Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Made Clear

from Earl Boysen, Co-author of Nanotechnology For Dummies

Nanotechnology can be a complicated topic. The Understanding Nanotechnology Website is dedicated to providing clear and concise explanations of nanotechnology applications along with information on companies working in each area.

Check out our latest feature, Cancer Treatment Advances Using Nanotechnology. You can find information on this and other nanotechnology applications through the links to the left, or browse through the topics introduced below.

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Introduction to Nanotechnology             

Nanotechnology is the study and use of structures between 1 nanometer and 100 nanometers in size. To give you an idea of just how small that is, it would take eight hundred 100-nanometer particles placed side by side to equal the width of a human hair.

Scientists have been studying and using particles of this size for centuries, but the effectiveness of their work has been limited because they have not been able to see the structure of nanoparticles until recently. The development in the last few decades of microscopes that are capable of displaying particles as small as atoms has allowed scientists to see what they are working with.

This ability to see their materials makes a huge difference... Click here to read the rest of Introduction to Nanotechnology.


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