Re: Art, where's the buzz on nanotech saving America today?

Threeducks wrote:

Many academics have their hands in nanotechnology and a lot of advances
are being made. However, these are not things that turn into products
overnight. I never believed that this was going to be the messiah, but
advances will be made that eventually lead to great products.

Yeah, but nano is really surface chemistry, catalysis, and solid state
physics/material science. Those areas of research have been around for
ages. There are even some nanotechnology apologists who say that the
catalytic converter was the world's first nano-product. How absurd is
that?

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