You’re walking along the sidewalk while it is raining. Suddenly, a rock smashes onto your phone and knocks it into a large puddle. After groping around for a while, you pick up the phone, completely unscathed from the water and rock. This is the power of nanotechnology. Not everyone knows what nanotechnology is. In order to get a basic understanding of what it is, it is necessary to know the general description of nanotechnology, how it is built, why the nanoscale is important, when it started, and how it can benefit society. Nanotechnology should be understood by everyone because it can truly improve the world.
Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale which has the dimensions of about 1-100 nanometers can be applied to microscopic things and used in diverse fields of science, such as chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering. The idea of nanotechnology first appeared at a talk entitled “There’s plenty of Room at the Bottom” by physicist Richard Feynman in an American Physical Society meeting at the California Institute of Technology on December 29, 1959. However, it was not until a decade later that Professor Norio Taniguchi made the term nanotechnology even vaguely popular. Part of the reason people such as Taniguchi and Feynman are intrigued by nanotechnology, is due to its incredibly small size. Nanotechnology can stand at about one billionth of a meter, which is approximately as long as your fingernail grows in a second. Nanotechnology is clearly very small. Yet, depending on how we build at the nanoscale, could have a huge impact on how items are built.
There are different ways to build at the nanoscale, which can lead to making a variety of structures. The ...
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The small size ranging from 0.1 to 10 micrometres of nanobots make it difficult to be constructed. The process of working atom by atom and molecule by molecule is monotonous work and the miniaturization of synthetic mechanisms to a nanoscale will only be achievable with the advancement of research in metallurgy.
Amandi Hiyare: Before forming my research question, I had a discussion with my research project coordinator “Lisa Pope” who told me that the Flinders nanotechnology research team has been developing microbial catheters. Then on Monday I had an interview with Professor Joe Shapter who told me that your team was leading this project. So I was wondering whether you would be able to provide me with some detailed information about this innovation?
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Due to the varied properties and the scope of application which the CNTs possess, it is of paramount importance that CNTs are produced sufficiently at a competitive cost with the existing technology. The research over two decades, since the discovery of CNTs at Iijima’s Laboratory in 1991, has not helped in reduction of cost or production of CNTs of well-defined properties on a massive scale (Kumar, n.d.). This is mainly because of the complexity in the growth mechanism of CNTs. Extra ordinary properties and applications cannot be unleashed without the fundamental understanding of the growth mechanism of Carbon Nanotubes (Kumar, n.d.). There are several methods to produce Carbon Nanotubes in a laboratory setup. Some of widely used techniques include
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Nanotechnology is defined as the science of design, synthesis and characterization of matter at the nanoscale, which mesures one billionth of the meter [1,2] On that scale, structures exhibit novel chemical, physical and biological properties and processes, which enables the creation of engineered nanomaterials (ENMs), with various characteristics and potential applications. [3] It’s not just that though. Nanotechnology shows the ability to eliminate the gaps among medicine, material engineering and science, computer technology and public policy, creating new clinical and medical approaches to better diagnose, treat and prevent any kind of illness. In fact, it is already moving from simple passive structures
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of structures at nano levels. It uses incredibly small materials, devices, and systems to manipulate matter. These structures are measured in nanometers, or one billionth of a meter, and can be used by themselves or as part of larg...
By the time I reached my junior year of highschool, I found a field that offered an answer to my questions: nanotechnology. Growing up in a world with limited resources, pollution, and disease has opened my eyes. I dream of a day where small robots to clean the human body, or an army of microscopic machines can tackle the immense task of freeing the ocean of trash.
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Nanotechnology is science, technology and engineering that is conducted at the nanoscale. The nanoscale is about 1 to 100 nanometres.
The most interesting part of this career is developing nanotechnology. They may cure diseases or slow the aging progress. Most nano-devices are as small as 100 nanometers across so, they are built on the atomic scale. If put into the human body and designed pro...