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The financial support from Direccion General de Educacion Superior Tecnologica (EXSEST) from Public Education Secretary (SEP) through projects 3616.10-P and 2203-09-P for development of this research work is gratefully acknowledged. The authors would like to thank to Polios Villafranca for provide chicken feathers, and the micrography department of CFATA of Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico campus Juriquilla, especially to Alicia Del Real Lopez for technical assistance. 

This effort, known as the Manhattan Project, would be unlike any scientific project undertaken in history. Until the Manhattan Project, science was pursued under public purview Scientists gave lectures about their work, published their findings in academic journals available for public consumption, and often made headlines with their discoveries. In contrast, the Manhattan Project was pursued under the most secretive of conditions. Eventually those involved in the project would work together under tight security in a secret lab complex erected in a remote New Mexico desert. 

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