Bizarre things happen at the nano-scale level: Water that doesn't freeze, non-metals that act like metals and vice-versa, electro/chemical/physical properties gone haywire. I don't pretend to understand it, but it looks like nanotech is going to give us a huge new class of materials with very, very bizarre, otherworldly properties, whose final uses we can only guess at at the moment. Bring it on, I say (I've really got my hopes up for thin, soft, form-fitting, bulletproof, Buck Rogers type space suits)!
Uh-oh. Ice 9 isn't far away...