Nanotech Wave in Healthcare
April 8, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
This piece mistakenly attributes “nanotechnology” to American engineer Eric Drexler who popularized it in his 1992 book, Nanosystems. Drexler certainly is a fountainhead in the field, but it was Tokyo University’s Norio Taneguchi, in 1974, who coined the term to define a new level of precision manufacturing. In the 40 years since “nanotechnology” has come to light it has transformed many industries, now including medicine and healthcare—as illustrated here with contact lenses, heart attack sensors, antibiotic surfaces, microbots, breathalyzers, drug delivery vehicles, biodegradable electrodes, et al. MORE
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