×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Nano-Technology

Nano-Technology

Nano-Technology

(OP)
I've been reading some articles about the future of nano- technology, engineering and its effect on society analogous to the internet and computer technology.
Does anyone have interest in this subject or heard anything or can provide feedback on your knowledge about this so-called up-and-coming revolution.

RE: Nano-Technology

When I was in college they were saying the same thing about cold fusion too. It was discredited very quickly. Then along came high temperature ceramic superconductors. Although the original researchers received the Nobel prize for their efforts and the US government established the center for high temperature superconductors at Oak Ridge National Labs, none of the original lofty goals that were set by these researchers were realized. For example, the goal of a room temperature superconductor has not been attained. And it probably never will.

So why were these subjects such hot topics when they were initially discussed and researched? They were new and different, and promised substantial potential under the right conditions. More importantly, they meant money to a lot of people. Trade magazines pushed them for marketing purposes. Universities pushed them to obtain grant money that was (and still is) in desperately short supply. Nanotechnology is a hot topic now. One reason is that it has more potential than either of the topics I mentioned above. Ideally, if pursued to a logical conclusion we may one day see an overlap between nanotechnology and biology. Keep in mind that mother nature provided the world with the ultimate in nanotechnology when the first living cells were created billions of years ago.

So where is this new field headed? Follow the money...

RE: Nano-Technology

"Engineering Times" [NSPE newspaper] occasionally has articles on the subject. Very interesting to a Civil Engineer (layman on this subject).

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources