An Introduction to Nanotechnology and Its Applications to Medicine

Gabriel A. Silva
7 min readJul 10, 2023
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Nanotechnology and nanoengineering are producing significant scientific and technological advances in diverse fields including medicine and physiology. In a broad sense, they can be defined as the science and engineering involved in the design, synthesis, characterization, and application of materials and devices whose smallest functional organization in at least one dimension…

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Gabriel A. Silva

Professor of Bioengineering and Neurosciences, University of California San Diego