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Showing posts with label use of nanotechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label use of nanotechnology. Show all posts

Nanoscale - Surface-To-Volume Ratio

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

Making An Appearance At The Nanoscale

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

Nanotechnology And Nanoscience.

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

Nanotechnology - A Historical Perspective

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

Nanomachine Manufacture - A World Made of Dust—Nano Assemblers

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

Nano: Infinite Possibilities On The Invisible Small Scale

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

Nanomaterials - Materials Of Wonder.

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

Nanomaterials - Diamonds Aren't The Only Thing That's Valuable.

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

Microelectronics To Nanoelectronics

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

When Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Collide

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

Ultra-Small Nano Machines - Masters Of The Nano-World

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

Nanotechnology's Possibilities: Technology On The Smallest Scales

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