Measuring the nano-world
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Thomas A. Campbell
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Article
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2009
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Elsevier Science
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English
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To measure is to know '', said Lord Kelvin (1824-1907). With the intense recent interest in nanotechnology, this phrase is as apposite now as it was then. Nanotechnologists are trying to understand things at scales we humans have trouble even fathoming. How can we quantify something that we cannot s