Richard Appelbaum, from the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California, puts the global nanotech market figure at $2.6tn by 2014, or 15% of manufacturing output in that year.

• 加州大学的理查德.；阿佩尔鲍姆预计，到2014年，全球纳米技术市场总额将达到2