Topic > The Development of Nanotechnology - 579

The word “nanotechnology” is defined as the science of using atoms and molecules to build extremely small devices. Initially, the concept of nanotechnology and the description of matter on a molecular or atomic scale became widespread. very slowly. In 1867 James Clerk Maxwell proposed a small experiment called Maxwell's Demon capable of manipulating human molecules to demonstrate that the second law of thermodynamics has only statistical certainty1. Richard Adolf Zsigmondy later used the nanometer scale for particle size characterization in 1914. In 1952 at Caltech, Richard Feynman gave a talk entitled "There is a lot of area at the bottom." In his lecture he proposed that direct manipulation of individual atoms was a more powerful method for synthetic chemistry2. In 1974 the first technical definition of nanotechnology proposed by Norio Taniguchi at the Tokyo University of Science as processing, separation, consolidation and deformation of supplies by a single atom or molecule3. Later in 1980, Eric Drexler proposed the idea of ​​using molecular manufacturing in industries and even golds...