nano technology

all i know is about that they work on the nano scale..and nano means 10 to the power of -9.. i also read a bit about the carbon nanotubes..four of these can be used to suspend a tonne of weight from a ceiling..its amazing..note that these nanotubes cannot be seen wid the eyes - not a bad option for the next David Copperfield!! :-)

The term "nanotechnology" has evolved over the years via terminology drift to mean "anything smaller than microtechnology," such as nano powders, and other things that are nanoscale in size, but not referring to mechanisms that have been purposefully built from nanoscale components. See our "Current Uses" page for examples. This evolved version of the term is more properly labeled "nanoscale bulk technology," while the original meaning is now more properly labeled "molecular nanotechnology" (MNT), or "nanoscale engineering," or "molecular mechanics," or "molecular machine systems," or "molecular manufacturing." Recently, the Foresight Institute has suggested an alternate term to represent the original meaning of nanotechnology: zettatechnology.

Wow not really but did go right now and read a little on it. Amazing how thing come up and we do not know what going on around us all the time. So many new things come out everyday and we are not able to keep up with that. Great disscusion

i presented a paper on nanotechnology .. what do u wanna know about.. carbon nanotubes ??

i know about nanotechnology.i also start the discussion about the same. nanotechonology lays stress basically on two concepts:POSITIONAL ASSEMBLY which deals with getting right molecular parts in the right place and massive parallelism which keeps a check on the prices and helps in cutting the costs.