Nanotechnology is significant on account of of its pre- eminence upon the comprehension, use, and control of matter at magnitudes of a minute scale, akin to approaching atomic levels, with which to manufacture new substances, instruments, and frameworks. Also known as ‘Molecular Manufacturing’, it is an emergent diversity of technologies in which medicine and engineering [...]
Would you like to make the world a better place? Does the thought of living in a world straight from a sci-fi novel excite you? Could environmental problems, species extinction, disease, poverty and starvation become a thing of the past? It’s possible that nanotechnology will change the world in amazing ways. But will those changes [...]
Introduction Today governments are spending a huge share of their revenues after the research and development of nanotechnology; nevertheless, it is very difficult to state precisely the opportunities or possible uses of nanotechnology. Nanonscientists and technologists are facing a big challenge of communicating with non-scientific fraternity. After the years of contemplation, many fallacies have developed [...]
Although the range of scientific endeavors that involves the use or study of nanotechnology gets bigger every year, it is difficult to find a definition which covers every aspect. In simple terms the prefix nano indicates something with extremely small dimensions and this gives us an insight into what nanotechnology is really all about. A [...]
There is no specific answer to who invented nanotechnology, but the word ‘nanotechnology’ was coined by Professor Norio Taniguchi in 1974. In 1959, Richard Feynman delivered a lecture at the American Physical Meeting Society about how molecules and atoms could be manipulated using specially-designed instruments. This was simply a proposition without a term for it [...]
You’ve heard endlessly about the many uses of nanotechnology across different industries. It is a technology that has been constantly challenging traditional and conventional technology. This technology finds uses in several kinds of sectors ranging from food to medicine to hardware to aerospace and everything else in between. Of late, this technology has shown promising [...]
It can be deduced that nanotechnology is practically an assembling process which takes place at a molecular level. The new technology is meant to transform the everyday products and the way they are manufactured by manipulating the atoms, so that the materials can be shrunk and improved in time. Although the current products based on [...]
Scientists get first look at nanotubes inside living animals, Camera captures fluorescent glow from tiny carbon tubes in fruit flies. Rice University scientists have captured the first optical images of carbon nanotubes inside a living organism. Using fruit flies, the researchers confirmed that a technique developed at Rice — near-infrared fluorescent imaging — was [...]
A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence developed by researchers at Illinois has made possible the accurate detection of nanometer-scale motion of biomolecules caused by pico-newton forces. “By combining single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer and an optical trap, we now have a technique that can detect subtle conformational changes of a biomolecule at an extremely [...]
New sol-gel inks developed by researchers at Illinois can be printed into patterns to produce three-dimensional structures of metal oxides with nanoscale features. The ability to directly pattern functional oxides at the nanoscale opens a new avenue to functional devices. Potential applications include micro-fuel cells, photonic crystals and gas sensors. The researchers describe the new [...]