The BS and the science of nanotechnology
- Written by Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
Carbon nanotubes are one of the products created from engineering at the nanoscale. from www.shutterstock.com
In case you missed it, Elon Musk called BS on the field of nanotechnology last week. The ensuing Twitter spat was admittedly rather small on the grand scale of things.
But it did throw up an important question: just what is nanotech, and...