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First PDF version of the Opensource Handbook of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Contains only the sections that are more than 25% finished. Please acknowledge the Opensource Handbook of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology if you use this material. The images also appears on the Commons/nanotechnology page
Nanomedicine is the medical application of nanotechnology. [1] Nanomedicine ranges from the medical applications of nanomaterials and biological devices, to nanoelectronic biosensors, and even possible future applications of molecular nanotechnology such as biological machines.
Carbon nanotube technology has shown to have the potential to alter drug delivery and biosensing methods for the better, and thus, carbon nanotubes have recently garnered interest in the field of medicine. The use of CNTs in drug delivery and biosensing technology has the potential to revolutionalize medicine.
Major obstacles to nanotube-based microelectronics include the absence of technology for mass production, circuit density, positioning of individual electrical contacts, sample purity, [79] control over length, chirality and desired alignment, thermal budget and contact resistance. One of the main challenges was regulating conductivity.
Biologically inspired nanotechnology uses biological systems as the inspirations for technologies not yet created. [2] However, as with nanotechnology and biotechnology, bionanotechnology does have many potential ethical issues associated with it. A ribosome is a biological machine.
Nanotechnology is giving rise to nanographene batteries that can store energy more efficiently and weigh less. [26] Lithium-ion batteries have been the primary battery technology in electronics for the last decade, but the current limits in the technology make it difficult to densify batteries due to the potential dangers of heat and explosion ...
Bacteria identification and food quality monitoring using biosensors; intelligent, active, and smart food packaging systems; nanoencapsulation of bioactive food compounds are few examples of emerging applications of nanotechnology for the food industry. [2] Nanotechnology can be applied in the production, processing, safety and packaging of food.
However nanotechnology makes the production of technology, e.g. computers, cellular phones, health technology etcetera, cheaper and therefore accessible to the poor. In fact, many of the most enthusiastic proponents of nanotechnology, such as transhumanists, see the nascent science as a mechanism to changing human nature itself – going beyond ...