About Nanotechnology

The field of Nanotechnology is vast and touches industries from medicine to transportation. Around the world researchers and students are exploring the world at the nano level and have impacted many products, processes, and services through their efforts.

About Nanotechnology

The field of Nanotechnology is vast and touches industries from medicine to transportation.  Around the world researchers and students are exploring the world at the nano level and have impacted many products, processes, and services through their efforts.

On TryNano.org, we have gathered resources to help you explore the global impact of Nanotechnology.. By reviewing the materials, applications, and current areas of research, we hope you’ll experience Nanotechnology in a new light.

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Social Implications

Many potential applications of nanotechnologyhave social implications. Enhanced computing and sensing, for example, can be very useful objectives in the right hands – they can improve human welfare, and support healthcare, safety, information exchange, and entertainment. However, in the wrong hands, these technologies also enable more effective surveillance and analysis of communication that may be…

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History of Nanotechnology

History of Nanotechnology As is the case with many other disciplines, applications of nanotechnology (for example, in making steel and creating paintings) were in use centuries before the field was formally defined. Early contributors to the field include James Clark Maxwell (Scottish physicist and mathematician, 1831-1879) and Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (Austrian-German chemist, 1865-1929).  Zsigmondy studied colloids (chemical mixtures where one substance…

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The Future of Nanotechnology

The Future of Nanotechnology The future of nanotechnology has been a subject of many scientific and nonscientific speculations, including several doomsday visions in popular culture that predicted self-replicating nano particles taking part in massive assaults on humanity and the environment.  An example of such scenario is given in Michael Crichton popular novel Prey, where “grey goo”…

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