A couple new wings have been added to Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville.

Although rather large in size, students, faculty and outside companies will use the wings to study a very, very tiny world.

An atomic absorption spectrometer, a thermagravimetric analyzer, an ultraviolet visible spectrophotometer.

Some big words are used to describe the equipment that'll soon analyze some teeny-tiny things happening in the new rooms.

Everyone can, however, relate to the resulting science.

The research about to be done here can be used in water treatment, electronics, even cancer treatments.

"We have a very small number of universities in the U.S. offering nano-science programs and most of them are post-graduate," says Chemistry & Physics professor, Rafiq Islam.

The science that'll be done in the new labs will be at the atomic level.

"[We'll be] looking at the molecule at the nanometer level. Nanometers is ten point negative nine meters," explains Islam.

The nano-science building has an incubator and is split into two wings.

One is hoped to be filled with outside companies.

The other, for new academic studies at Northwest.

Chemistry, physics and biology combine to create and customize new molecules, a pretty powerful and unique combination.

"Many people think so," says Islam. "This is the way we are going in the future."

Two outside companies are already on board.

The new center allows Northwest to offer a new nano-science degree.

It's a field experts say is hot right now.