Nanotechnology is a wildly known technology, yet only few people could accurately give a basic definition of it . Scientists are being challenged communicating with people who do not have a clue what nanotechnology is (Harper, 2003).  Nanotechnology is the study of how tiny matters lined up at Nano-scale to build things from the bottom up inside.Personal nano-factories are capable of lining individual atoms to create beneficial objects (Nanotechnology Basics).

At the nano-scale ,10 ^-9  m, scientists are basically dealing with atoms not bulk substances or molecules that allow them to produce  materials with improved chemical and physical properties (2005).   A new world of phenomena is achieved when working at the nanometer scale. At large scales it is easy to observe properties of materials but at the nanometer scale it requires effort and time to be able to identify properties. Beside that, the new phenomena work hand-to-hand with the modification of atoms characteristics and reducing the size to cause change in behavior (Wang). Nanotechnology will enable us to manipulate atoms to produce useful objects.

Nanotechnology tackles many fields and gives unlimited applications. For example, Medicine. Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) discovered that it’s possible to make protein compound, needed, at target sites. Protein based drugs are beneficial because it allows doctors to address the delivery to where they want in human body. “Nano-fibers are fibers with diameters of less than 1000 nm. Medical applications include special materials for wound dressing and surgical textiles, materials used in implants, tissue engineering and artificial organ components”(Paddock,2012). Nanotechnology is going to play a role in our life in the future.

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