Key Resources
For ebooks, search Scholar OneSearch, limiting to Library catalogs
For articles in general periodicals, newspapers, trade magazines and academic journals search Academic Search Premier (Ebscohost) or subject databases. Examples include:
- Chemistry: search SciFinder-n -> Provides searching of Chemical Abstracts, 1907-present.
- Medicine and biology topics, search Medline and BIOSIS Previews
- Engineering and computer science topics, search Engineering Village (includes Compendex and Inspec) and IEEE/IEL Electronic LIbrary/Xplore.
For articles in high impact journals covering a wide range of subjects:
What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale. (from National Nanotechnology Initiative)
History of Nanotechnology
Richard Feynman was the first scientist to suggest that devices and materials could someday be fabricated to atomic specifications: "The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom." Later the term nanotechnology was coined. Today nanotechnology is reshaping technology. A short History of Nanotechnology from the Foresight Institute.
Related Subject Guides
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