Nanotechnology: Shaping The World Atom By Atom
Interagency Working Group on Nanoscience, Engineering and Technology (IWGN)
As usual read the paper, answer the questions and then write your opinion/communication piece.
According to the authors of this paper, to which socially transforming developments is nanoscience and
nanoengineering developments comparable?
2 points
What does a quantum corral display? How is it made?
4 points
Which important material properties are determined by the way molecules of various shapes
and surface features organize into patterns on the nanometer length scale.
2 points
In which phase are nanoscience and nanoengineering?
2 points
How wide is a DNA molecule?
2 points
Which properties can be changed according to this article without changing a materials chemical
composition if one structures it on the nanometer length scale?
2 points
What is Roald Hoffmann’s definition of nanotechnology?
2 points
Over which length range are fundamental properties defined?
2 points
How much faster than today’s supercomputers are quantum computers going to be according to current
theoretical predictions?
2 points
What is the diameter of single walled carbon nanotubes?
That is MBE standing for?
2 points
2 points
What does the IWGN predict with respect of the relative relationship of the benefits for society that came
from the integrated circuit and that will eventually come from nanotechnology?
2 points
26 points, have fun