Nanotechnology

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Nanotechnology

• Technology of the Future

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Major Aspects of Nanotechnology

• What is it?
• How did it come about?
• What are the social implications?
• What does this mean for the future?

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Definitions

• Nano means one billionth.

• Nanotechnology - Deals with moleculues between
  one and one hundred nanometers in diameter.
  Manipulating individual atoms and manufacturing
  from the bottom up.

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Major Aspects of Nanotechnology

• What is it?
• How did it come about?
• What are the social implications?
• What does this mean for the future?

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History of Nanotechnology

• E mc2
• Atomic bomb
• Biotechnology/Genetic Engineering
• Quantum Physics
• Nanophase materials

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Nanotechnology Past and Present

• (A) a hand holding a computer chip.
• (B) computer chip
• (C) living cell placed on the chip
• (D) two nanocomputers beside the cell.
• (E) shows an irregular protein from the cell on
  the lower right, and a cylindrical gear made by
  molecular manufacturing at top left.
• (F) shows two atoms in the protein,
• (G) reveals the nucleus of the atom as a tiny
  speck.
• Below 35 xenon atoms spell out a familiar logo

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A demonstration on the molecular level
A nano-motor manipulated by two laser beams
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Major Aspects of Nanotechnology

• What is it?
• How did it come about?
• What are the social implications?
• What does this mean for the future?

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Positive Effects on Society
Above Nanomachines could allow for cleaner
energy production
Right Nanomachines in the blood stream
patrolling for viruses
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Positive Effects on Society (Medical Applications)
Nanomachines could travel through the bloodstream
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Negative Effects on Society
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Major Aspects of Nanotechnology

• What is it?
• How did it come about?
• What are the social implications?
• What does this mean for the future?

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The Future with Nanotechnology
Left A nano-gear Right A nano-universal-joint
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The Future with Nanotechnology
Above A nano-bearing Right A nano-factory
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If it falls into the wrong hands
Genocide and ethnic cleansing (pictures from
Kosovo)
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Some Final Thoughts

• Still a young science, but could take off at any
  time
• Presents wonderful opportunities
• Presents terrible opportunities

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References
Calvin - http//www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/
chapt_1.html Scale drawing - http//www.foresight.
org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_2.html IBM Atoms -
Courtesy of IBM Research Division
http//www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_4.h
tml Nanofactory - http//www.foresight.org/UTF/Unb
ound_LBW/chapt_3.html Graphite/Diamond -
http//www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_3.h
tml Environment - http//www.foresight.org/UTF/Unb
ound_LBW/chapt_9.html Patrollers -
http//www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_10.
html Mike's Fav. Pic - http//nano.xerox.com/nano/
Nanogear - http//www.nano-technology.com/nanozin
e/nanogear.htm Mystery - http//www.nano-technolog
y.com/nanozine/nanogear.htm Blood video -
http//www.ccs.ornl.gov/vizlab/nano.html Blood
still - http//nano.xerox.com/nanotech/nano4/tuzun
/paper2/fig1paper2.jpg Nanomotor video/still -
http//www.ccs.ornl.gov/vizlab/nano.html Garbled
molecules - http//www.wadsworth.org/albcon97/abst
ract/guo.htm IBM Radio - http//www.campus.bt.com/
CampusWorld/pub/ScienceNet/soundofsci/solutions/na
no.html Bearing - http//nano.xerox.com/nanotech/c
ompNano.html Debate - http//www.lysator.liu.se/ls
ff/confuse96/Nanotechnology.html Yugoslavia -
http//www.gov.yu/terrorism/index.html Kosovo -
http//www.cnn.com