On the evidence of Nature's recent conference in Tokyo, technologies at the nanometre scale are now within reach. But how are they to be realized, and what form will they take?
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Laura Garwin and Philip Ball are, respective-ly, Physical Sciences Editor and Assistant Editor of Nature.
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Ball, P., Garwin, L. Science at the atomic scale. Nature 355, 761–764 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/355761a0
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