Definition of nanotechnology
: the science of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale especially to build microscopic devices (such as robots)
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Of the six, Anatoly Chubais remains closest to the Kremlin as head of the Russian state nanotechnology company Rusnano.
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Heller’s laboratory designs nanotechnologies that improve the detection and treatment of cancer.
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Topics include material advancement, cost-effective chemical solutions for sustainable production and nanotechnology innovations for offshore drilling.
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Much of the amazing physics research in the 21 st Century is now being applied to the field of nanotechnology, which allows us to construct molecular and atomic formations.
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Cour Pharmaceutical in Chicago and Takeda Pharmaceutical in Japan are using nanotechnology to try to reprogram the body’s immune system to enable patients to develop a tolerance to gluten and potentially reverse symptoms of the disease.
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Experts said the discovery was one of the first triumphs of the new field of nanotechnology, the ability to build and manipulate assemblies of atoms only a nanometer (a billionth of a meter) in size.
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This is the essence of nanotechnology and what’s possible with it.
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Into the Lab Since Kanzius first built his machine, there have been tremendous scientific advances in both nanotechnology and cancer research.
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Nanotechnology, or nanotech for short, deals with matter at a level that most of us find hard to imagine, since it involves objects with dimensions of 100 billionths of a meter (1/800th of the thickness of a human hair) or less. The chemical and physical properties of materials often change greatly at this scale. Nanotechnology is already being used in automobile tires, land-mine detectors, and computer disk drives. Nanomedicine is a particularly exciting field: Imagine particles the size of a blood cell that could be released into the bloodstream to form into tiny robots and attack cancer cells, or "machines" the size of a molecule that could actually repair the damaged interiors of individual cells.
First Known Use of nanotechnology
1974
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: the science of working with atoms and molecules to build devices (such as robots) that are extremely small
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