1987 Washington Post (Nexis) 5 July (Mag. section) w35 (heading) Just say nano.

1988 Sci. Amer. Jan. 103/1 I was recently told by a nano enthusiast that ‘thousands now living will never die!’

1990 G. Bear Heads 26 High-quality surgical nano wasn't enough to do the trick.

1994 Interzone Jan. 62/1 A plague of ‘locusts’, nano-driven game-world-like organic weapons whose seeds had previously been implanted throughout the planet.

1995 E. Regis Nano! xi. 200 There was so much back-and-forth nano-talk on the bulletin boards, discussion groups, and so on, that one nano-fan formed a breakaway group of his own and reserved it exclusively for discussion of nanotech topics.