Priming pre-university education for nanotechnology

Current Science

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-40

  Lakhtakia, Akhlesh ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Humanities; JITE; Nanotechnology; Pre university education; Technosciences

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644603968     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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