Friday, December 06, 2002

What is Nanotechnology?


Go to TechTV to download cool nanotechnology simulations.

Dave Roos of Tech TV states, "Nanotechnology is science on an incredibly small scale. A nanometer, by definition, is one-billionth of a meter. To give you some perspective, an object that is 10 nanometers wide is still 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a single human hair.

Nanotechnology is the creation of functional devices and materials with a length no greater than 100 nanometers. In essence, the goal of nanotechnology is to build microscopic machines with molecular gears that perform useful, real-world tasks. Download these computer simulations of nanogears in action, courtesy of NASA. The teeth of each gear are single benzyne molecules."

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