Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is the creation of functional materials, devices and systems through control of matter at the scale of 1-100 nanometers, and the exploitation of novel properties and phenomena at the same scale; nanotechnology is also called molecular manufacturing. Nanotechnology is a result of the combination of different scientific fields such as physics, biology, engineering chemistry, and computer science in addition to many more. The foundation of nanotechnology is that atoms make up all things in our world; which can be manipulated to produce almost anything.

Nanotechnology, as it is understood today, was introduced by a man named Eric Drexler. He presented his ideas in a paper he had written in Prof. Feynman's class, on molecular engineering, which was later published in 1981; in 1987 Engines of Creation was published where he expanded the themes of his first book. Drexler received a doctorate degree from MIT in the field of nanotechnology in 1991, under the supervision of Marvin Minsky, the world-renowned artificial intelligence pioneer. In 1981 the invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope, by Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, and the Atomic Force Microscope five years later, made it possible to not only take pictures of individual atoms, but to actually move a single atom around.

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