Nanotech: Big Dreams, Small Steps

June 24, 2002 | Source: Business Week

Diagnostic tools and sensors for bioscience and materials to enhance the fabrication of complex materials (such as gene chips) are the most likely nantechnology products to emerge in the next five years, according to experts.These will followed by diagnostic technologies to help researchers better understand and measure nanoscale interactions, mainly in biotech, then nanotherapeutic devices that will carry stores of drugs through the blood stream, and further off, nanoscale electronics.