![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107134021im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Automated Technique Paves Way for Nanotechnology's Industrial Revolution
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August 1, 2007
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In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer-aided design and manufacturing process to reproduce nanosize structures with features on the order of single molecules.
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