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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL Vol.4 No.5 May 2005 www.nature.com/naturematerials When US President George Bush visited China in 2002, he was presented with a tie that he could not get dirty. The ‘self-cleaning nanotie’ has a nanoscale coating that repels both water-based and oil-based liquids. The tie was a big hit. But its prominence as a symbol of China’s nanotechnology points to holes that the country is desperate to fi ll — a lack of basic science strategy in other...
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EDITORIAL EDITORIAL Vol.4 No.5 May 2005 www.nature.com/naturematerials When US President George Bush visited China in 2002, he was presented with a tie that he could not get dirty. The ‘self-cleaning nanotie’ has a nanoscale coating that repels both water-based and oil-based liquids. The tie was a big hit. But its prominence as a symbol of China’s nanotechnology points to holes that the country is desperate to fi ll — a lack of basic science strategy in other cutting-edge fi elds and a shortage of nanotechnology-based industry. What can China do? China’s nanoscience looks set to boom. Traditional strength in metallurgy translated well into modern materials sciences. Success over the past decade included, for example, a method to control the growth and 1 2 orientation of nanotubes and more recently a synthetic approach to ordered chiral mesoporous silica materials . Scientists affi liated with Chinese institutions now account for 10% of materials literature . Nanotechnology funding is rising sharply. For example, the RMB840 million (US $100 million) in nanoscience funding for the major agencies — the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) — under the fi
Nature Materials – Springer Journals
Published: May 1, 2005
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