nanotechnology in infinte order on size ratio energy!!?
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I'm not reading all that $hit!
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Have you read "Prey" by Michael Creighton? I read this several years back before the world had heard of nanotechnology. It was enough for me to decide that it scares the beejeezus out of me. Granted.......it was a book. But the thought that these atoms could almost take on a life of their own is a bit disconcerting.
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The statements are true, and nanotech is currently being used in over 700 commercially available products. One of the primary concerns is that the technology is currently being used without consumer awareness. \nAlternately, the use of some, such as carbon nanotubes for water filtration, needs more research to ensure
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I have read that future nanotechnology may involve many small machines building small structures.\n\nToday, though, nanotechnology isn't quite that exotic.  For example, lithography is often used in microprocessor production to create patterns on semiconductor surfaces by focusing light through a pattern mask.  The surface is covered by a material called photo-resist that changes when hit by the light.  Then the photo-resist is etched away with acid leaving the very small pattern that was focused on the surface.  Then a layer of material is applied (metal for wire connections, transistor parts, etc).  Many additional layers are required before the processor is completed.\n\nAlso, there are other technologies such as electron beam lithography, molecular beam epitaxy and probably quite a few others.  Basically, it is just shooting a tighly controlled beam of electrons or molecules at a surface to create patterns.\n\nI think there are other areas of nanotech involving chemistry and microbiology.  I just know a few things about electrical engineering nanotech, though.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photolithography\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_beam_epitaxy\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_beam_lithography
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look into nano-tech. we already have injectable little machines that proform surgery. the power to weight ratio is amazing
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nanotechnology\nThe science of developing materials at the atomic and molecular level in order to imbue them with special electrical and chemical properties. Nanotechnology, which deals with devices typically less than 100 nanometers in size, is expected to make a significant contribution to the fields of computer storage, semiconductors, biotechnology, manufacturing and energy.\n\nEnvisioned are all kinds of amazing products, including extraordinarily tiny computers that are very powerful, building materials that withstand earthquakes, advanced systems for drug delivery and custom-tailored pharmaceuticals as well as the elimination of invasive surgery, because repairs can be made from within the body.\n\nLarry Bock, CEO of Nanosys, who helped launch more than a dozen successful biotech companies in his career, believes that nanotech will impact even more industries than biotech. In an excerpted article from the March 2003 Nanotech Report, he compared nanotechnology with the microelectronics industry. Bock said that "a single chemistry graduate student can create novel devices and device architectures not even imaginable or manufacturable by today's biggest microprocessor companies. That is because these devices are fabricated chemically, or from the bottom up. Existing microelectronics technology is fabricated by etching wafers, or from the top down." See AFM, STM, Buckyball, nanotube and MEMS.
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Necessary technical break-through occurs gradually. A decade back, nano-technology was beyond imagination but today it is realistic. Same way, few years from now we end up with new technology which we havent heard now. \nTechnology is like ladder, you have to make one step at-a-time to reach next step.
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Nanotechnology is a hybrid science combining engineering and chemistry. Atoms and molecules stick together because they have complementary shapes that lock together, or charges that attract. Just like with magnets, a positively charged atom will stick to a negatively charged atom. As millions of these atoms are pieced together by nanomachines, a specific product will begin to take shape. The goal of nanotechnology is to manipulate atoms individually and place them in a pattern to produce a desired structure. \n\nSome upcoming technology you might be interested in: Pervasive computing, mobile computing, biotechnology
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no, minimum size and maximum energy particles can be derived from uncertanity principle, which is finite. nothing is infinite but only uncertain which cretes an illusion of infinity which is only a distribution of probability, as can be explained by quantum mechanics.
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According to Bill Joy co founder of Sun Microsystems Nanotechnology will rise up and out of our control...I disagree since the technology is still on the drawing board and he's jumping to conclusions without factoring in human interaction and societal factors...so I see a complex future with governmental regualtions and social protests like such with the genetic engineering of produce.
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The science of developing materials at the atomic and molecular level in order to imbue them with special electrical and chemical properties. Nanotechnology, which deals with devices typically less than 100 nanometers in size, is expected to make a significant contribution to the fields of computer storage, semiconductors, biotechnology, manufacturing and energy.\n\nEnvisioned are all kinds of amazing products, including extraordinarily tiny computers that are very powerful, building materials that withstand earthquakes, advanced systems for drug delivery and custom-tailored pharmaceuticals as well as the elimination of invasive surgery, because repairs can be made from within the body.\n\nLarry Bock, CEO of Nanosys, who helped launch more than a dozen successful biotech companies in his career, believes that nanotech will impact even more industries than biotech. In an excerpted article from the March 2003 Nanotech Report, he compared nanotechnology with the microelectronics industry. Bock said that "a single chemistry graduate student can create novel devices and device architectures not even imaginable or manufacturable by today's biggest microprocessor companies. That is because these devices are fabricated chemically, or from the bottom up. Existing microelectronics technology is fabricated by etching wafers, or from the top down."\n\nBy 2020, scientists at Rutgers University believe that nano-sized robots will be injected into the bloodstream and administer a drug directly to an infected cell. This robot has a carbon nanotube body, a biomolecular motor that propels it and peptide limbs to orient itself. Because it is composed of biological elements such as DNA and proteins, it will be easily removed from the body. For more information, see http://bionano.rutgers.edu/Mavroidis_Final_Report.pdf.
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The next power of 10 smaller than nano (E-9) in SI units is pico (E-12).\n\nHowever, if your talking in terms of length, there is a unit called the "Ångström" which is 1E-10 meters.  This unit is sometimes seen when describing the size of atoms or chemical bonds.
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nanotechnology is engineering that deals with the study of molecular and atomic particles, measured in nanometers (billionths of a meter or 10 to the-9 ).
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I presume we are talking electronics here. Nano technology implies that circuits are of the order of nanometres(very very small). The problems with this is that as the tracks in an integrated circuit (IC) get closer together they interfer with each other through heat, magnetic field effect and electric field effects. The benefits are that because track lengths are small the wires between components do not have to be treated as transmission lines (complicated) at the very high frequencies we demand of modern electronics. \n\nIn sum it is more difficult but gives better results.
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infact the circuitry is so designed that the total power consumption is very small and thats the reason behind making such ICs using the nano technology. these days an IC may comprise millions of transistors allowing u to make the designs smaller and smaller. along with low cost
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Probably carbon latice structures, like buckeyballs or nanotubes.  These could then contain the smaller compounds that are doing the desired work.
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this is basically what is nanotechnology.........\n\nNanotechnology is defined as fabrication of devices with atomic or molecular scale precision. Devices with minimum feature sizes less than 100 nanometers (nm) are considered to be products of nanotechnology. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter (10-9 m) and is the unit of length that is generally most appropriate for describing the size of single molecules. The nanoscale marks the nebulous boundary between the classical and quantum mechanical worlds; thus, realization of nanotechnology promises to bring revolutionary capabilities. Fabrication of nanomachines, nanoelectronics and other nanodevices will undoubtedly solve an enormous amount of the problems faced by mankind today.\n\nNanotechnology is currently in a very infantile stage. However, we now have the ability to organize matter on the atomic scale and there are already numerous products available as a direct result of our rapidly increasing ability to fabricate and characterize feature sizes less than 100 nm. Mirrors that don't fog, biomimetic paint with a contact angle near 180°, gene chips and fat soluble vitamins in aqueous beverages are some of the first manifestations of nanotechnology. However, immenant breakthroughs in computer science and medicine will be where the real potential of nanotechnology will first be achieved.\n\nNanoscience is an interdisciplinary field that seeks to bring about mature nanotechnology. Focusing on the nanoscale intersection of fields such as physics, biology, engineering, chemistry, computer science and more, nanoscience is rapidly expanding. Nanotechnology centers are popping up around the world as more funding is provided and nanotechnology market share increases. The rapid progress is apparent by the increasing appearance of the prefix "nano" in scientific journals and the news. Thus, as we increase our ability to fabricate computer chips with smaller features and improve our ability to cure disease at the molecular level, nanotechnology is here.\nregards\nram