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Nanotechnology is a field of science that controls the manipulation of atomic properties so as to make the functional systems and other materials acquire exclusive capabilities [1]. The amazing approach of nanotechnology has been developed within chemical engineering as an explosive response and inevitable consecutive inspiration caused by original development of fullerenes, designed and created by Sir Harry Kroto who was awarded Nobel Prize for his invention of the methodology for engineering and separation of members of fullerene family in1996 [1].
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Pavlovic, M., Mayfield, J., Balint, B. (2013). Nanotechnology and Its Application in Medicine. In: Furht, B., Agarwal, A. (eds) Handbook of Medical and Healthcare Technologies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8495-0_7
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