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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology. By Luis Silva. What is nanotechnology?. Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic level. Manipulating nanostructures is of interest because quantum mechanical effects become dominant at the nano scale .

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Nanotechnology

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  1. Nanotechnology By Luis Silva

  2. What is nanotechnology? • Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic level. • Manipulating nanostructures is of interest because quantum mechanical effects become dominant at the nano scale. • It is possible to manipulate nanoparticles to make new types of sturdy, tough, resistant, flexible and conductive products.

  3. Why is nanotechnology the future?

  4. Nanomachines Aiding Human Health • Near Term • Drug delivery system • Tiny laboratory collecting tissue samples or performing surgery without cutting the skin • Destroy detrimental cells (ex. cancer cells)

  5. Making Shapeshifting A Possibility • Claytronics (Programmable Matter) • Midcentury • Eventually build entire cities • Replicator (Molecular Assembler) • End of the century

  6. Strengths • Efficient (nano scale) • Medical diagnosis makes other processes obsolete • God-like function

  7. Weaknesses • Who do you blame if the nanobot misjudges a situation and causes someone’s death? • According to scientists, “nanomaterials have the potential to produce significant sources of nanoparticles into waterways” (Bystrzejewska-Piotrowska, Grazyna, Golimowskiand Pawel6). • Extremely difficult to filter out

  8. Proposals • Embrace change and let’s use nanotechnology • For the most part, nanowaste is the people’s choice • Research has to get going • funding for technology that will test for nanomaterials • Corporations will be regulated • This new technology will be utilized by waste water treatment plants

  9. Proposals Continued • Corporations will be regulated. How? • Testing method will be utilized by waste water treatment plants. • Corporations will have to treat nanomaterials as hazardous waste and not throw it into the water supply • Warning labels

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