Nano-science, Physics & Chemistry of Advanced Materials

Nano Facts : 

• The word nano is from the Greek word 'Nanos' meaning Dwarf. It is a prefix used to describe "one billionth" of something.
• A nanometre (nm) is a billionth of a metre, or a millionth of a millimetre.
• 1 nanometre is about 8 times the radius of an atom and 100 times smaller than a bacterial cell. At this scale matter reacts differently, for example, a material's melting point may change or it may become more reactive.
• A human hair is 80,000 nm in diameter.
• Nanoscience works on a scale 1000 times smaller than anything that can be seen with an optical microscope.
• We are already surrounded by billions of nano-particles, such as wind borne sea salt and chemicals generated by oceanic plankton.
• A new form of carbon with a cylindrical nanostructure - the nanotube - was discovered in 1991.
• Nanotubes have novel properties including extraordinary strength and unique electrical properties.
• These mechanical and electrical properties make nanotubes potentially useful in many applications from electronics to everyday items like clothes and sports gear
• The discovery of another nanoscale carbon form, C60, called the buckyball, brought the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Robert Curl, Sir Harold Kroto, and Richard Smalley. It started an avalanche of research into other nanoscale materials.
• Nanotechnology is already applied commercially in products ranging from mobile phones, computer discs, tennis rackets and golf clubs to sunscreens and cosmetics.
• L'Oreal have developed nanosize vesicles called nanosomes. They are used to transport active ingredients such as pure Vitamin E through the skin
• Nanoscience is not just one science. It is a platform that includes biology, chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering.
• Nanotechnology was first introduced in 1959 by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. He proposed using normal-sized robots to construct smaller replicas of themselves and then using the new set to manufacture an even smaller set, and so on, until the molecular scale is reached.

To know More about Nanotechnology grab the chance and attend the forthcoming Conference : 5th International Conference on Advanced Material Research and Nanotechnology.

Dates of the Conference : September 17-18, 2018

 

Venue : Berlin, Germany

 

For more Details :  Advanced Materials 2018

 

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