The first potential bottleneck involves funding. Nanotech is expensive, both for basic research and for developing manufacturing techniques. A single nanometric microscope costs more than NT $ 10 million. Equipment that can analyze internal structures is even more shockingly expensive.
第一個瓶頸是經費：不論在基礎科學或製程技術的研發上，奈米科技無疑都是非常昂貴的，一台可以觀察到奈米級表面顆粒的電子顯微鏡耗資上千萬，要能分析其內部結構的儀器更是貴得嚇人。