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Nano@NIST: Maximizing the Benefits and Minimizing the Risks of NanotechnologyA vast assortment of job-creating, economy-building innovations are emerging from laboratories across the globe thanks to progress in understanding and controlling matter at ever finer scales—all the way down to assemblies of a few atoms. Research and services at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) aim to ensure that this nascent nanotechnology revolution will blossom in the United States. NIST focuses on building the supporting technical capabilities that U.S. industry needs to master the exceptionally small and build a competitive advantage in the growing international markets for nanotech products. The Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) and nine other major laboratories at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are developing measurements, standards, and data crucial to industry’s development of products for a nanotechnology market that could top $2.5 trillion within the next decade—or about 15 percent of global manufacturing output. Already, worldwide sales of nano-enabled products—from computers, car parts, and cosmetics to cancer drugs, wound dressings, and dental adhesives—approach $90 billion. But the best is yet to come. NIST is helping to clear technical obstacles, including uncertainties about potential environmental, health, and safety risks, with the aim of opening the way for an ever more diverse range of prospective payoffs. More than 150 nanotechnology-related research projects are under way in the NIST laboratories. Here are a few examples of where NIST’s nanotechnology research is leading:
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