Bio-Microarray Fabrication Techniques—A Review
Nanotechnology is an often misunderstood term. Say the word, and
you are likely to elicit various conceptions from complete ignorance of the
term to the fear of a science fiction type mass assembler that threatens the
world.
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The term has come to mean different things to different people.
“Nano” is a prefix meaning one-billionth. In distance, a nanometer is
one billionth of a meter. As illustration, a human hair is 100,000 nanometers
(nm) in width. A red blood cell measures approximately 5,000 nm across.
Ten hydrogen atoms, lined up side by side, if...
