Posts Tagged ‘Nanoparticles’

February 9th, 2016 by Dr. Hannah Sivak

The year was 2000. They told us that nanotechnology is great and that it is the “decade of nanotechnology”. Then they tried to sell us stuff by using the word “nano”. Ten years later, Robin Cook wrote a medical thriller titled “Nano”. Soon after, some people began to say that nanotechnology is bad. They ask for money to fund “non-profits” to put pressure on Congress so that everything nano can be banned. What is nano? You probably learned about this term in high school, when studying the metric system. The nanometer is one thousandth of a micrometer, which is one thousandth of a millimeter, etc. How small is a nanometer?  Below is a (logarithmic) scale showing where the atom is compared to a giant sequoia.    …