Importance of Nanotechnology

If we mentally go back ten years (which in matters of History, ten years are practically nothing, if we consider that the world has thousands of millions of years of existence), surely many will remember that digital cameras were larger or that cell phones were a few centimeters thick. thickness. But as the years go by - just a few years - everything gets smaller, even when mobile phone screens get bigger and bigger in search of high definition.

Part of this "shrinking" of electronic devices is due to nanotechnology, although electronics is not its only field of application. It is an applied science that is capable of controlling and manipulating matter on a scale smaller than one micrometer.. You are surely wondering how much a micrometer is equal to: This unit of measure is one millionth of a meter..

While there is no single driver of investigation in nanotechnology, it is recognized Richard Feynmann, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965, as the first scientist to refer to nanotechnology and the "nanoscale" of science, in a speech he gave in California six years before he won the prestigious Nobel.

As we said, nanotechnology is not only applied to electronics, but also medicine, chemistry, physics and biology -among others- are part of the multidisciplinary field or multidisciplinary assemblage of nanotechnology. We can then say that nanotechnology cuts across various disciplines, thus having multiple fields or areas of intervention. For example, a team of researchers in nanotechnology from Canada, exposed that this applied science could be used in the production of energy, in the manufacture of weapons or defense systems, in the treatment of water to transform it into drinking water, in agricultural and livestock production, in medicine (especially all in the diagnosis of diseases), in the construction building, in the production of transgenic foods, in informatics, and so on.

For this variety of Applications of nanotechnology is that in many countries a large amount of budget, both public and private, is allocated to research and development of new applications from the study through this applied science, which, as we have seen, can bring very good benefits (as in the scope of the feeding or health) as well as perhaps not so positive developments, such as the case of weapons.