The World of Nanotechnology

Experts sometimes disagree about what the nanometer scale, but in general, you can on this subject, with something to compete between 1 nm and 100 is larger than the microscale and smaller than the atomic scale.
Nanotechnology is increasingly becoming a multidisciplinary field. Biologists, chemists, physicists and engineers involved in the study nanometer materials. Dr. Stormer hopes that the various disciplines to create a common language and communicate with others. Only then, he says, can effectively teach nanoscience, because you are not the world of nanotechnology to understand, without strong background in various sciences.

One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of the nanometer, the role of quantum mechanics while playing. The rules of quantum mechanics are very different from classical physics, which means that the behavior of materials at the nanoscale may sometimes conflict with common sense, which in themselves unpredictable. You can not walk into the wall and immediately teleport to the other side, but the nanometer scale electron - this is called electron tunneling. Materials that are insulators, can not carry an electrical charge can be in the form of bulk semiconductors, the nano-scale reduces. Melting points can be caused by an increase in the surface. Many of nano science, you forget what you know and learn and start again.

What does it all mean? At this moment it means that scientists experimenting with materials in the nanoscale, learn about their characteristics and how we can use in different applications.Engineers try nano-wires, the smaller, more powerful processors to make. Doctors seek ways to use nanoparticles in medical applications. However, we have a long way to go before dominating the technology, nanotechnology and medical markets go.

The next section will focus on two main buildings of nanotechnology carbon nanotubes and nanofibers.