2 Suzanne Lee 2005 p185 3 Suzanne Lee 2005 p197

•nanotechnology[<<] ‘Fashion fabrics made from ‘fabricules’ are ‘thinner than soap bubbles’, describes Neal Stephenson in his cult-science-fiction novel The Diamond Age (1995)2 ‘Nanotechnology, or molecular manufacturing, deals with the world of the small: the atomic or molecular level.’3 Antibacterial clothes or scented dresses hit the market. Electro spinning (to produce fibers) is also a type of nanotechnology, but this application is placed in the production process field. [<<]