Nanotechnology Opens new Career and Investment Opportunities
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010
Nanotechnology works with molecular structures of less than 100 nanometers (one nanometer is one-billionth of a meter). It can modify the molecular structures of materials, resulting in changed properties, and even create new materials. We can thus produce self-cleaning surfaces, faster electronic microprocessors, superior water-filtration systems and more.
But nanotechnology is not a science by itself unlike, say physics, biology or chemistry. Instead, it can work in all these fields with the essential requirement being the ability to work at nanoscale. Working at nanoscale involves advanced and high-precision equipment, such as scanning probe microscopes with probes that can work with materials invisible to the naked eye.
Nanotechnology research needs researchers with a sound basic training in sciences, engineering and medicine, and with the additional skill to work at nanoscale. Nanotechnology is also an interdisciplinary field combining the disciplines of physics, chemistry and biology. Nanotechnology courses will thus have to ensure that trainees have the needed fundamental training in one of the sciences.
Considering the potential of nanotechnology to create products tailored to our expectations, it is a huge investment area. Investors are interested in tangible products and are more likely to be interested in nano-manufacturing than just nano-science as such.
Read about the job potential of nanotechnology at Atlanta Post.
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Measuring and Sensing Particles at Atomic Levels
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Russian Nanotechnology Corporation is participating in a project to widen production of equipment to measure-analyze materials at nanometer and atomic levels. The primary emphasis will be on scanning probe microscope used in moving a probe with a precision of one nanometer (one billionth of a meter). Such probes are used in studying the surface of materials with unprecedented precision.
The corporation will also produce atomic scales that can sense the presence of single atoms of various substances. This can prove high value as delicate biosensors.
Scanning probe microscopes have high demand among manufacturers of high-technology products and also institutions conducting research in material sciences, biology and medicine. At present, Russia has to obtain these equipment from abroad. The project will seek to make the equipment available at modest prices.
The project has a goal of producing 300 analytic equipment by 2015, with more than half of them bought by Russian buyers while the rest will be exported to India and southeast Asian countries.
Read more details at Nanowerk report.
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