Surface atoms in nanoscale things act differently from their bulk atoms.  Consider the ratio of surface area A to volume V of a nanostructur...

Materials that interact with electromagnetic and other fields show a wide variety of spatial and temporal phenomena.  The independence of an...

In 1889, the International System of Units (SI, short for Système International) was established.  It is based on seven basic units for meas...

   In 1867, James Clerk Maxwell suggested the use of small machines to defy thermodynamics' second rule, which says that the entropy of ...

Let us consider Feynman's ultimate vision: machines that can manufacture any substance from atomic components in the same way that child...

Norio Taniguchi was the first to define the word "nanotechnology" in 1974: Nanotechnology is primarily concerned with the separati...

Skilled blacksmiths have been producing the renowned Damascus steel in a complex manufacturing process for for 2,000 years. Layers of variou...

Pure nanomaterials have become available today. Graphite is a fascinating example.  Graphite is a kind of elementary carbon that is commonly...

  Doped silicon crystals are the basis of modern microelectronics. We've been pursuing the path from micro to nanoelectronics for quite ...

Richard Feynman foresaw sixty years ago that nanoparticles and nanomachines may be extremely useful in medicine.  This aspect of his vision ...

Our growing technical mastery of the nanoworld will open up a plethora of new technical possibilities, including Feynman's vision of ult...

We currently employ nanotechnology in a variety of ways, but only a small percentage of the population is aware of it. Nanotechnology, in ad...