Questions about Exploring Nanotechnology

1. How big is a nanometer?

    A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

2. What is the primary goal of early nanotechnology?

    T o be able to create specific molecules using atoms.

3. What is a nanobot? What materials could a nanobot be made out of?

    A small robot created by the use nanotechnology. They require a some sort of battery pack, however scientists have not yet been completely able to make one small enough, but scientists believe that the nanobots may be able to fuel themselves on particles released by decaying atoms. 

4. How would a nanobot manipulate atoms and molecules?

    It would be able to detect diseased cells.

5. Make a list of ten items that nanotechnology could improve upon.

      1- Medicine

      2- being able to save data when the switch is off on a device

    3- Advanced nanotechnology will work with molecular precision, building a wide range of          products that are impossible to make today.

   4- inserting nanobots into humans to search for diseases

   5- material strengtheners

    6-  ion storage for batteries

    7-  the discovery and potential applications of the fullerene molecule (also called a buckyball) and a related structure, the buckytube (or nanotube)

    8- improve fuel cells

    9- to help predict blood clots or cancer

   10- improvements in building and architecture