Nanotechnology Essay

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Nanotechnology is the study of extremely small things and is used in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, materials science, and engineering. Nanotechnology is measured on what is called a nanoscale, also known as a nanometer which is one billionth of a meter. The important 3 steps of nanotechnology are “small size, measured in 100s of nanometers or less, unique properties because of the small size, and control the structure and composition on the nm scale in order to control the properties.” Nanostructure is found in nature, like in animals and plants, it is also found in other things in nature such as minerals and etc.
A man known as Physicist Richard Feynman (The father of nanotechnology) began with a talk known as “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” on December 29, 1959. During this talk Feynman began describing a process in which scientists would be able to control atoms and molecules. A decade later, Professor …show more content…

The nanotechnology is able to make these materials with clear glass surfaces “water and residue-repellent, antireflective, self-cleaning, resistant to ultraviolet or infrared light, and etc.” Nanotechnology is even found in everyday transportation such as cars and planes, anything you can travel from one place to the next. What nanotechnology does for transportation is less weight, since nanotechnology weighs very little, building transportation with nanotechnology could help with the weight issues, also it makes them “ideal for applications such as electromagnetic shielding and thermal management.” Nanotechnology is being used today in many of our electronics. They are making the size of a computer smaller and lighter than any other computers that wasn’t built with nanotechnology, even making them faster and can store a lot of information within a computer with

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