Nanoscale materials and components, including some of the tiniest products ever manufactured, have already found their way into communications systems and weapons being used in the war in Iraq. But the role of nanotechnology is still so limited that the Iraq war will more likely be remembered as the last to be fought without its benefits than the first that fully deployed it.
''Most of the materials that would really make a difference are still in the research stage,'' said James Ellenbogen, a nanotechnology analyst for the MITRE Corporation, a leading consultant company for the Defense Department.
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