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A brief introduction to nanotechnology will be followed by a description of two recent projects. In the first, atomic layer deposition (ALD) was used to coat carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with a thin film of ZnO. ALD is a highly conformal deposition technique in which films are deposited on a surface one monolayer at a time. CNTs are well known to have excellent field emission properties. ZnO is a versatile wide bandgap transparent semiconductor material with unique piezoelectric, UV photo luminescent (PL), gas sensing, and field emission properties that hold much promise for nanotech applications.