THE POTENTIAL OF NANOTECHNOLOGY

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Description

Picture of a Neno technology

Smaller is not smallest. The nanotechnology has the advantage of making the components smaller, durable and tougher. It means that this nanotechnology has a possibility of making a water proof, dust proof, antiseptic, moisture proof and shock proof laptop for the children in order to longer the life time of the every single laptop.

For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology


Enabler

  • Research and Development: Physicists.
  • Things getting smaller and smaller.
  • Moore law.
  • Power Electronics Circuit.
  • Demand if Longer life time.
  • Mechanical Engineer and designer.


Inhibitor

  • Nanotechnology is not yet mature.
  • High cost investment.
  • Changing the behavior of the original materials.
  • Energy problem.
  • Heating Problem.


Paradigm

  • The laptop becomes more dust proof, antiseptic, moisture proof and shock proof. It means that the usage of the environment conditions become broader.
  • The differences of the laptop and micro-computer become more difficult to define.


Expert

TU-Delft-
Professor Herre Van der Zant
Molecular Electronics and Devices
Phone: (+31)(0)15 2787733
Telefax: (+31)(0)15 2781413

Timing

  • 1980: Two major developmentsof birth of cluster science and the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM).
  • 1986: The discovery of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes a few years later. In another development, the synthesis and properties of semiconductor nanocrystals were studied. This led to a fast increasing number of semiconductor nanoparticles of quantum dots.


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