Pilot Study Data
Number of popular articles about nanoscale science and technology in data set 1986-1999
Table 1. Number of articles / year
The study found 39 different characterizations of nanoscale science and technology in 262 mentions. The following table presents high count representations.
Table 2. High Count Representations from Pilot Study
| Molecular manufacturing n=48 |
Future computers n=23 |
Medical applications n=19 |
| Science fiction n=15 |
Biology/cybernetics n=11 |
Future electronics n=11 |
| Eric Drexler, biographical n=10 |
Inventions: New & possible n=9 |
Ed Regis, biographical n=9 |
| Micro machines/Self assembly n=9 |
Cryogenics n=8 |
Foreign competition n=8 |
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