Nano tech is an important aspect of our daily lives. It is
changing the world in the way we live, creating scientific inventions and new
products that are smaller, faster, stronger, safer, and more reliable. In this modern world Nanotech is used in many
different ways. Example it’s used create
computer chips and other devices that are thousands of times smaller than
current technologies and even used in medicines that help save human
lives. Nanotech controls matter which
means Nanotech controls everything because everything in this world pretty much
have matter in them.
Figure 1
In this week materials I learnt that nanotech is the control
of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers (nm), and a
nanometer is one-billionth of a meter making it smaller than the wavelength of
visible light and a hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair. So you can
see that it’s very small. Even though nanotech is very small, it very important in our daily lives because it helps to manufacture many useful things we use everyday.
Figure 2
Nanotech are helping producers manufacture self-cleaning
household products that will allow you to spray a Nano-chemical onto the grime
in your kitchen and watch it disappear and practically never come back, since
many Nano-chemicals also prevent grime from accumulating. Through farther
research I discovered that Nanotechnology is already being used in products like cosmetics
and sunscreens and most importantly they are used in more effective drugs,
which prevent human being from dying from diseases and viruses.
Video: 10 Awesome Facts About Nanotechnology
Since you cannot see the nanotech’s it hard to believe they
exist but when they are combined together with art they are able to make something so
miniscule and abstract appear real to the ordinary eye. A project is was being
carried out by nanoscience, media arts, and humanities experts at UCLA, which its
purpose is to allow people to experience nanotechnology by sensing it, even
when they can't see it. This show how important nanotech’s are crucial to our daily
lives , even though they are not visible to the naked eye. With the world changing and new technologies being invented everyday, art and nanotech are bound to help create many great inventions that will create medicines to help cure different diseases that seemed impossible to cure years ago.
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Very informative post. I think you did a good job of covering all the different aspects of nanotechnology and even bringing it around to art. The UCLA project you mentioned about helping people get a sense of nanotechnology even though it is something they cannot normally see should really benefit the nanotech industry. If people are more aware of the uses for nanotech, more inventions can be made using it and our world will get a lot better for the foreseeable future. Good job!
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