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State Journal, The, November, 2004 by Kasey, Pam
MORGANTOWN - The next big thing is really small, if you ask the scientists at WVNano.
"Nano" means one billionth: as in "nanosecond" or "nanometer" or as in the West Virginia University Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Education Initiative - WVNano for short. "Nanoscience relies on getting things small enough that their properties change," WVNano Interim Director Thomas Myers explained at a recent lecture.
One nanometer is about the size of two atoms side by side. At that scale, Myers said, classical physics no longer holds. Quantum physics takes over. New properties become available.
Gold, for example, is inert at the human scale. Its resistance to the tarnishing effects of oxygen is one of the properties that make it a good material for jewelry. But at the...
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