Researches are still in process to find whether nanotechnology is beneficial for human beings or not. This issue places a big importance because it is related to the future growth as well as the security of nations. It is a vision of what might be achieved if one could create material and devices at the atomic or molecular level. Nanotechnology, which concerns the study and working with matter on an ultra small scale of approximately 1…
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…and the popular images that experts, politicians, and representatives of the various publics associate with nanoscience and nanotechnologies. The past research on public attitudes and political mobilization has demonstrated that the effectiveness of public protest does not depend so much on the number of people concerned about a technology but rather on the composition of the groups that are willing to act publicly in favor or against the implementation of such technologies (Hampel et al. 2000).