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Nano Tech Soft
Nano Tech Soft
Nano Tech Soft
The term nano-technology has evolved over the years via terminology
drift to mean “anything smaller than micro technology” such as nano powders,
microprocessors, micro-data chips, micro machines, which have a capacity much
much more than its macro ones ..
Nanotechnology gets its name from from the measurement called nanometer,
which is one-billionth of a meter—1/80000 the size of human hair. A nanometer
comprises of many small atoms manipulating to form molecule ,the building
blocks that produce new materials with exact properties they desire:smaller,
stronger, tougher, lighter and more resilient than what has come before
In this report you will find interesting creation by Buckminster Fuller “fog”
By giving the proper command to this fog, you can cause any object to appear
anywhere at any time. Thus you can do an angel's job carrying a remote control
shaped like a wand with a star on the end….
Also you will find Microelectronic devices First, in the 1950s and 1960s,
solids state devices-transistors-replaced vacuum tubes and miniaturised all the
devices(e.g., radios, televisions and computers) that originally had been invented
and manufactured using tube technology. Then, starting in the mid-I960s,
successive generations of smaller transistors began replacing larger ones. This
permitted more transistors and more computing power to be packed in the same
small space
If computers are to continue to get smaller and more powerful at the same rate,
nanotechnology will need to be employed for miniature electronic devices
One of such technologies to get the most-micro transistor is “scaling of
transistors”…
2.BUILD A FOG??
3.FUNCTIONING..
2.LIMITS ON SCALABILITY—
4.SINGLE-ELECTRON TRANSISTORS--
INTRODUCTION
Just imagine hard drive capable of holding 1000 times as much data than
those used in computers today. No, this is not something straight out of any
science fiction. It is the future of electronics and computing supported by
nanotechnology. The advances in nanosciences may one day shrink modern day
desktop PCs to the size of wrist watches. It's not just the size that is going to
matter, the nano-revolution is going to give a big boost to power sources, chip
technology and semi-conductors.
Nanoscience is the science that deals with substances in which one
dimension is less than 100 nanometre (nm). A nanometre is one billionth of a
metre and the diameter of human hair is about 50,000 nm.
Nanotechnology is the technology of designing, fabricating and applying
nanosystems. A nanosysytem is a system that is synthesised to a nanometre
scale (a nanometre is a billionth of a metre and spans approximately 10 atomic
metres).
If the programming says "extend when the force is trying to stretch and retract
when it is trying to compress," you have a soft material.
If it says "resist any change up to a certain force, then let go," you have a hard
but brittle material.
If the programming says” maintain a constant total among the extension of all
arms, but otherwise do whatever the forces would indicate, and when a
particular arm gets to the end of its envelope, let go,
look for another arm coming into reach to grab," you have a liquid. and If you
allow the sum of the arm extensions to vary with the sum of the forces on the arms, you'll
Because the foglets can use their own power to move or resist mov ing, the
apparent density and viscosity of the fluid can be anything from molasses to
near vacuum.
BUILD A FOG??
The only major breakthrough necessary to build the fog is Nano technology itself.
Assemblers need to build molecule-size, individually controllable, physical actua-
tors, arms, motors, gears, sprockets, pulleys and the like, and then molecular-
size computers to control them.
The lower limit is 1- or 2-micron body and 5- to lO-micron arms. , 1mm fog lets
might be able to do all the physical tasks of interest
Note that the user, embedded in the fog, is not really looking at it but at a
synthetic image, probably generated by a pair of active holographic contact
Lenses
Invisible individually, would cause scattering good enough for a cluster of them
to look like a cloud.
To be economical, fog should be capable of self-reproduction For you to be
able to afford them, they should cost less than $0.00000000001 a piece.
What foglets don't need is to be individually self-reproducing
Assemblers will be the most efficient when they work in a vat of special
precursor chemicals.
FUNCTIONING—
It consists of 12 arms, which can bend like hands of human with help of
elbows, and has no fist yes but has three fingers
Use of so many arms allows robots to let go briefly to change neighbors,
and still retain strength and connectivity in the structure.
Its three fingers form an extension of the arm when closed and spread
apart at a slight angle when open.
The gripper at the end of each arm has one degree of freedom (rotation)
driven by a weak motor.
The grippers are used solely for gripping the end of another arm in a
straight line. These are designed such that two arms approaching each
other can be slightly off the line and angle, and the coupling process is
compliant.
Once these are coupled, however, the resulting joint is straight and rigid.
Coupling also makes power and communication connections between the
two foglets.
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What if the power fails and you are suddenly encased in solid unyielding ma-
terial?
If foglets have a failsafe mode where they let go their neighbors and retract
their arms as much as possible when they lose power, they would first form
a super heavy smoke or dust storm, and then pack down into something like
clay.
Not something to look forward to. Each foglet would reserve a certain
amount of power for normal operations, since energy flows into as well as out of
the fog in the course of everyday movements.
Furthermore, the fog should carry along small special-purpose batteries/fuel
cells like raisins in a pudding.
Even larger power generators could be carried along with each person, so
their personal cloud of fog could be autonomously worn like a suite of clothes
wherever they go. In a general power failure, the room fog would retract to make
thicker walls and ceiling (where it would lock in place), while your personal batch
continued to help you cope.
Scaling works well to a point. However, once transistor size starts to approach
100 nm, the properties that control the device operation begin to change. Current
designs for microelectronic transistors (see Fig.) are not ideal for molecular-scale
transistors. New designs for nanoelectronic transistors will have to be formulated
Limits on scalability—
Once transistors approach the molecular scale, the bulk properties of solids be-
come the quantum mechanical properties of collections of atoms. Properties of
doped semiconductors will become less evident. Effects such as tunnelling and
energy quantisation will be apparent. Transistor that will work on the molecular
scale must use these new properties, instead of considering them as
disadvantages
Single-electron transistors--
This device has three terminals like an ordinary FET: the outside terminals of tunnel
junctions and a 'gate' terminal that is capacitively coupled to the node between the two
tunnel junctions.
The capacitor may seem like a third tunnel junction, but it is much thicker-than the
others, so no electrons can tunnel through it.
The capacitor simply serves as a way of setting the electric charge on the Coulomb Island
When the gate voltage is set to zero, very little tunnelling occurs through the two
tunnel junctions.
This opposition to tunnelling is called the Coulomb blockade.
However, when the gate voltage is raised to e/2Cg, which corresponds to half of
the charge of an electron on the plates of the gate capacitor, the tunnelling cur-
rent goes up dramatically.
The charge on the gate capacitor can be set to non-integral number of electron
charges because charge transfer in metals is continuous.
As shown in Fig. below, this voltage-controlled current behavior makes the SET's
operation much like that of an FET, but on a much smaller scale
Whenever electrons are constrained to a small region, the effects of energy
quantisation need to be taken into account. In this all-metal type SET, there are
so many electrons in the Coulomb island that these discrete energy levels ap-
pear to be a continuous energy spectrum. In other types of devices that work with
far fewer electrons, energy quantisation plays a much more important role. Quan-
tom dots and reasont tunneling devices are two such devices..
currently being assessed according to feasibility, find their echo in partly extreme
judgments of the technology.
The specific characteristics of this dimension are that nano-particles show
a completely different behavior to their larger, coarser pendants. The relatively
big specific surface of nano-particles usually leads to an increase in their
chemical reactivity and catalytic activity. The relatively small amount of atoms
within nano-particles offsets the quasi-continuous solid state of the particle,
leading to new, deviating, optical, electrical and magnetic features. From these
basic features and characteristics of nano-technology, a number of possible
positive and problematic (negative) effects can be derived.
Characterization of Nanotechnology:
To know about the impact of a technology, we require a familiarity with
three basic elements. Viz.,
1. An Agent (the technology, substance etc whose possible effects are to
assessed);
2. An impact model (a scientifically verifiable theory on how the agent acts
on a potential target)
3. A target entity upon which the agent acts.
One of the basic principles of nanotechnology is positional control. At the
molecular scale, the idea of holding and positioning molecules is new. Before
discussing the advantages of positional control at the molecular scale, it is helpful
to look at the property of self-assembly of molecules. A basic principle in self-
assembly is selective stickiness i.e., if two molecular parts have complementary
shapes and charge patterns-(one part has a hollow where the other part has a
bump, and one part has a positive charge where the other part has the negative
charge). Then they will tend to stick together in one particular way. This bigger
part can combine in the same way with other parts, letting us build a complex
whole from molecular pieces.
While self-assembly is a path to nanotechnology, by itself it would be hard
pressed to make the very wide range of products promised by nanotechnology.
For ex: we don’t know how to self assemble shatterproof diamond without using
positional control through nanotechnology. During self-assembly, the parts
bounce around and
bump into each other in all kinds of ways, and if they stick together when we
don’t want them to stick together, we will get unwanted globs of random parts.
Many types of parts have this problem. So self-assembly won’t work for them.
To make diamond, it seems as though we need to use in-discriminatory sticky
parts (radicals, carbines and the like). These parts cannot be allowed to
randomly bump into each other (or much of anything else, for that matter)
because they would stick together when we didn’t want them to stick together
and form messy blobs instead of precise molecular machines.
We can avoid this problem if we can hold and position the parts. Even
though the molecular parts that are used to make diamond are both in-
discriminatory and very sticky (more technically, the barriers to bond formation
are low and the resulting covalent bonds are quite strong), if we can position
them, we can prevent them from bumping into each other in the wrong way.
When two sticky parts do come into contact with each other, they will do so in the
right orientation because we are holding them in right orientation. In short,
positional control at the molecular scale should let us make things which would
be difficult or impossible to make without it. Given our macroscopic intuition, this
should not be surprising. If we could not use our hands to hold and position parts,
we must develop the molecular equivalent of “arms” and “hands”.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for evaluation of nanotechnology
application:
Following on from the characterization of nanotechnology and the hitherto
existing production methods, we have to next identify the sustainability effects by
process monitoring and evaluation of specific examples of nanotechnology
applications. The most advanced and standardized procedure for evaluating
environmental aspects associated with a product and predicting the product
specific environmental impact is the method of life cycle analysis (LCA) which
should consist of the following stages:
1. Establishing the objectives and the scope of the assessment.
2. Life cycle inventory.
3. Appraisal of impact.
4. Overall evaluation.
Following is the flowchart which clearly illustrates interdependence of these
stages.
Establishing the
objectives and the
scope of the
Direct applications:
assessment
-Development and
improvement of products.
-Strategic Planning.
-Political decision-making
Life-Cycle Overall evaluation
process.
Inventory -Marketing.
-Other.
Appraisal of
impact
The arrows between the individual stages highlight the interactive nature
of the procedure with the outcome of a given step always being fed back into the
preceding stage and resulting, if necessary, in the repetition of the procedure.
The LCA approach also includes methodological deficits: for some of the impact
categories there exists no commonly accepted impact model.
Broad Application of Nanotechnology:
Wide areas of application of nanotechnology are found in every field and
some of them are mentioned as under:
Industry & Production of goods
Stain resistant and wrinkle free fabrics
Amusement and toys
Nano-physics
Nano-chemistry
Nano-energy and,
Nano-medicine and many more..
Establishing
the objectives
and the scope Direct applications:
of the -Development and
assessment improvement of
products.
Life-Cycle -Strategic Planning.
Inventory -Political decision-
Overall
making process.
evaluation
Appraisal of -Marketing.
impact -Other.
2.
Application in Food-Sector: