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Mark R. Wiesner

Mark R. Wiesner is Director of the Environmental and Energy Systems Institute at Rice University.
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    Series: Science and Society
    2005-08-05
    The advent of nanotechnology, the branch of engineering that seeks to build objects molecule by molecule – indeed, atom by atom – has evoked futuristic images of self-replicating “nanobots” that perform surgery, or that convert the planet into a mass of “grey goo” as they consume everything in sight. ... read
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