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Nano The Age In partnership with Special Advertising Feature F For several years now investors and consumers have been hearing about the brave and wondrous new world of nanotechnology, of its breathtak- ... ing possibilities for the advance of industry, science, medicine, even space exploration and the military. Astounding ideas often take forever to succeed in the real world, and sometimes they never do. But, happily, nanotechnology is starting to live up to its great promise. Some 212 nanotech con- sumer products have already reached the market. Among them: a coating for fibers that enables apparel to repel stains; and power generation turbines made by General Electric that don’t corrode, thanks to an invisible nan- otech layer that provides protection for years. Nanotechnology is a sweeping arena where chemists, engineers, bi- ologists, and others work on the tiny scale of a nanometer—one billionth of a meter, or 1/80,000th as wide as a human hair. Here, molecules col- lapse, get rebuil   [More...] [Less...]