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‘Nano’ is in-thing: scientist

G. Narasimha Rao

‘This technology can manipulate small objects’

Robert Curl Jr.

VISAKHAPATNAM: Study of nano-science and technology is necessary because science really requires this technology, Nobel laureate Robert Floyd Curl, Jr. said here on Sunday.

Nano technology has the ability to observe and manipulate small objects. “This science is very exciting and look for what wonderful things that come out”, Dr. Curl, Jr. said in a chat with The Hindu.

Nanotechnology, as any one knows covers wide variety of concepts and ideas and helps in producing many products lighter, stronger, cleaner, less expensive and more precise.

The 74-year-old US scientist Dr. Curl, Jr. who won the Nobel Prize in 1996 along with Sir Harbold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley in chemistry for discovering fellerene, a nanosclae carbon form, spoke about different aspects of this branch science which is the buzzword now. Invention of the scanning tunnel microscope helped to view atoms and function of electron. This should be helpful in making things on nanoscale, he said.

“But it would not be as apparent as the revolution the computer and internet have brought in”, he said and hoped the nanotechnology would have more positive impacts and not many negative impacts.

Scientists are also working hard to anticipate the problems that arise due to nanotechnology and a Centre for Biological Nanotechnology has been established at Rice University, Texas to undertake the research into this aspect.

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