Nanotechnology is emerging as one of the 21st century technologies. More than half century has passed since a famous physicist Richard P. Feynman (1959) predicted its possibility by his talk on “There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom” on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology. What is the modern meaning of nanotechnology? It is a general term covering a wide range of many fields ranging over such as electronics, photonics, mechanics, micro-machines, and biomaterials. We may recognize that it is not as yet a science that is theoretically arranged, nor an engineering that is systematically structured, such as physics and electrical engineering (Iijima 1991). It deals with characteristics in nanometer size and/or mesoscopic regions on materials and functional devices. It should be stressed that macroscopic performances must appear as collective behaviors of individual performances at the nanometric level. Therefore, it is a key issue for us to control mesoscopic characteristics. Then, it is expected that such a nanotechnology will bring about enormous innovation in various fields such as structural materials, resources and energy, communication and electronics, biotechnology, environmental safety, medicine, and health.
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Polymer nanocomposites: fundamentals and possible applications to power sectors - Cigré - Working Group D1. 24
MONTANARI, GIAN CARLO;
2011
Abstract
Nanotechnology is emerging as one of the 21st century technologies. More than half century has passed since a famous physicist Richard P. Feynman (1959) predicted its possibility by his talk on “There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom” on December 29th 1959 at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society at the California Institute of Technology. What is the modern meaning of nanotechnology? It is a general term covering a wide range of many fields ranging over such as electronics, photonics, mechanics, micro-machines, and biomaterials. We may recognize that it is not as yet a science that is theoretically arranged, nor an engineering that is systematically structured, such as physics and electrical engineering (Iijima 1991). It deals with characteristics in nanometer size and/or mesoscopic regions on materials and functional devices. It should be stressed that macroscopic performances must appear as collective behaviors of individual performances at the nanometric level. Therefore, it is a key issue for us to control mesoscopic characteristics. Then, it is expected that such a nanotechnology will bring about enormous innovation in various fields such as structural materials, resources and energy, communication and electronics, biotechnology, environmental safety, medicine, and health.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
