What I know about Nanotechnology is that it is a sort of manipulation of mater. I do not know much else apart from that.
What you wonder or questions you have about the topic before researching (at least 2)
1. What I wonder about Nanotechnology is if it is dangerous and if so why?
2. What countries have this technology and what can it be used for?
3. Could it be a weapon used in war?
4. What are products of Nanotechnology?
Links to where you found the most useful information (at least 2, NOT Wikipedia, although you can use it to help you)
How Nanotechnology Works
What Is Nanotechnology?
Products That Use Nanotechnology
Apparently All Products With Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology Designs
Bullet list of things you learned about the topic (at least 5)
- Things I learned about this topic are:
- Nanotechnology is a technology so new that scientists do not know what will come of it. Their are predictions and they range from self replicating nano robots that devour flesh, to reproducing diamonds and food.
- Their are many units of measurement but none compare to the nanometer. A nanometer is equivalent to one billionth of a meter.
- Their are nobel prize winners that have said: In a lecture called "Small Wonders:The World of Nanoscience," Nobel Prize winner Dr. Horst Störmer said that the nanoscale is more interesting than the atomic scale because the nanoscale is the first point where we can assemble something -- it's not until we start putting atoms together that we can make anything useful. (http://www.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm) What this scientist basically said here is that you can build things at the nano scale!
- I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously. . . The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is not an attempt to violate any laws; it is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are too big. — Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize winner in physics (http://crnano.org/whatis.htm) What he says here is that he does not see the possibility to maneuver things atom by atom. In principle building things so small they would not be visible to the eye but they could function perfectly. He says that we have not done this because we are to big. The possibility of having so many factories in a small space is thanks to nanotechnology and its size.
- There are many generation products of nanotechnology:
As you can clearly see on this visual aid, is that nanotechnology can be harmless as it can be dangerous. But overall it seems to be a good advancement in science. Nanotechnology are in products that we use on a regular basis. I included a link on the links of useful information on lots of products that have nanotechnology.
- Nanotechnology is in many products that I did not even suspect had it. Such as tennis rackets, umbrellas, pants, computer processors, hair dryers, cars and many other things.
A short summary of how this topic connects/relates to you or your life
How does nanotechnology relate to my life? Well nanotechnology is in many products that we all use on a regular basis. For example sun screen, in my case tennis rackets. In your case Ms.Shawn hair care products and stuff that girls use on their faces. We owe lots of things due to nanotechnology. The clothes that we use some have nanotechnology, some of which are waterproof. My computer processor uses nanotechnology, and many other things that I would have never expected to have nanotechnology has it. Just look at the link and be amazed: http://www.nanotechproject.org/inventories/consumer/browse/products/
(I already included this link above in the useful links)
Questions you still have (at least 1)
1. This field could develop into building weapons, if so how deadly would these weapons be?
2. How much of a threat would these weapons be on society.
