1. Nanotechnology

2. What is Nano?
Nano means one billionth.
The Scale of Nanoscale
1 nm = 0.000000001 m
3. What is Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology is the creation and use of materials or devices at extremely small scales.
Nanotechnology - Deals with molecules between one and one hundred nanometers in diameter.Manipulating individual atoms and manufacturing from the bottom up.
4. Nanotechnology Foretold
Concept first introduced by American physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918-1988)
Calculated that an encyclopedia set could be compressed to fit the head of a pin.
Predicted several aspects in todays nanotechnology

Advanced microscopes

5. Developments in fabrication methods 6. Possibilities of atom-to-atom assembly