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SUMMARY:G I TAYLOR LECTURE - Making Nanoscience and Nanotechnology useful 
 - Professor Sir Mark Welland FRS FREng\, Professor of Nanoscience Technolo
 gy\, Nanoscience Centre
DTSTART:20130128T173000Z
DTEND:20130128T183000Z
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CONTACT:Beverley Larner
DESCRIPTION:Nanotechnology started hitting the headlines in the early 1990
 s as though appearing from nowhere. Governments vied to throw hundreds of 
 billions of dollars at scientists and engineers amidst claims that it woul
 d 'cure cancer within 10 years'\, and that  'the possibilities to create n
 ew things appear limitless'. So what is the reality in 2013? There is no q
 uestion that we now have tools that allow us to characterise and fabricate
  at the scale of atoms and molecules in an unprecedented fashion. In this 
 sense a whole new world of opportunity has been opened. But as in all new 
 areas of science the translation to application and public acceptance is b
 oth time consuming and fraught. Drawing on my own experience going back to
  1985\, I will explore some of the quite remarkable insights into the mate
 rial world that nanoscience and nanotechnology has furnished and will desc
 ribe some of my own more recent work that\, for me\, epitomises the intell
 ectual challenges and real world opportunities of nano. 
LOCATION:Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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