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What is Nanotechnology?

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) defines nanotechnology as the understanding and control of matter at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications. Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale.

A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick; a single gold atom is about a third of a nanometer in diameter. Dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers are known as the nanoscale. Unusual physical, chemical, and biological properties can emerge in materials at the nanoscale. These properties may differ in important ways from the properties of bulk materials and single atoms or molecules.

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Practical uses of Nanotechnology:

• Cheap and Clean energy (fuel cells)
• Clean Water (Inexpensive water purification)
• Clean biological spills and detect and identify harmful chemicals and biological agents in the environment
• Added to other materials, nanotechnology can be used to improve materials and create new improved products