This company exported 70 tons of nano enhanced towels to various neighboring countries in 2018 valued at $600,000, according to Iran
Nanotechnology Innovation Council (INIC).
Oakton will offer the four-credit Fundamentals of
Nanotechnology I (PHY 140 0Y1) and Fundamentals of
Nanotechnology II (PHY 141 0Y1) courses in spring 2018.
There are two approaches by which
nanotechnology creates structures: Top down, or bottom up.
Nanotechnology promises to be one of the defining yet controversial innovations of the 21st century.
Nanotechnology has a significant range of potential biomedical applications and is being used to develop nanodevices and structures to prevent, treat and monitor diseases.
A more formal definition offered by the federal government's National
Nanotechnology Initiative website describes it as "the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications." For example, nanostructures can pass through biological barriers without triggering the immune system.
By
nanotechnology we can have better understanding of these biological units so that they can be specifically and precisely guided or directed.
While
nanotechnology is generally more accepted in inert products such as smart phones, many people are skeptical about
nanotechnology in products that they ingest or use on their bodies, such as food or sunscreen.
suggests that patterns of news coverage of
nanotechnology are comparable to those of other new sciences such as agricultural biotechnology, wherein early coverage posits a generally optimistic view of the technology and its potential benefits (Friedman and Egolf, 2005), and with an emphasis on the economic and business implications.
Since 2012, we've received more than $1.5 million in grants to support the
nanotechnology program from such donors the National Science Foundation and the Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust, which has helped to equip our nano lab, develop curriculum, and establish video communication links from the lab to high school and Oakton classrooms.
The inclusion of Science as a Human Endeavour in the Australian Curriculum (ACARA, 2013) and specific reference to emerging technologies such as
nanotechnology, has increased the need for contemporary learning resources informed by research.