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Have you ever heard about a Fourth Century AD, structure called the  Lycurgus cup ? Let me tell you, it's considered one of the oldest and finest inventions in the field of nanosciences. This cup changes its colour when seen in a different light. It's called Dichroic glass, meaning the green colour appears in direct light and red-purple when light shines through the glass. Weren't the Romans advanced? The word " nano " is a Greek word meaning very small and shows one thousand millionths of a meter (10^-9 m ). This word was first used by the American physicist  Richard Feynman  who is also a noble prize winner. He was at the California Institute of technology in 1959 and was given a lecture entitled " There's plenty of room at the bottom " . His Ideas were to create small machines from already existing machines which were proved in further years. This is the reason why he is considered as  Father of Modern Nanotechnology .  Jumping to 1974, a Japanese...