In today's Globe and Mail, studying nanotechnology - "You get all kinds of neat effects, such as quantum tunnel effects that you can play around with." That's the whole idea of nanotechnology — applying the weird things that we see and trying to better understand them." "There are many start-up companies that are making nano-enabled products and processes. It's an innovative, creative field and lots of entrepreneurs are starting up businesses in nanotechnology," observes Dr. Carty."