Week 8

This week’s material on Nanotechnology and Art was very interesting to me because it dealt a great deal with the future and how nanotechnology could help us. It seems as though nanotechnology is something we haven’t even begun to touch the surface of and that is exciting in this day in age where we are so advanced as a society. Not only can this technology benefit our well being by purifying the planet such as with nanobubbles but it has the potential to create many jobs and change our societal perspective on how we go about our everyday practices.
In the lecture this week with Dr. Gimzewski something that stood out to me was the slide consisting of how nanotechnology changes what a substance appears as or even how it reacts. For example a stable material on a normal scale can become combustible on a nano scale and an opaque material on a normal scale becomes transparent on a nano scale. This property of nanotechnology is promising for the future that we can actually manipulate substances into a different material giving us more uses and functions of that single substance. Nanotechnology opens a whole new world of using our natural resources in a different and beneficial way that will affect industries across the board.


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Works Cited

Costello, Sam. "What to Know about Apple's 5th Gen IPod Nano." Lifewire. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2017.

"Nanotechnology." American Chemistry Matters. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2017.

"NSI Corporated | Nano1 System." NSI Incorporated｜Mirco/Nano Bubble. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2017.

Rothemund, Paul. "DNA Folding, in Detail." Paul Rothemund: DNA Folding, in Detail | TED Talk | TED.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 May 2017.

Uconlineprogram. "Nanotech Jim Pt3." YouTube. YouTube, 21 May 2012. Web. 29 May 2017.


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