Anyone heard about this stuff? Nano-technology?

Question

Nanotech news November 16th, 1998

Good news from the Sixth Foresignt Conference in Santa Clara.
Five major advances were announced. Here is a brief summary of each advance:

1 - Bucky Horns: Sumio Iijima of NEC Corporation, Japan, announced the ability to grow this new class of carbon nanostructures, the next step beyond buckyballs and buckytubes.

2 - Biopowered Nanomotor: Carlo Montemagno of Cornell University announced success in building biological-motor powered mechanical devices. All the tools are now in place to make this happen within a living cell.

3 - Nanomanipulator: MinFeng Yu of Washington University generated excitement by showing the first-ever movies of interactive 3D manipulation of carbon nanotubes, using a new research device built by Zyvex LLC.

4 - Nanotube Transistor: Cees Dekker of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, presented work on buckytubes as a
new kind of molecular quantum wire and a field effect nanotube transistor, called TubeFET.

5 - Single-Molecule Tape Measure: Mark Akeson of University of California, Santa Cruz, announced the use of a molecular pore able to electrically "read" long molecules at high speed, even differentiating among DNA bases in groups as small as five. Next goal: rapidly read DNA base-by-base

Answer 1

Nanotechnology is the design, characterization, production and application of structures, devices and systems by controlling shape and size at the nanoscale. Eight to ten atoms span one nanometer (nm). The human hair is approximately 70,000 to 80,000 nm thick.

Nanotechnology should really be called “nanotechnologies”: There is no single field of nanotechnology. The term broadly refers to such fields as biology, physics or chemistry, any scientific field, or a combination thereof, that deals with the deliberate and controlled manufacturing of nanostructures.The United States' National Nanotechnology Initiative website defines it as follows: "Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications."

Answer 2

yeah man but i dont know much about its pretty crazy. the American military is developing a battle suit that is meant to incorporate nano technology into the fabric its crazy the project is being completed in two stages on being released in 2010 and one being released in 2020 the first project is called "future warrior" its insane the nano technology is being used to develop a fabric that is limp and free to move when it is in its normal state but once the suit is disrupted by say a bullet or shrapnel electrical currents running through the suit are broken and the material becomes rigid. the suit sits about 4 inches of the body and is meant to allow the soldier to be able to withstand attacks that would normally destroy a tank. this stuff is unbelievable i dont know to much about it but if you want to read more do a google search on "future warrior" and you should be able to find the press release

Answer 3

Yeah, answered an earlier question about that. Or asked it, I forget which.

Very fascinating stuff. Very.

Didn't hear about all the points you posted. But being very small is getting really big.

I mean, manipulating complex molecules (like DNA) is kind of huge. It changes life. But we are starting to get to the atom level.

Very interesting times.

-Dio

Answer 4

It is technology at a very tiny scale.By the use of this u can manufacture a motor made up of a few molecules and can install it on ur eyeball.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Nano technology has been around for a while now. Unfortunately Nano technology or quantum physics are not my forte.

Answer 7

nano technology is related to biotechnology. its used for some dna stuff according to my information