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The first issue of Nature Nanotechnology, published five years ago, contained seven research papers. We catch up with the authors of those papers and ask how nanotechnology has changed since then.
What progress has been made in efforts to engage the public in decisions about nanotechnology over the past five years? Chris Toumey asks various experts in the field.
Paul Scherrer and Peter Debye developed powder X-ray diffraction together, but it was Scherrer who figured out how to determine the size of crystallites from the broadening of diffraction peaks.