This could be the discovery of the century' Depending, of course, on how far down it goes'

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Nanotechnology ?
This could be the discovery of the century.
Depending, of course, on how far down it goes.
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TECHNOLOGY WAVES
IMPACT
New FunctionalMaterials
Microelectronics
Biotechnology
Solid State Physics
Biological Science
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
2025
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• Worked on the Manhattan Project
• Nobel Laureate (Physics 1965)
• Drum player
• Smoked pot
• Picked up women in bars

• Gave massages
• Learned to draw nudes
• Persuaded women to pose for him
• Skilled at picking yale locks
• Died 1988

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Nobel Prize Physics 1986
Heinrich Rohrer Gerd Binnig
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JEOL 2200 FS Double Aberration Corrected
(TEM/STEM) Electron Microscope
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NANOPARTICLE has diameter of 1 to 100 nanometres
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Professor Andre Geim University of Manchester
Each keratin hair produces a miniscule force of
10-7 N, but with millions of hairs together, the
adhesion is 10 N cm-2
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PROPERTY CHANGES
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PROPORTION OF SURFACE ATOMS
1 in 107
1 cm3
1 nm3
80 on surface
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1 mm3
1 million billion 10 nanometre cubes make up a 1
mm cube
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PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLES
Conditions 25oC, pH7, in water
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UNUSUAL PROPERTIES OF NANOPARTICLES
Thermal
Mechanical
Electronic
Magnetic
Optical
Surface
Interfacial
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MARKETS
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WORLD MARKET FOR NANO / NANOMODIFIED PRODUCTS
Sales in billion
1 trillion
NanoBusiness Alliance
DG Bank / VDI
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10 of World Market in 2015 estimated at
65 billion
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IMPACT OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
MARKETS
NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
NANO-DEVICES
NANOMATERIALS
TIME-SCALE
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STRONGER AND LIGHTER WEIGHT MATERIALS
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Clay
Good dispersionis crucial