Why did I choose this topic and what did I learn from it?

Nanotechnology is one of the best topics that have fascinated me throughout my life. It is a technology that has no limits. It can attend to the imaginary world that we were just watching in science fiction movies (the future). Now it appears that scientists are evolving in this domain so as to attend this science fiction future, earlier than we have ever imagined before.

I have learned a lot of things about this new technology throughout my researches, like for example in the nanomedicine field, I learnt that nanotechnology is in its way to cure all types of cancer; in addition to that I have learned that this technology can change the arrangement of molecules in an object and turn the object to a more lighter, stronger and more durable object than before…

As you can see I have just stated some extremely small points that nanotechnology can do, but of course it can do  a lot more. A lot of things have already been accomplished and a lot of things will be accomplished in the near future.

So my specific purpose to learn from this technology is to know how it can evolve in the medical field and to know what is its limit in that field. The question that nobody can still answer is:"Can this new technology attend to the level of curing all types of diseases?"

A small introduction to the extremely huge world of the Nantotechnology

WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY?

Nanotechnology, perhaps you’ve heard the term in many places, but what in the world is this new technology? The nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter (A matter is any object that has a mass and occupies a space) to make it do what we want it do at the molecular or what scientists call it, at the nano scale. One nanometer equals one billion of a meter.  Just to give you an idea of how small a nanometer can be well an ant is about  5 million nm long, a red blood cell is 7500nm, a DNA is 2nm long another example is that if you take a single hair from your head you notice how it is very thin, well it if you take something which is a 100000 times thinner than that, that's a nanometer. So nanotechnology is really something which is extremely small. 

 

This information is based on " oknano.com" & "kqed.org/quest"