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NanoEnergetics: Hype, Reality and Future Nanoscience and nanotechnology have become part of the lay vernacular over the last decade, with the promise of a fantastic new world of medicine, ultra fast computers and energy independence; an exciting sci-fi future.Nano has pervaded the popular press, and authors have found it a useful tool in fiction literature, albeit very often with a foreboding tonality that to some portends a frightening future.
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