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Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: A Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative
FIGURE 1.1 The size of nanoscale objects and phenomena compared with the size of small everyday objects. Courtesy of Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy.