Nanotechnology: Basic science and emerging technologies

Nanotechnology risk perceptions and communication: emerging technologies, emerging challenges.

Nanotechnology involves the fabrication, manipulation, and control of materials at the atomic level and may also bring novel uncertainties and risks. Potential parallels with other controversial technologies mean there is a need to develop a comprehensive understanding of processes of public perception of nanotechnology uncertainties, risks, and benefits, alongside related communication issues....

The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms

www.frontiersinecology.org © The Ecological Society of America A the above vignette illustrates, the future of citizen science will likely be inextricably linked to emerging technologies. By spanning multiple spatial, temporal, and social scales, and by being designed to achieve a number of different outcomes, citizen-science projects will need to adopt new technologies to allow participants an...

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Quantum Information Science and Nanotechnology

In this note is touched upon an application of quantum information science (QIS) in nanotechnology area. The laws of quantum mechanics may be very important for nano-scale objects. A problem with simulating of quantum systems is well known and quantum computer was initially suggested by R. Feynman just as the way to overcome such difficulties. Mathematical methods developed in QIS also may be a...

of Nanotechnology and Materials Science

Technology refers to the application of knowledge for human benefits. Nanotechnology has been defined as ‘the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications’[1]. Nanotechnology is unique in the sense that it enables us to observe, synthesize and manipulate things at the nanometer scale[2]. The word nano is derived ...