roco, one of the architects of the USA's National Nanotechnology Initiative, proposed four states of nanotechnology that seem to parallel the technical progress of the Industrial Revolution, of which productive nanosystems is the most advanced.