What is Nanoengineering?
Nanoengineering is the study, design and fabrication of materials and devices on a size scale less than 1 micrometer. It is an exciting new field incorporating knowledge from a wide variety of disciplines including electronics, materials science, chemistry, biology, and advanced physics such as quantum mechanics. Nanotechnology products and nanoengineering applications are essential to new capabilities and opportunities in energy storage and conversion, biotechnology and health care, microelectronics and microdevices, and information storage and processing.
Nanoengineering is one field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is an umbrella term that encompasses all fields of science that operate on the nanoscale. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or three to five atoms in width. It would take approximately 40,000 nanometers lined up in a row to equal the width of a human hair. Nanoengineering concerns itself with manipulating processes that occur on the scale of 1-100 nanometers. The general term, nanotechnology, is sometimes used to refer to common products that have improved properties due to being fortified with nanoscale materials. One example is nano-improved tooth-colored enamel, as used by dentists for fillings. The general use of the term “nanotechnology” then differs from the more specific sciences that fall under its heading. Nanoengineering is an interdisciplinary science that builds biochemical structures smaller than bacterium, which function like microscopic factories. This is possible by utilizing basic biochemical process
Nanoengineering is the study, design and fabrication of materials and devices on a size scale less than 1 micrometer. This is an exciting new field incorporating knowledge gained from a wide variety of disciplines including electronics, materials science, chemistry, biology, and advanced physics including quantum mechanics. Nanotechnology products and nanoengineering applications are essential to new capabilities and opportunities in biotechnology and health care, microelectronics and microdevices, energy, and data storage and processing. The Nanoengineering Option builds on the strong core of Physics and Engineering, providing training for careers or preparation for graduate studies in Nanotechnology. The Nanoengineering Option also utilises the exceptional expertise and facilities on campus established through the NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT), our leading University of Alberta Micromachining and Nanofabrication Facility, and the affiliated nanoengineering research
Nanoengineering is one field of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is an umbrella term that encompasses all fields of science that operate on the nanoscale. A nanometer is one billionth of a meter, or three to five atoms in width. It would take approximately 40,000 nanometers lined up in a row to equal the width of a human hair. Nanoengineering concerns itself with manipulating processes that occur on the scale of 1-100 nanometers. The general term, nanotechnology, is sometimes used to refer to common products that have improved properties due to being fortified with nanoscale materials. One example is nano-improved tooth-colored enamel, as used by dentists for fillings. The general use of the term “nanotechnology?then differs from the more specific sciences that fall under its heading. Nanoengineering is an interdisciplinary science that builds biochemical structures smaller than bacterium, which function like microscopic factories. This is possible by utilizing basic biochemical processe
Introduction nanotechnology with subtopics: A – Tubes B – Dots C – Films D – Nanopores E – DNA F – Wires G – Nanosystems H – Nanoelectronics I – Nanofabrication. “Nanoengineering is making practical products in the nanoscale range by patterning matter using nanofabrication to methods with precise control of atoms and molecules extending this precise control seen in molecular structures to design larger and more complex materials. Such products as nanotubes or bucky tubes are capable of supplying electrons when exposed to light allowing for applications in solar energy cell production. At the same time in nanomedicine, carbon nanotubes are engineered as ideal scaffolds for the growth of bone tissue promoting faster fracture healing.” Image caption: Nanoengineered DNA strand An engineered DNA strand between metal atom contacts will be useful as a molecular electronics device when electrical power is limited.
