Nanotech

Nanometer

One billionth of a meter

Technology

Usage, knowledge of tools, machines to perform a function

Nanotechnology

Study of manipulating matter on an atomic scale

Construction and engineering of the functional systems

Richard Feynman 1959

First ever nanotech concepts was presented

Norio Taniguchi 1974

Coined the term Nanotechnology

Timeline

2000 Passive Nanostructures

2005 Active Nanostructures

2010 Systems of Nanosystems

2015 Molecular Nanosystems

Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Invented in 1981

Fullerene (C60) 1985

Led to the emergence of nanotech

Nanolithography Techniques

Optical lithography, X ray litography, Electron beam litography (inkjet printer)

Carbon Nanotube

Allotropes of carbon with a cylindrical nanostrure

Nanotubes (Fullerene structural family)

Graphene

long, hollow, one atom thick sheets of carbon

Nanorods

Morphology of nanoscale objects synthesized from metals or semiconducting materials.

Nanobots

Still in R&D phase, necessary to work in large numbers, microscopic

Morph

Super hydrophobic making it extremely dirt repellant