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Nanotechnology
* Nanotechnologies are academic journals
  - engineering
  - tools that measure and manipulate phenomena and objects at the nanoscale
* addresses all types of material, whether they be inorganic or organic.
* also demands completely new manufacturing processes.
* builds on engineering tradition
  - the atomic and molecular levels
* can break the chains of waste and exploitation
  - change the economics of energy production
* consists of applying the science of the small.
* developed by engineers contrasts with the bionanotechnology used in living cells.
* discusses ways of arranging atoms.
* enables precise manufacturing from the bottom up.
* field that has matured considerably in the past decade.
* focuses on building extremely small devices and systems atom by atom.
* fusion of molecular biology, biochemistry, genetic engineering.
* goes beyond electronics and computers.
* has an enormous variety of applications
  - the ability to rearrange atoms in order to make manufactured products
* has the potential to change the nature of almost every human-made object
  - have a positive effect on the environment
  - improve dramatically our environment and energy use
  - tremendous potential for advancing medicine
* implies the direct control of atoms and molecules.
* involves creating new materials by the manipulation of individual atoms
  - very tiny machines or robots no larger than a few nanometers
  - the creation of materials and devices at the atomic and molecular level
  - tools and machines that operate at macromolecular dimensions
* is about creating self-replicating structures measured very small sizes
  - also the construction and operation of machines on the nanometer scale
* is an emerging field of materials science
  - technology of the very small
  - another example of physics in use today for the world of tomorrow
  - commonplace
  - critical because the sensing end of the system depends on it
  - currently in a very infantile stage
  - fabrication of devices with atomic or molecular scale precision
  - important because it is the next level of creative science
  - machines built on a scale of nanometers
  - miniaturization engineering at the nanometer scale
* is molecular manufacturing or, building things one atom at a time
  - more simply, building things one atom at a time
  - only one of the fields that is becoming intertwined with electronics
  - really an engineering process
  - small scale engineering at the extreme
  - so broad that it can be separated into many divisions and subdivisions
  - the ability to control mater at the atomic or molecular level
* is the ability to manipulate matter at the molecular level
  - one atom or molecule at a time
  - creation of useful materials and structures sized at the nanometer scale
  - engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale
  - fabrication of devices or structures on an atomic or molecular level
  - fledgling science of manufacturing at the near-atomic level
  - manipulation of matter on the nanoscale
  - name given to the practice of engineering structures and devices atom by atom
  - new science of building with objects at a molecular and atomic level
  - science and engineering of the very small
* is the science of creating materials and machines at the atomic and molecular levels
  - and machines at the atomic level
* is the science of engineering and constructing devices of individual atoms
  - making ever-smaller electronic devices
* is the science of manipulating individual atoms to build devices and circuits
  - matter on the atomic and molecular level
  - theoretical side of atomic manufacturing, and molecular manufacturing
  - to the physical world what the Internet is to information
* looks to be one of the great trends of the future.
* manipulates atoms and molecules to create new and smaller products.
* means more than making a smaller version of something.
* nascent industry with undetermined potential.
* needs the tools to make working, three-dimensional nano machines possible.
* often requires using trillions of trillions of nanomachines as a team.
  * Generally, when people talk about nanotechnology, they mean structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller. There are one million nanometers in a millimeter. Nanotechnology tries to make materials or machines of that size.
* presents new opportunities to create better materials and products.
* process of manufactuering materials on the molecular and atomic levels.
* promises to change life with molecular machines.
* refers to components only a few nanometers in size
  - nanometer-scale science and technology
* represents the ability to engineer structures and devices on the nanometer scale.
* seeks to command matter at the molecular, atomic and even subatomic level.
* sort of micro-science.
* threatens to make fantasy and science fiction harder to write.
* uses chemistry extensively because the scale of molecules is the domain of chemistry
  - small nanomachines to build anything in the world atom by atom