| Nanotechnology is extremely inter-disciplinary, | | | | nanoscale machines and nanoscale devices for |
| comprises of physics, chemistry, biology, materials | | | | integration into micro- and macro scale systems. Once |
| science, and the full variety of the engineering | | | | again, nature has led the way with the manufacture of |
| disciplines. The word nanotechnology is been used | | | | both linear and rotary molecular motors. These |
| widely as shorthand to refer to both the technology of | | | | biological machines perform such tasks as muscle |
| emerging field and science. Basically defined, | | | | contraction (in organisms array from clams to humans) |
| nano-science comprises the basic understanding of | | | | and carrying little packets of material around within |
| physical, biological and chemical properties on atomic | | | | cells as being powered by the eco-friendly, |
| and near-atomic scales. Nanotechnology, barely | | | | energy-efficient fuel adenosine triphosphate. Scientists |
| defined, employs controlled manipulation of these | | | | are only starting to grow the tools to make functioning |
| atomic properties to make materials and as well other | | | | systems at such small scales, with most proceeds |
| functional system with exclusive capabilities. | | | | based on electronic or magnetic date processing and |
| Contrary to recent engineering hard work, nature | | | | other storage systems. The energy-efficient, |
| developed nanotechnologies over billions of years, | | | | reconfigurable, and as well self-repairing aspects of |
| employing enzymes and catalysts to manage with | | | | biological systems are now becoming understood. |
| beautiful accuracy various types of atoms and | | | | The likely impact of nanotechnology processes, |
| molecules into compound microscopic structures, which | | | | machines, and products is predictable to be extensive, |
| make life probable. These natural products are built | | | | affecting almost every imaginable information |
| with huge competence and have inspiring capabilities, | | | | technology, energy source, farming product, medical |
| like the power to yield solar energy, to change minerals | | | | device, pharmaceutical, and other material used in |
| and water into livelihood cells, to store and procedure | | | | developed. In the meantime, the dimensions of |
| huge amounts of data using great arrays of nerve | | | | electronic circuits on semiconductors carry on shrinking, |
| cells, and to copy completely billions of bits of | | | | with minimum characteristic sizes now reaching the |
| information stored in molecules of deoxyribonucleic | | | | nanorealm, under 100 nanometers. They are huge |
| acid (DNA). | | | | markets driven by the fast advance of information |
| Even more ground-breaking will be the manufacture of | | | | technology. |