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Nanoparticles will change the world, but whether it's for the better depends on decisions made now

  • Written by Kristin Omberg, Group Leader, Chemical and Biological Signatures, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nanoparticles will change the world, but whether it's for the better depends on decisions made nowNanoparticles are a thousand times smaller than a human hair. Illustration by Stephanie King, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Technologies based on nanoscale materials – for example, particles that are more than 10,000 times smaller than the period at the end of this sentence – play a growing role in our world.

Carbon nanofibers st...

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