Growing up in India in the 1970s and 1980s, the dream of many a young student, including myself, was to participate in the nanotechnology revolution represented by the integrated circuit. That meant engineering school, graduate studies in the Unit...

Prof Dr Vinod Subramaniam (University of Twente, Netherlands) is confident that researchers in developing countries will be able to participate in nanotechnology and help solve problems their countries are facing. He explains about his research in...