ABSTRACT:
Today’s most intriguing, curiositydriven
and promising area of technology
is by far the “nanotechnology”.
Technology concerns the building of
useful things based on known scientific
principles. Thus ‘nanotechnology’
means building of useful things based on
things of dimensions at the nanometer
level. The scientific community to
describe various phenomena occurring
in these tiny structural domains often
uses various words with prefix ‘nano’.
Understanding of the science of
nanomaterials is important and
curiosity-driven not only because of the
fascinating nature of the subject itself
but also for its overwhelming and novel
applications of various nanoscale
systems in almost all branches of
technology. Nanotechnology cuts across
disciplines without a thought. From
physics, we have tools that allow us to
see and manipulate matter at
unprecedented small scales. From
chemistry, we have methods for
synthesizing and assembling molecules,
from materials science; we know that
this is also the scale of a cell. The reason
that nanotechnology is causing so much
excitement is the potential to bring
together all these disciplines to tackle
common problems—and, of course, solve
them with a plethora of new applications.
The present paper attempts in a nutshell
to give a peripheral sketch towards the
understanding of this amazing subject of
nanomaterials.
and promising area of technology
is by far the “nanotechnology”.
Technology concerns the building of
useful things based on known scientific
principles. Thus ‘nanotechnology’
means building of useful things based on
things of dimensions at the nanometer
level. The scientific community to
describe various phenomena occurring
in these tiny structural domains often
uses various words with prefix ‘nano’.
Understanding of the science of
nanomaterials is important and
curiosity-driven not only because of the
fascinating nature of the subject itself
but also for its overwhelming and novel
applications of various nanoscale
systems in almost all branches of
technology. Nanotechnology cuts across
disciplines without a thought. From
physics, we have tools that allow us to
see and manipulate matter at
unprecedented small scales. From
chemistry, we have methods for
synthesizing and assembling molecules,
from materials science; we know that
this is also the scale of a cell. The reason
that nanotechnology is causing so much
excitement is the potential to bring
together all these disciplines to tackle
common problems—and, of course, solve
them with a plethora of new applications.
The present paper attempts in a nutshell
to give a peripheral sketch towards the
understanding of this amazing subject of
nanomaterials.
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