The future of nanotechnology

Although no one can surely tell the potential of this concept, nanotechnology is slowly becoming a part of our lives that no one can ignore. The fact that the technologies that come with it are being used in everyday happening of our lives just send out a message that this is a not concept that will go away anytime soon rather one that will stay here and advance the more.No one can surely also tell the future of such a delicate part of science. The only certain thing is that there are more news and developments everyday. Organizations that have...

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Nanotechnology Uses and Potential Risks

Although still not so clear how this new invention will possibly directly affect the human body, its effects on the human health and in the health industry at large area already being experienced. Nanotechnology is widely being used in many hospitals. For instance, research is being done on a special type of nanoparticles which can help cure cancer by directly delivering the cancer terminating drugs to cancer cells in the body. Nanotubes are already being used since decades ago too. It is almost as if nanotechnology will have an effect on many...

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Who Invented Nanotechnology

Origin of NanotechnologyThere are a lot of conflicting theories about the origin of nanotechnology and who exactly was responsible for inventing it. Obviously, like any other area of science there was that person who came along the concept in his research or practices and introduced it to the world then there were consequent developments by many other contributors. But when scrutinizing and detailing the facts about nanotechnology it becomes clear that actually there was specifically no one who wasWhen analyzing the facts about nanotechnology,...

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Historical background

The first observations and size measurements of nano-particles was made during the first decade of the 20th century. They are mostly associated with Richard Adolf Zsigmondy who made a detailed study of gold sols and other nanomaterials with sizes down to 10 nm and less. He published a book in 1914.[1] He used ultramicroscope that employes the dark field method for seeing particles with sizes much less than light wavelength. Zsigmondy was also the first who used the term nanometer explicitly for characterizing particle size. He determined it as...

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History of nanotechnology

The first use of the concepts found in 'nano-technology' (but pre-dating use of that name) was in "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on December 29, 1959. Feynman described a process by which the ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules might be developed, using one set of precise tools to build and operate another proportionally smaller set, and so on down to the needed scale. In the course of this,...

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology (sometimes shortened to "nanotech") is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally, nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometre in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices possessing at least one dimension within that size. Quantum mechanical effects are very important at this scale, which is in the quantum realm.Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular...

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NANO TECHNOLOGY

. . . .. It says on the program that today I am going to reflect on the future. That, I suppose, is a good example of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I am not sure how to do that. None of us really has any privileged way of looking into the future. Our best shot at futuring usually involves some kind of extrapolation of present trends. And yet, even if we can only hunch that the future will have some connection to past and present, it is not easy to discern which of the many present trends ought to be extrapolated. The future has a way of falsifying...

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