Michigan State University (MSU) physicist, Bradley Sherrill, says the future of nuclear physics lies in designer isotopes, which are tailor-made to solve specific problems.
According to excerpts from the article:
“We have developed a remarkable capability over the last 10 or so years that allows us to build a specific isotope to use in research,” said Sherrill, who is associate director for research at the university’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory.
Sherrill outlined some of the possibilities and what it will take to get there in an article in the May 9 edition of the research journal Science.
Another new research area known as nanotechnology is getting a lot of attention for its astonishing abilities to build objects with individual atoms and molecules, Sherrill noted. But he argued that nanotechnology hardly is the last word in small.
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