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BRIEF REVIEW OF NANO TECHNOLOGY AND NANO
SCIENCE
Ilapavuluri Umamaheshwar Rao,
Scientist (Retired), PGAD/RCI, DRDO, HYDERABAD, INDIA
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of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering, Volume V, 294-304. doi://10.26562/IJIRAE.2018.SPAE10081
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Abstract: The Future of science and technology is going to be important for scientists and engineers because the
hybrid science consisting of engineering, chemistry, and to some extent biology is being involved in several
applications of scientific research including military, aerospace and medical fields which is none other than
nanotechnology or nano science. This article is prepared by studying the text books on NANO TECHNOLOGY AND
NANO SCIENCE.
Indexing terms: Nanotechnology; Nano science; electronics; nano materials; lithography;
I. INTRODUCTION
The accomplishments of the twentieth century are revolutionizing science and technology in the twenty-first
century. Researchers have gained the ability to measure, manipulate, and organize matter on nanoscale—1 to 100
billionths of a meter. At the nanoscale, physics, chemistry, material science, biology, and engineering converge
toward common principles, mechanisms, and tools. This convergence of multiple disciplines will lead to a
significant impact on science, technology, and society. Historically, every new technological advance and innovation
remakes the world. The time to remake the world has become shorter with every new technological revolution. The
industrial revolution took almost two centuries to reshape the world, the electronics revolution around 70 years,
the information revolution two decades, and innovations in biotechnology and nanotechnology to reshape the
world could be just a matter of less than a decade.Historically,theworldwasdividedintothefirstworldandthethird
world, but the information revolution revealed the ‘‘digital-divide,’’ and advances in nanotechnology will divide the
world into the nano haves and nano have nots (Hjorth et al.2008).
The nanoscale is not just another jump toward miniaturization, but a qualitatively new scale. The new behavior is
dominated by quantum mechanics, material confinement in small structures, large interfacial volume fraction, and
other unique properties, phenomena, and processes. Many current theories of matter at the microscale will be
inadequate to describe the new phenomena at the nanoscale (Roco and Bainbridge 2001). As the global economy
continues to be transformed by new technology, an intense competition will grow for intellectual capital and
intellectual property. Technology will continue to drive the global and domestic GDP (Khan 2006). The National
Science Foundation predicts that the global marketplace for goods and services using nanotechnologies will grow to
$1 trillion by 2015 and employ 2 million workers. It is estimated that by 2015 nanotechnology will be a $3 trillion-
a-year global industry. In 1997, the investment in nano technology stood at $430 million to more than $9 billion in
2004. There are more than 800 products in the marketplace that have been developed using nanotechnology
(Ehrmann 2008).

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1.1. What Is Nanotechnology?
A number of definitions exist in literature. According to the National Nano technology Initiative (NNI),
nanotechnology is an area that encompasses the following traits or characteristics:
1. Research and technology development at the atomic, molecular, or macromolecular levels, in the length scale
of approximately 1–100nm range
2. Creating and using structures, devices, and systems that have novel properties and functions because of their
small and or intermediate size
3. Ability to control or manipulate matter on the atomic scale (Minoli 2006)
TABLE 1.1 - Matters of Scale
Dimensions in Nanometers (nm) Item [1 nm ¼ 0.000000001m]
Human hair 100,000
Diameter of bacterium cell 1,000–10,000
Range of visible light 400–700
Human immune deficiency virus 90
Transistor dimensions on aCPU(2008) 43
Cell membrane 10
Drug molecule rv5–10
QD rv1–5
Diameter of DNA 2.5
Individual atom 0.1
According to Professor Stephen Fonash, nanotechnology is manipulating matter at the atomic and molecular scale,
seeing matter at the atomic and molecular scale, and exploiting the unique capabilities and properties of structures
fabricated at the atomic and molecular scale (Fonash 2008). In short, nanotechnology refers to the convergence of
multiple disciplines and appliedtechnologiesdealingwithparticlesandstructureshavingdimensions in the range of a
nanometer, i.e., one-billionth of a meter. The diameter of a human hair is 100,000 nm. Presently PC notebooks
employ CPU chips that contain transistors having dimensions of 43nm.It is said that currently more nanoscale
transistors are made in a year than grains of rice grown. Table 1.1 compares various entities and systems that occur
in nature using a nanoscale.
II. NANO TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION
2.1 How Did the Field of Nanotechnology Evolve?
Nature is full of nanostructures (Figures 1.1 through 1.7). Nano particles and structures have been used by humans
for quite a long time. For example, in the fourth century, Romans used metal nano particles to make glass cups that
changed their colors based on the transmission or reflection of light. An artifact from this period called the Lycurgus
Cup resides in the British Museum in London. The cup, which depicts the death of King Lycurgus, is made from soda
lime glass containing silver and gold nanoparticles (40ppm gold nanoparticles and 300 ppm silver nanoparticles).
The color of the cup changes from green to a deep red when a light source is placed inside it
(BarberandFreestone1990).The Irish manufactured stained-glass windows in AD 444 using nanoparticles. Italians
also employed nanoparticles in creating sixteenth-century Renaissance pottery (Poole and Owens 2003). These
were influenced by Ottoman techniques. In south Asia, traditional medicine also employed fine particles in the
composition of Tib-e-Unani medicines.
In 1960, prominent physicist Richard Feynman presented a visionary and prophetic lecture at the meeting of the
American Physical Society entitled, ‘‘There is plenty of room at the bottom,’’ in which he speculated the possibility
and potential of nanosized materials. In1974, the term ‘‘nanotechnology’’ was used for the first time by Nori
Taniguchiin Tokyo,Japan, at the International Conference on Production Engineering (Minoli 2006). However, it
was not until the 1980s, with the development to the appropriated methods of fabrication of nanostructures, that a
notable increase in research activity occurred and a number of significant developments materialized (Pooleand
Owens2003). Nanoparticles have been used for ages, but the ability to understand the chemical and physical
processes at then a no scale have only been understood recently. Control and repeatability have been achieved, and
the knowledge base and applications have been refined.Table1.2 presents a summary of the applications of
nanotechnology in the various domains of science. Table 1.3 presents a summary of the equipment and processes
used in nanotechnology research and development.

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TABLE 1.2 - Applications of Nanotechnology
Domain=Area Applications
Physics Conductivity measurement of a single molecule Conduction through small junctions with few defects
Observation of magnetic scattering of spin-polarized currents are possible
Optics Fabrication of lasers and waveguides, optical switches, modulators, and photonic crystals
Electronics Fabrication of less than 10 nm by integrating electronics with MEMS and optics
MEMS NEMS Fabrication of micro-and nanomechanical systems–based sensors and actuators
Life sciences Use of nanostructures can be used to simulate biological structures, sort or detect cells or molecules,
and control cell growth Fabrication of nanoprobe for in vitro applications
Chemistry Fabrication of mono layers, dendrimers, functionalized nano tube structures
Development of chemical sensors and chemical mixing systems using micro fluids
Development of new materials and processes for nanostructure fabrication
NATURE AT NANOSCALE
Blue morpho butterfly
FIGURE 1.1
The iridescent colors of the blue morpho butterfly’s wings are produced by nanostructures that reflect different
wavelengths of light. The wingspan of this butterfly is about 10–15 cm. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons,
http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collection)
NATURE AT NANOSCALE
Blue morpho butterfly wing ridges
FIGURE 1.2
This scanning electron microscope (SEM) image shows ridges on a blue morpho butterfly wing scale. These ridges
contain nanoscale structures that reflect light to create the morpho’s iridescent colors. Each ridge is about 800 nm
wide. (Courtesy of S. Yoshioka, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan,
http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collection

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Gecko foot
FIGURE 1.3
The feet of the gecko cling to virtually any surface. This image shows the soleo fagecko’s foot. The adhesive lamellae
on the sole have millions of branching hairs that nestle into nano scale niches on the contact surface. (Courtesy of
A.Dhinojwala, University of Akron, Akron, OH, http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collection
FIGURE 1.4
The feet of the gecko cling to virtually any surface. This SEM image shows the branching hairs on the foot’s adhesive
lamellae. These hairs nestle into nanoscale niches on the contact surface. (Courtesy of C. Mathisen, FEI Company,
Hillsboro, http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collectionNasturtium
FIGURE 1.5
The lotus effect describes water droplets rolling off leaf surfaces, removing dirt and contaminants.
This phenomenon can also be seen in the more common nasturtium. These leaves are covered with wax nanocrystal
bundles that trap air and force water to bead and rolloff. (Courtesy of A.Otten and S.Herminghaus, Göttingen,
Germany, http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collection)

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NATURE AT NANOSCALE
Nasturtium leaf (2500×)
FIGURE 1.6
The lotus effect describes water droplets rolling off leaf surfaces, removing dirt and contaminants.
This phenomenon can also be seen in the more common nasturtium. This image shows leaf sections covered with
wax nanocrystal bundles that trap air and force water to bead and roll off.
(Courtesy of A. Marshall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collection)
III. CHARACTERISTICS OF BULK AND NANO-SIZED MATERIALS
3.1 What Is the Difference between Bulk and Nano-Sized Properties of Materials?
When the dimensions of solids are lowered to nanometers, the properties of these solids change—properties like
strength, melting temperature, color, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, reactivity, and magnetism. The
magnitude of such change is size dependent, i.e., the dimensions in nanometers determine the amount of change.
When the dimensions of a material are reduced from large macroscopic values (meters or centimeters) to very
small sizes, the properties remain the same at first, and then small changes start to take place until finally when the
dimensions fall below 100nm, significant changes in properties occur. Reduction in one dimension keeping other
two dimensions large, results in a structure known as quantum well. Reduction in two dimensions to nano size,
while one remains large, results in a structure called quantum wire; and the reduction of all three dimensions to
nano size results in the structure known as a quantum dot (QD). At the nanoscale, the number of surface atoms is
greater than that of the bulk material. The number of atoms in the nanocluster (surface-to-volumeratio) determines
the change in the electronic, structural, optical, and acoustic properties of the material. This surface-to-volumeratio
relationship allows the possibility of using size in nanometer regime to design and engineer materials with new and
possibly technologically interesting properties (Poole and Owens 2006). Also, between the gas and condense phase
of liquids and solids lies an intermediate state called clusters; these small agglomerations of atoms and molecules
have properties not found in gases or condensed matter. This relatively new field of cluster science has the
potential to make important advances in areas as far-reaching as material science, environmental chemistry,
catalysis, and biochemistry (MRI2007).
3.2 Applications of Nanotechnology
3.2.1 What Are the Applications of Nano technology?
At the nanoscale, materials exhibit novel electronic, optical, and magnetic properties, which have led to new
applications of nanotechnology. Advances in nano science have enabled researchers to manipulate the behavior of a
‘‘single cell,’’ reverse disease, and repair and grow human tissues. Nanotechnology is supplying improved services
in the areas of energy, lighting, computing, printing, and water filtration. Nanotechnology innovations, such as QDs,
semiconductor nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, and nanoshells (see Table 1.4), have led to the fabrication of
electronics hardware devices using the ‘‘bottom-up’’ approach in contrast to present ‘‘top-down’ ’approach.
Nanotechnology has numerous other applications. In concrete manufacturing, the introduction of nanotubes
increases the strength of cement. In plastics and polymers manufacturing, the use of nano particles allows precise
control over color change and increases the strength of the materials. Nano composite materials are being used to
manufacture various auto parts including body panels, instrument panel, bumper fascia, front-end module bolster,
etc. In the medical field, nanotechnology has been used to study cancer cell structure, and nanoparticles have been
used for the florescent imaging of tumors.

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Fluorescent nanoparticles have been employed for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Nanoparticles of gold and
palladium have been used to remove toxic chemicals from water. Used as catalysts, cancer the rapies, sunscreens,
anti bacterial composites, solar cells, and, more recently, advances in microfluidics and biosensors have made it
possible to fabricate lab-on-a-chip devices. Nanotechnology has enabled manufacturing processes to yield smaller,
faster, and more energy efficient electronic, photonic, and optoelectronic devices. The first generation of
nanotechnology (1990s–early 2000s) dealt with improving the performance characteristics of existing micro
materials; the second generation of nanomaterials (2006 onward) is leading to the fabrication of devices that are
cleaner, stronger, lighter, and more precise (Minoli 2006). Researchers at Penn State and the University of
Southampton (United Kingdom) have created a breakthrough in optical electronics by developing a technique to fill
an optical fiber with micro and nano semiconductor structures. This structure enables the optical fiber to carry
multiple wave lengths of light, and thus increases the data transmission capability tremendously. New
developments in nanotechnology sensors have generated new interest in micro electro mechanical (MEMS)-based
systems. Such devices have applications in communications, medical diagnosis, commerce, the military, aerospace,
and satellite systems. The extensive array of fabrication infrastructure developed for the manufacture of silicon
integrated circuits has contributed to the development of systems having components of micrometer dimensions.
Thinfilmdepositionprocessescoupledwithadvancedlithographictechniques are used to make MEMS devices. The
major advantages of MEMS devices are miniaturization, multiplicity, and the ability to directly integrate the devices
into microelectronics (Poole and Owens 2003). The integration of MEMS and nanotechnology not only improves
overall device performance, such as reliability, but also reduces weight, size, power consumption, and production
costs. Hybrid systems using MEMS and nanotechnology allow the design and development of novel electro-optic
sensors, lasers, and RF=millimeter-wave components such as phase shifters, switches, tunable filters, micro
mechanical resonators,acousticandinfrared(IR)sensors,photonicdevices,accelerometers,gyros,automobile-based
control and safety devices, and unmanned aerial vehicles(UAVs) for battle field applications(Jha2008).
Following the recent discovery of the antimicrobial properties of silver metal, silver structure and particles are
being used in the manufacture of various products. When silver is transformed into very small particles, it exhibits
antimicrobial properties that are not present in the bulk material. This antimicrobial property of silver has been
incorporated in various products. For example, accompany manufactures socks with silver threads woven in with
cotton and other synthetic fibers to prevent odor. Historically, in the Indian subcontinent during the Mughal empire
and in the princely estates, it was a common practice in the households to use metallic silver bowls for drinking
water, silver rings were used to treat various ailments, silver leafs were used to decorate desserts, and silver
particles were mixed in various medicines. The use of QDs has revolutionized the optoelectronics area. QDs offer
superior optical properties, high quantum efficiency (95%), and size tunable emission. The QDs fabricated through
the colloidal synthesis of semi- conductors have many applications such as optical sources and in flat-panel displays
(Zhanao et al. 2008). Another major example of the application of nanotechnology is food science. Advances in
nanotechnology have enabled food science to improve food safety and quality, ingredient technologies, processing,
and packaging. It is estimated that nano food market will be worth $20.4 billion by 2010. Table 1.5 presents a
summary of nanotechnology research activities and applications in various food science areas (Floros2008).
EXAMPLES OF NANOTECHNOLOGY (FIGURES 1.8 THROUGH 1.14) Quantum corral
FIGURE 1.7
The corral is an artificial structure created from 48 iron atoms (the sharp peaks) on a copper surface. The wave
patterns in this scanning tunneling microscope image are formed by copper electrons confined by the iron atoms.
The radius of the corral is about 7 nm. (Courtesy of D. Eigler, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA,

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Nickel nanowires
FIGURE 1.8
The orientation of the nickel nanowires shown in this SEM can be changed by altering the direction of an applied
magnetic ﬁeld. The nanowires are 100–200 nm in diameter and about 20 mm in length. (Courtesy of W. Crone,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI,
EXAMPLES OFNANOTECHNOLOGY
ZnO nanowires
FIGURE 1.9
Vertical arrays of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires on a sapphire substrate. The sample displayed in the image is about
10mm wide.(Courtesy of S.Dayeh, University of California at SanDiego, SanDiego,CA,
A nanowire resting on a human hair
FIGURE 1.10
ThisSEMimagecomparestherelativethicknessofatypicalnanowireincomparisonwitha strand of human hair. The hair
is about 100 mm in diameter; the nanowire’s diameter is about100nm.(Courtesy of

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EXAMPLES OFNANOTECHNOLOGY
Nanotube yarn
FIGURE 1.11
This SEM image shows nano tube yarn ﬁbers drawn from a ‘‘nanotube forest.’’ The yarn’s diameter is about 1 mm.
The nanotubes from which it is being drawn are each about 10 nm in diameter.
(Courtesy of M. Zhang, UTD, Dallas, TX, http://www.nisenet.org=viz_lab=image-collection_Siliconnanowire
FIGURE 1.12
Silicon nano wire. (Courtesy of Fonash Research Group, Penn State University, Philadelphia, PA.)
EXAMPLES OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
ZnO nanowire
FIGURE 1.13
ZnO nanowire.(Courtesy of Fonash Research Group, Penn State University, Philadelphia, PA.)

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FIGURE 1.14
ZnO nanowire growth. (Courtesy of Fonash Research Group, Penn State University, Philadelphia, PA.)
IV. NANOTECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE OF THE FUTURE
4.1 What Would Be the Impact of Nanotechnology on Education and Workforce of the Future?
It is estimated that by 2015, nanotechnology will be a $3trillion a year global industry. In 1997, the investment in
nanotechnology stood at $430 million, rising to more than $9 billion in 2004. Presently more than 800 products
have been developed using nanotechnology. The development of nanotechnology requires multidisciplinary teams
of highly trained researchers with backgrounds in biology, medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, material
science, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. For innovative advances in nanotechnology, the key is
researchers with expertise in the multiple subsets of these disciplines since so many implications and fields are
linked to a nano ‘‘micro-revolution’’ (Khan 2006). Education and training in nanotechnology require special
laboratory facilities that can be quite expensive (see Table 1.3). The cost of creating and maintaining
nanotechnology facilities is a major challenge for educational institutions. But by using innovative approaches such
as interuniversity collaboration, academia–industry partnerships, and Web-based remote access to nanofabrication
facilities, educational institutions can overcome the cost-related challenges and thus help students and faculty to
become innovative nanotechnology researchers (Khan2006). To address these new demands of the global
marketplace, a skilled workforce is required that can move from industry to industry without retraining. The new
workforce will consist of researchers, technicians, and educators. To develop this work force, new interdisciplinary
educational programs need to be developed and revised. To promote the conditions for the development of
nanotechnology work force in the United States, the NNI program was established in 2001. The NNI (www.nni.org)
provides a vision of the long-term opportunities and benefits of nanotechnology.
The goals of NNI are as follows:
● Advance a world-class nanotechnology research and development program.
● Foster the transfer of new technologies into products for commercial and public benefit.
● Develop and sustain educational resources, as killed work force, and the supporting infrastructure and tools to
advance nanotechnology.
● Support the responsible development of nanotechnology.
V. IMPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
5.1 What Are the Social Implications of Nanotechnology?
The projected impact of nanotechnology has been touted as a second industrial revolution not the third, fourth, or
fifth, because despite similar pre- dictions for technologies such as computers and robotics, nothing has yet eclipsed
the first (Hall 2005). Society is at the threshold of a revolution that will transform the ways in which materials and
products are created. How will this revolution develop? The opportunities that will develop in the future will
depend significantly upon the ways in which a number of challenges are met. As we design systems on a nanoscale,
we develop the capability to redesign the structure of all materials natural and synthetic along with rethinking the
new possibilities of the reconstruction of any and all materials. Such a change in our design power represents
tremendous social and ethical questions. In order to enable our future leadership to make decisions for sustainable
ethical, economic nano technological development, it is imperative that we educate all nanotechnology stakeholders
about the short-term and long-term benefits, limitations, and risks of nanotechnology.

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The social implications of nanotechnology encompass many fundamental areas, such as ethics, privacy,
environment, and security (www.epic.org). Nanotechnology, like its predecessor technologies, will have an impact
on all areas. For example, in health care it is very likely that nanotechnology in the area of medicine will include
automated diagnosis. This in turn will translate into fewer patients requiring physical evaluation, less time needed
to make a diagnosis, less human error, and a wider access to health-care facilities. However, with nano medicines if
the average life span of humans increases, it will create a large portion of elderly persons requiring medical
attention, resulting in increased health expenditures (Moore 2004). It is essential for the nanotechnology
stakeholders to strive to achieve four social objectives: (1) developing a strong understanding of local and global
forces and issues that affect people and societies, (2) guiding local global societies to the appropriate uses of
technology, (3) alerting societies to technological risks and failures, and (4) developing informed and ethical
personal decision making and leadership to solve problems in a technological world (Khan2006). Advances in
nanotechnology also present numerous challenges and risks in health and environmental areas. Nanotechnology
risk assessment methods and protocols need to be developed and implemented by the regulatory bodies. Eric
Drexler, author of Engines of Creation, has identiﬁed four challenges in dealing with the development, impact, and
effects of nanotechnology on society (Drexler1989):
1. The challenge of technological development (control over the structure of matter)
2. The challenge of technological foresight (the sense of the lower bounds of the future possibilities)
3. The challenge of credibility and understanding (a clearer understanding of these technological possibilities)
4. The challenge of formulating public policy (formulating polices based on understanding)
VI. CONCLUSION
This chapter provided an overview of the state of the art in nanotechnology by exploring the topics of evolution,
characteristics, equipment, and processes. It also discussed the applications, societal impact and ethical
implications, beneﬁts, and risks of nanotechnology. New demands on the curricula and work force of the future
were also explored. It is imperative for 21 nanotechnology stakeholders to guide society to the appropriate uses of
nanotechnology, alert society to the risks and potential failures, and provide a vision in helping to solve societal
problems that are related to nanotechnology. As the convergence of multiple disciplines occurs in the form of
nanotechnology discoveries and developments, the time to remake the world will become shorter, and thus the
nanotechnology stakeholders will be relied upon to guide society by making future decisions for the humane, just,
and responsible utilization of this ‘‘invisible’’ technology.
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