The Tiny Guide to Nanotechnology

What’s the tiniest technology you can imagine? As small as a grain of rice? Or a grain of sand? Perhaps the width of an individual strand of spider web? Smaller still.

Nanotechnology is so small, in fact, it is narrower than a single wavelength of visible light. To put that in perspective, it’s about the length your fingernails have grown since you started reading this overview.

But when we talk about nanotechnology, we don’t mean anything with a circuit board, but the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.

By utilising carbon nanotubes in a certain way, it’s possible to create tiny computer chips. With tiny chips come tiny computers and tiny robots. And with tiny robots – or nanobots, if you will – a whole world of possibilities opens up… 3D printers, invisibility cloaks, space elevators – you name it!

Of course, with all exciting, experimental and potentially disruptive innovations come areas for concern. What impact could such technology have on our security, or the economy? How can it be regulated?

Find out more in this explainer video from iluli by Mike Lamb – explaining the ideas and innovations changing our lives.

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And we often knew the insights of nanotechnology through the help of Sci fi movies and various science exhibitions and articles. And you were exactly right about these advance techs. IT can be fatal if it falls down into wrong hands or wrong person.However There are strict laws for these issues.That's why most of the time, these techs are being functional just as a prototypes models. Various time, We often try to be steps ahead of the time, but as a result, almost everytime, we had paid our prices. However, I am looking forward to it.

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