"Bill Pragnell" <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote

> Most nanotech is just particles at the moment, or nanoscale features on
> normal substrates. I think. Fullerenes count too, like buckyballs or
> buckytubes. There's all sorts of novel applications but it's mainly just
> paints and coatings at the moment. I think actual machines are quite a
> way off yet...

That's the bottomline. What's now called nano-science used to be known as
colloidal science (or in the other case, just solid state technology). Any
small molecule technically qualifies as a nano-particle as well. The
nano-science, as originally intended, hasn't come to fruition yet.

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