Acknowledgements

Article Type: Viewpoint From: Sensor Review, Volume 30, Issue 4

Clive Loughlin provided the idea for this viewpoint. Wayne Yuhasz and Kristen Schulz provided editorial comments. Industrial nanotechnology and material change are ideas developed by Bradley Edwards. Researchers in the Nanoworld Laboratories at the University of Cincinnati (www.min.uc.edu/nanoworldsmart/), in the Engineering Research Center at North Carolina A&T State University (http://erc.ncat.edu),and at General Nano Company (http://generalnanollc.com) contributed to this viewpoint. There was also a large amount of published information surveyed for this viewpoint. These sources and contributions are gratefully acknowledged.