 - 1959 the great physicist Richard Feynman suggested that it should be possible to build machines small enough to manufacture objects with atomic precision.
- 1970's, Eric Drexler began to invent what would become molecular manufacturing. He quickly realized that molecular machines could control the chemical manufacture of complex products, including additional manufacturing systems which would be a very powerful technology.
- 1986 Drexler introduced the term "nanotechnology" in his book Engines of Creation to describe this approach to manufacturing and some of its consequences.
- 1992 Drexler published Nanosystems, a technical work outlining a way to manufacture extremely high-performance machines out of molecular carbon lattice. Meanwhile, he was also engaging in policy activism to raise awareness of the implications of the technology. (2) Click Here For Daily News on Nanotechnology |
All information that is gathered in this web site is adapted from other web sites. Nanotechnology involves the manipulation of particles on a nanoscale. The function and out come of those products depend on how those atoms are arranged. For example, atoms in coal are rearranged to produce man-made diamonds. Many manufacturing methods today utilize crude technologies lacking specificity. Similar to making things out of LEGO blocks with boxing gloves. The LEGO can be pushed into great heaps and be piled up, but they can't really snap them together the way they should.
Advances in nanotechnology science is begining to allow us to take off the boxing gloves. We will be able to snap together the fundamental building blocks of nature easily, inexpensively and in most of the ways permitted by the laws of physics. This will be essential to fabricate an entire new generation of medicine that are faster, stronger, and more precise.
The word "nanotechnology" has become very popular and is used to describe many types of research where the characteristic dimensions are less than about 1,000 nanometers. (1) |
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