Swansea has a strong history of innovative and creative engineering which is epitomised by the cutting edge research conducted within the Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre. Engineering at the nanometre scale is one of the greatest challenges known to modern man and has the potential to revolutionise the way we live our lives, from star trek-like gadgets through to site specific medical diagnosis and drug delivery within the human body. Indeed, the Multidisciplinary Nanotechnology Centre at Swansea has developed an international reputation in many new fields that stretch traditional engineering concepts to the extreme. This has only been made possible by radical thinking that combines engineering with science, mathematics and medicine.