Kuala Lampur, Dec. 5 -- If you were to imagine a world where cancer is treated with microscopic seekers that target only tumour cells, where our strongest buildings are woven from carbon threads a million times thinner than a human hair, and where clean water is filtered through magical membranes that remove even the smallest viruses, you are not dreaming of science fiction. You are reading the headlines from the front lines of nanotechnology, a revolution that is already unfolding in labs and, increasingly, in our daily lives.

A recent review of the field by researchers Ram Harsha and Kishor K. Patel, published in the International Journal of Scientific Research and Reviews, serves as a powerful State of the Union for this invisible dom...