...------------------------------------------------- Nanotechnology THE FUTURE AND PRESENT Ap So what exactly is nanotechnology? With that question there is a lot of answers. The definition of nanotechnology is, “the branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)”Nanotechnology will allow the construction of smaller circuits and computers. Smaller circuits will run faster enabling much faster computer speeds, and will give them much greater lives as well. That means a laptops efficiency could be increased by millions, living longer and working faster which would be more value for the money that you pay. I found an article on the internet from Royal society of chemistry that talks how nanotechnology will actually have a good impact on the environment in the future. It says “For the environment and energy, nanotechnology will have a significant impact. For instance, nanometer sized solar cells could be developed to provide much of the energy needed around the world and nanomaterial’s will increase the efficiency of fuel cells and batteries. I the future nanotechnology will be used to tackle environmental problems, new “green” processing technologies will minimize the generation of undesirable by-product effluent by curbing emissions.” Nanotechnology is a relatively new and emerging field of science, it was first alluded in 1959, but it remained largely theoretical until the 1980s...
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... Abstract There are many technologies that have drastically change the world that we live in. One of those technologies is Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology refers to materials, applications and processes designed to work on extremely tiny scales. Nanotechnology is being used every day in healthcare products, technology, cosmetics, sports equipment, food and agriculture, and usually people are none the wiser that they are using products with nanotechnology in it. This paper will discuss three different impacts that nanotechnology has had in our lives today and then how it might change how we live in the future. Paradigm Shift Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. Nanotechnology has many implementations but the three specific ones this paper will talk about are the effects that it has had on the environmental, agricultural, and technological aspects of our lives today and how it may even grow to change our lives in the future. Nanotechnology was first introduced by Nobel laureate Professor Richard P. Feynman in a 1959 lecture titled "There's plenty of room at the bottom,” at this time however nanotechnology was based on theoretical speculation. Since then nanotechnology has become a reality and is now, today among the fastest growing areas of science. In order to improve the environment nanotechnology is currently being used in several applications, such as cleaning up existing pollution, improving manufacturing methods to reduce...
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...Nanotechnology Applications in Today’s World Santos Santiago ITT-Tech Author Notes This research was conducted using material from both the internet and reference articles from the following: Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm Investigating Higher-Order Response Surface Methods For Military Nanotechnology Applications Like me, many of you have a variety of electric devices both in your home and in your car that as the years have gone by these devices have evolved from a big bulky device to what you now have, or can see. Technology has evolved at a drastic rate and this will continue in the future. Nanotechnology and the many applications associated with it will be a big factor on this evolution. The definition of Nanotechnology according to (The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology) Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. This covers both current work and concepts that are more advanced to the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. Because of the complexity of Nanotechnology and the science that guides it, much of the research in these areas is being conducted by grants to universities, Military research, and the Automotive Industry. There are many who protest this technology because there is still a lot to learn about its capabilities, and it uses. My research will focus on some of the uses of nanotechnology vs. the complexity of designing these devices. In the Automotive...
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...Kalpakkam, 28-30 November, 2011. Energy Conservation Through Application Of Nanotechnology N.K Mishra Department of Environmental Science and Biotechnology The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences Bhiwani, Haryana n2k.mishra@yahoo.co.in Priti Grover, Deepak Arora Department of Computer Science & Information Technology The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences Bhiwani, Haryana preity.grover@yahoo.com, deepakarora416@gmail.com Many years got spend in analyzing the technique – Nanotechnology and make it possible for Application. It involves the particles which are very small in size(1 to 100 nm) and measured as nanometers , if compared to human hair which is 80,000nm , the particles used in Nanotechnology is about thousands nanometers less than human hair. As the meaning of term accepted, working on it get started so as to give a new evolution to the world. Abstract— Nanotechnology is an advance and globally implied technology for almost all real application. In today’s modern era the idea of large and complex size items are diverted in the compact items. Such technology enhanced materials will enable weight reduction accompanied by an increase in stability and improved functionality. Nanotechnology helps in realization of miniaturized devices and systems & attainment of high surface area to volume ratio. In this Paper we study about the impact on Energy by the use of Nanotechnology. Energy is the important factor because day by day energy is consuming rapidly...
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...ISSUES PAPER Date 28 March 2008 Subject ISSUES PAPER: Emerging Technology Table of Contents Introduction 1 Communications Technology 2 Green City 2 Nanotechnology 2 Personalized Medical Monitors 2 Robotics 2 Mind-controlled interfaces 3 Personal Networking 3 Smart buildings 3 The future of bio-technology 3 Introduction History is full of life-changing inventions, the printing press, electricity, the telephone not to mention the foundations of medicine, transportation and computers and the Internet. It is well known that technology, coupled with knowledge and innovation have the potential to alter traditional concepts of the urban community. The cities to benefit from these changes are those with strong appeal for artists, creative individuals and younger educated people. The cities which have this creative skill base will be able to adopt and develop new technology. Historically, Melbourne has a long history as a manufacturing city. However with the rise of China and Asia there has been a steady decline in the manufacturing industry in Victoria. Melbourne has revived itself as a knowledge city with higher education arguably being a key factor in Melbourne’s current and future prosperity (Committee for Melbourne, 2007). Can Melbourne leverage from its historical base in manufacturing and knowledge to be a leader in emerging technology? It is well known that a city which can adopt new technology will excel...
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...Nanotechnology Patricio Peña Medina June 14, 2013 Composition II Professor M. Putman Research Paper It’s the biggest technology challenge since the information super high way. Engaging scientist, entrepreneurs and governments form countries all over the world. Public debates, press conferences and expos around the world this technology is revolutionizing science. Not visible to the naked eye, tiny self-assembling Nano systems offer big solutions to some of the world’s most complex problems. This is science on the Nano scale, or scientist it’s the largest topic with hundreds of thousand possibilities. To put things in more of an understandable perspective, the smallest things that the human eye can make out is around 10,000nm. To aid in further understanding of these measurements more than 100 students from Rice University by designing an immense single-walled carbon nanotube. The nanotube measured 1180 feet long (Williams & Adams 23). So what is nanotechnology? 1 nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter, about the size of six carbon atoms or less than one water molecule almost too small to imagine (Williams & Adams). Nano technology is the science of interacting with atoms and molecules to modify the way they behave; for example by chemical creating Ferro fluids or liquid magnets the exhibit strange behavior due to external magnetic fields. Or by fabricating Nano scale semiconductor crystals known as quantum dots which are sometimes called artificial atoms...
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...Prospects Of Market Volumes And Shares Economics Essay Nanotechnology qualifies for having a major impact on the world economy, because nanotechnological applications will be used in virtually all sectors. Scientists, researchers, managers, investors and policy makers worldwide acknowledge this huge potential and have started the nano-race. Prospects of Market Volumes and Shares The NSF [1] estimated a world market for nanotechnological products of $1 trillion for 2015. Depending on the definition of nanotechnology and its contribution to added value of the final products as well as the degree of optimism, many other forecasts vary between moderate $150 bn in 2010 [2] and $2.6 trillion in 2014 [3] . The latter, most optimistic scenario would imply that the market for nanotechnology-based products would be larger than the prospected information and communication technology market and would exceed the future biotech market by ten times. The forecasts differ significantly from each other, but have common thread in that they predict a substantial increase of the market for nanotechnological products with a take off some when in the early 2010s. The figures presented above show the possible direction, but are not adequate for deeper analyses of the development of the nanotechnology market. Lux Research and the NSF have both spent some efforts in breaking the figures down in nanotechnology subfields, the first in an analysis of 5 years in the past (1999-2003), the NSF shows the expected...
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...Nano technology in the automotive industry:- ABSTRACT What is Nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is the engineering of materials on the scale of 1 nanometer (nm) to 100 nm, a nanometer being 1 billionth of a meter. At this level, the basic physical laws governing macro objects undergo a drastic change. A macro particle is a cluster of atoms arranged together in random order. The formation of the structure is left to nature, and control over the properties of the material is difficult. Nanotechnology, on the other hand, is a bottom-up approach where materials are created by placing individual atoms together. This decreases the randomness in the structural formation, enabling significant control over the properties of the material. Mechanical properties such as strength, ductility, and resilience can all be incorporated into one material. Currently, nanotechnology is functioning as an enabling technology. It is being used to enhance the properties of existing materials. This is largely attributed to the fact that the technology has clearly not been understood and there is still much more to nanotechnology than meets the microscopic eye. It is rare for a single technology to have the power to dramatically influence almost every major industry in the world. Nanotechnology falls into this category and offers fundamentally new capabilities to architect a broad array of novel materials, composites and structures on a molecular scale. This technology has the potential to drastically...
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...Even though artificial nanorobots do not yet exist, biological nanorobotic system do, proving that such systems are possible. As such, most of the research done along this first path of design and simulation has been done in the context medicine, and shown that this field also serves to derive from biological system. The first nanomedical device design technical paper was published in 1998, and current research on the medical implications of molecular nanotechnology has been collected into one source, which is commonly referenced in medicinal applications of nanorobots. While robotics has been used in health care for awhile, the nano aspect of this only recently surfaced in this area. In fact, it didn’t even appear in the comprehensive review of robotics in health care in 1993. The other area of focus is on the actual assembly of the systems, which investigates the precise interactions with nanoscale objects or manipulation with nanoscale resolution. Because of nanotechnology’s rapid growth, there has been a great need for practical techniques to manipulate and assembly nanodevices. Subsequently, a larger number of papers exist in this topic that the first are mentioned. Development of these methods is still in a beginning stage, and the chemical and physical reasons behind them are not yet fully understood. One of the first demonstrations was done at Bell Labs, where nano germanium structures were created on a germanium surface by raising...
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...used in varying scientific applications. Nanoparticles have significant surface area to volume ratio and are able to be suspended because of surface particle tension. This application is beneficial in water filtration because interaction with particle surfaces is strong enough to overcome differences in density, which results in filtered materials to either sink or float in a liquid (Fletcher, 2015). Nanotechnology has shown to be useful in water purification because the small molecule contaminates are passively absorbed by the nanoparticles. This discovery is superior to current water purification systems in place like ultraviolet radiation (UV) that is sufficient to kill bacteria however, more absorption occurs on small nanoparticles (Fletcher, 2015). However, nanoparticles can only be used to filter surface and groundwater because cations in saltwater tend to make the particles bind together, losing the effectiveness of its filtration properties (“Nanoparticle”). This technology has been extremely beneficial in Africa where they filter drinking water with paper that is embedded with silver or copper nanoparticles that is able to purify water up to 99.9% purity. Silver nanoparticles account for 23% of all nano-products and function as antimicrobials. Application of nanoparticles in water purification has allowed for the elimination of a variety of microorganisms, including but not limited to bacteria and some viruses (Zhang). However, nanoparticles cant be used...
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...Normative Decision Process of an Investment Gift for a Nanotechnology Center As the President of the State University of New York Institute of Technology (SUNY IT), the university has been willed $20 million with no will or codicil related restrictions as to the direction that the capital can be invested. The university has chosen that the best use of the $20 million is to invest into a Nanotechnology Center, which will be set to begin construction in the Spring of 2013. The decision process on how to invest the $20 million in the Nanotechnology Center will be outline by a normative approach. The normative decision process includes developing an idea for the investment in the Nanotechnology Center based upon an optimal decision. The optimal decision is that SUNY IT should invest in a Nanotechnology Center. In developing the normative decision process for investing the $20 million the paper will look at other possible options, design and implementation, technology strategy, technology policy, and tight appropriability regimes (Burgelman, Christensen, & Wheelwright, 2009). The Nanotechnology Center at SUNY IT will help meet the needs of the New York state initiative in the greater Utica area in bringing in nanotechnology jobs as part of Nano Utica (SUNY IT, 2014). Comparing the Nanotechnology Center to Other Investment Options As New York’s public polytechnic university, SUNY IT must meet the growing demand for technical degree fields and the necessary facilities...
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...Nanotechnology and its process on computing: Nano and technology: * a Nanometre is a unit of length in the metric system,equal to one billion of ametre(10-9). * Technology is the making usage and knowledge and tools,techinques and machines,in order to solve a problem or to perform specific function | | “ Nanotechnology is the art and science of manipulating in a nanoscale” Nanotechnology in computing: Computing includes designing, developing and building hardware and software systems; processing, structuring, and managing various kinds of information; doing scientific research on and with computers; making computer systems behave intelligently; and creating and using communications and entertainment media. Nanocomputing:”A nanocomputer is a computer whose physical dimensions are microscopic. The field of nanocomputing is part of the emerging field of nanotechnology . Several types of nanocomputers have been suggested or proposed by researchers and futurists.” Nanocomputing, as defined in this report, refers to computing systems which are constructed from nanoscale compo- nents. The issues that need to be faced for successful realization of nanocomputers relate to the scale and integration of the components. nanotechnology and its type: Electronic nanocomputers would operate in a manner similar to the way present-day microcomputers work. Most engineers agree that technology has not yet come close to pushing this limit. By 1970s standards, today's ordinary microprocessors...
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...Nanotechnology Nanotechnology is defined as the understanding and control of matter at a very small scale which is called nanoscale. This type of science involves all different aspects like measuring, imaging, modeling and manipulation of matter at the nanoscale length. A Nano is so small that it is one billionth of a meter. In one inch there are 25,400,000 nanometers. The thickness of a sheet of paper is around 100,000 nanometers thick. As you can see, these are very tiny. This became popular in the 1980s by a man name K.Eric Drexler; that wanted to build machines from the nanometer. The Feynman theory was not to change the laws of physics but to enhance the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. Some new research in nanotechnology are developing nano-structures that will be able to tell the diseased cells from the healthy ones and then deliver the needed drugs directly to the cancerous tumors with no harm the healthy cells or to any other organs. Solar panels are another, because when using nanotechnology they are far more efficient than using standard designs that are now being use to convert sunlight to electricity. In return, solar power panels would be much more affordable. Researchers have also discovered that really small specks of rust can help remove arsenic from our drinking water. Imagine a fabric that is woven from tiny wires and that will absorb 20 times its weight in oil. A nano-fabric is being research and may be available for use in the near future...
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...Nanotechnology Daniel Aguilera Evelyn Ortiz Sheng Huang Geraldy Jean Louis Week 7 Course Project LAS 432 Technology, Society and Culture Professor Michael Gooch March 28, 2015 1. Introduction 3 2. Description of the technology (Dan) 4 3. Historical development (Dan) 4 4. Political and legal (Sheng) 6 5. Economic Considerations (Sheng) 8 6. Psychological and Sociological effects (Evelyn) 10 7. Cultural and Media Influences (Evelyn) 11 8. Environmental Implications (Geraldy) 12 9. Ethical and Moral Implications (Geraldy) 13 10. References 15 1. Introduction Nanotechnology is an ambiguous term used for a technology that allows for the creation and manipulation of molecular size materials. These materials can be assembled, rearranged and even controlled to offer human interaction in the microscopic world. The intended use of this advanced technological science has a wide range of applications in medical science, material construction, and military application. The minimization allows it to be able to penetrate and manipulate areas that were never possible in the past. It is the next big technology that permeates all areas of science to help advance human problems and obstacles in society. The power in creating robots that can be commanded to manipulate things at the atomic level, such as delivery drugs, eliminating cancer, anti-bacterial clothing, and military weaponry. The advancement of medical...
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...NANOTECHNOLOGY Contents: • Aim • Introduction • Nanotechnology is a set of enabling technology • Interest in Nanotechnology • Development in last 10 years • Brief History • Diversity • Implications of Nanotechnology • Unifying themes • Examples • Molecular electronics • New technologies for clean and efficient energy generation • Nanoassembled products • Growth in world investment in nanotechnology • Social, ethical and safety concerns. • Health and environmental impacts • Social and ethical issues arising from Nanotechnology-based products. • Conclusions on the global nanotechnology scene. • Issues and challenges for the research sector • Future Scope Aims of Term Paper are to:- ✓ Define and explain Nanotechnology. ✓ Elaborate the various terms related to it. ✓ Describe various examples of Nanotechnology. ✓ Outline the Future scope of Nanotechnology. ✓ Explain the various applications of Nanotechnology in different fields. What is nanotechnology? Nanotechnology is engineering at the molecular (groups of atoms) level. It is the collective term for a range of technologies, techniques and processes that involve the manipulation of matter at the smallest scale (from 1 to 100 nm). The classical laws of physics and chemistry do not readily apply at this very small scale for two reasons. Firstly, the electronic properties of very small particles...
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