Smart Materials and Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology refers to the department of technology and engineering committed to designing, producing, and the use of structures, devices, and systems through manipulating atoms and molecules at nanoscale, i.E. Having one or extra dimensions of the order of one hundred nanometres (one hundred millionth of a millimetre) or much less. In the natural global, there are numerous examples of systems with one or more nanometre dimensions, and lots of technologies have incidentally concerned such nanostructures for decades, however simplest recently has it been feasible to do it deliberately. Many of the applications of nanotechnology contain new materials which have very distinctive homes and new effects compared to the same substances made at larger sizes. This is due to the very high surface to extent ratio of nanoparticles compared to larger debris, and to consequences that seem at that small scale however aren't discovered at large scales.