Paper Presentation & Seminar Topics: Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

Abstract : (Seminar) The constituent nanotechnology has evolved over the years via terminology move to stingy anything smaller than microtechnology, much as nano powders, and another things that are nanoscale in size, but not referring to mechanisms that hit been purposefully shapely from nanoscale components. See our Current Uses tender for examples. This evolved edition of the constituent is more properly tagged nanoscale bulk technology, while the original message is today more properly tagged molecular nanotechnology (MNT), or nanoscale engineering, or molecular mechanics, or molecular machine systems, or molecular manufacturing. Recently, the Foresight Institute has suggested an move constituent to represent the original message of nanotechnology: zettatechnology. At the most base theoretical level, MNT is building, with intent and design, and mote by molecule, these two things: 1) unbelievably advanced and extremely confident nano-scale and micro-scale machines and computers, and 2) ordinary size objects, using another unbelievably diminutive machines titled assemblers or fabricators (found exclusive nanofactories). In a nutshell, by taking advantage of quantum-level properties, MNT allows for unprecedented control of the material world, at the nanoscale, providing the effectuation by which systems and materials crapper be shapely with exacting specifications and characteristics. Or, as Dr. K. Eric Drexler puts it large-scale mechanosynthesis based on positional control of chemically reactive molecules. MNT represents the state of the art in advances in biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science and mathematics. The field investigate objectives in MNT are the design, modeling, and falsity of molecular machines and molecular devices. The emergence of MNT - both infant and mature - has numerous social, legal, cultural, ethical, religious, ideologic and semipolitical implications. At the most base social level, MNT is feat to be responsible for massive changes in the way we live, the way we interact with digit added and our environment, and the things we are confident of doing. For more information, read What is Nanotechnology? by the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology, this account from CORDIS for a child's eye view of nanotechnology, and What is Nanotechnology? by Tim Harper. See also Introduction to Nanoscience by Prof. Vicki Colvin, Rice University Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. See also What is Nanotechnology? from LANL, and Dr. Mihail Roco's presentation titled National Nanotechnology Initiative Overview from the 3rd Integrated Nanosystems Conference in Pasadena, California, held on Sept 22nd, 2004. For more information on the possibleness (both good and bad), see War, Interdependence, and Nanotechnology For more information on a recent think devoted to the advantageous possibleness of nanotechnology Nanotechnology in Construction - digit of the crowning ten answers to world's large problems ,At the end of the day, it is not the message behind the terms that is important, it is the fact that all the some definitions declare that we hit been and are on a rapidly accelerating subject rollercoaster, and fast modify is the track it rides. Once MNT develops to the initiate where we've shapely the two most primary machines - titled the Universal Assembler and the Nanocomputer - everything has a near-term possibility of momentous change.A key ingredient in discernment nanotechnology is realizing precisely what it is and what it isn't. ... we are conversation most investigate and development in the size scale of .1 nanometers to 100 nanometers to create unequalled structures, devices, and systems. In some instances the actual structures, devices, and systems module be much larger, but they module be classified as nanotechnology due to the fact that they module either be created at the nanoscale or nanotechnology module enable them to action newborn and/or reinforced functions. Many materials, once they are severally reduced below 100 nanometers, begin displaying a set of unequalled characteristics based on quantum machinelike forces that are exhibited at the level. Due to these quantum machinelike effects, materials haw embellish more conducting, be healthy to designate heat better, or hit modified machinelike properties. From The Next Big Thing Is Really Small: How Nanotechnology Will Change the Future of Your Business. By Jack Uldrich & Deb Newberry. March 2003 Read our review.To get a meliorate idea of why the micromillimetre scale is so important, see the account at the LANL site: Why is this size scale so important?Imagine a concern in which microscopic procreating robots are dispatched into the human embody with the assignment of sleuthing cancer cells, disassembling them, and sending them out into the bloodstream as squander products. Then imagine kindred robots in the safekeeping of a sinister obligate that decides to invoke an entire chaste into gray dust. Science falsity or reality? From Souls, Slavery, and Survival in the Molenotech Age: An Alien's Version by Lin Sten.Comprised of three independent and dependent movements: Dry, Wet, and Computational Nanotechnology; MNT represents the state of the art in advances in biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science and mathematics. The field investigate objectives in MNT are the design, modeling, and falsity of molecular machines and molecular devices. The emergence of MNT--both infant and mature--has numerous social, legal, cultural, ethical, religious, ideologic and semipolitical implications.Much as the invention of electricity and transistors were enabling technologies, so too is Nanotechnology (more precisely, nanoscale technologies) enabling - it module enable us to do immoderate newborn things in virtually every subject and technological arena. It module also modify things in capricious and unexpected ways. Having learned lessons from their experiences with another subverter technologies, scientists (technologists and social scientists) are collaborating in examinating the implications of the developments that are first to take place, in an effort to both smooth the transitions, and to nous off possibleness negative consequences (such as Gray Goo or government intervention in investigate and development).