Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Well, nowadays, many people talk about nanotechnology. Do you honestly know what nanotechnology is? The basic definition of nanotechnology is that it's the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. But in its original sense, nanotechnology represents the projected ability to construct items from the bottom up. So, it means that nanotechnology gives scientists the ability to create new materials, atom by atom. With increasingly more powerful microscopes, scientists can see molecules mere nanometers or even billionths of a meter in size. Working on a scale smaller than what easily can be seen is possible only with powerful microscopes. Nanotechnology is mostly just chemistry, and most people are extremely bored with chemistry, so most likely this field will interest only scientists.