How Nanotechnologies Taking on Challenges of Time

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Today, many believe that nanotechnologies are as much a scientific and technological breakthrough as the atom splitting. Is it so? What makes them a breakthrough? What challenges of time do they take on? Does the microcosm research help develop any areas of macrocosm knowledge?

Mikhail Vladimirovich Alfimov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Photochemistry Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairperson of the RUSNANO Scientific and Technical Council

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