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Nanotechnology
What is Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of
matter on an atomic and molecular scale
from 1 to 100 nanometers.
Richard Feynman(1918-1988)
The celebrated physicist and
Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman is
perhaps the first person who saw
the potential of working at
nanoscale,He said that scientist will
be able to manipulate atoms and
molecules as they want,but he did
not have the tools to make it
reality.
Biotechnology
Mechanical
Engineering
Eng. & /
Robotics
Transportation
Advance
Materials &
Textiles
NANOTECHNOLOGY
National
Security &
Defense
Energy &
Environment
Aerospace
Medicine
/
Health
Food and
Agriculture
Carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology in medicine
Nanoparticles are
also used to stop
massive blood loss
and nano-silver
crystals are
already used as
anti-microbial
agents for the
treatment of
wounds .
For instance,
multicomponent nanoscale
particles are being
developed for cancer
treatment that will have
the ability to attach to
diseased cells, enable their
position to be tracked,
destroy the cell while
leaving surrounding tissue
intact when signalled to do
so.
Innovative technology
All materials you see around us, from a grain of sand to the largest
galaxies, are formed by atoms. we can consider that the basic unit for building a
house is a brick, several bricks form a house. Following this line of thought, we can
consider the atom as the basic unit of construction of all that is around us. Thus, we
can say that atoms are the basis of all life as we know it.
FIGURE 1.1 Different atoms aligned in a 1 nm long ruler: 3.5 gold atoms, 4 iron atoms, and
6.67 nitrogen atoms.
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