Nanotechnology: what it is, how it works and what applications it has in medicine, industry and the environment

Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter that occurs on an atomic scale in order to create new structures, materials and devices. Which promises scientific advances in sectors such as: medicine, energy, consumer products, materials and manufacturing.   

It is used in the field of electronic engineering. Also in the design of smaller, fast data storage devices with low energy consumption.

• What is nanotechnology and what are its principles and challenges.

It is a discipline which is focused on the subject at a manometric level, with multiple applications in the areas of medicine. Electronics, agriculture and renewable energy. 

Nanotechnology involves subatomic matter with scientific disciplines such as organic chemistry and molecular biology. Microfabrication and the science of surfaces and semiconductors to produce microscopic machines. 

• How nanotechnology works and what its tools and methods are.

It works with different tools and methods to build nanomaterials. Which are elements that do not exist in nature with amazing properties, for which it opens infinite virtual applications, which are under definition and experimentation.

• What applications does nanotechnology have in medicine and what are its benefits and risks.

In basic terms, nanotechnology is related to the engineering of materials at the atomic or molecular scale. It allows matter to be manipulated at small scales between 1 and 100 nanometers between the size of a DNA molecule and a bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma. It intervenes in the composition of living beings, modifies the DNA of microscopic living beings and programs them to perform biochemical tasks.

Nanotechnology: what it is, how it works and what applications it has in medicine, industry and the environment
 Nanotechnology: what it is, how it works and what applications it has in medicine, industry and the environment

• What applications does nanotechnology have in industry and what are its advantages and disadvantages.

It has many applications that are related to the textile industry, in the creation of smart fabrics, in agricultural design, in the production of:

Pesticides, pesticides and fertilizers. Support livestock farming in the manufacture of nanoparticles for vaccines and drugs for health care; in the food industry to develop food sensors and in nanodrugs it pays to generate pharmacological products. 

• In the textile industry: how to improve the properties and functions of fabrics.

It presents different behaviors preprogrammed in chips as well as other instruments

self-cleaning electronics and stain repellents to change their color and temperature.  In the textile industry it carries out tasks for the creation of smart fabrics with innovative materials with unique properties.

• In the electronics industry: how to increase the performance and capacity of devices.

It allows the manipulation of matter on an atomic scale with which it creates new structures, devices and materials. It is a technology adapted to scientific advances in many sectors of the electronics industry., manufacturing materials and energy.

This discipline has many applications in electronics, adapted to conventional electronics. It is based on the charge of the electrons and spintronics, which is considered the spin of the electrodes. That It is the magnetic field that is generated when rotating on its own axis.

• In the food industry: how to improve food quality and safety.

In the food industry, it improves people's quality of life and food safety, with food sensors. Csuch as elements that can check the viability of the food consumed, even packaging for nanotechnology with which the natural process of food decomposition is delayed.

• In the energy industry: how to optimize production and consumption 

of energy.

In the energy industry, nanotechnology is efficient, safe and has low environmental impact. It is an important solution to the energy crisis, with environmental solutions, such as nanotechnological systems for the elimination of hazardous waste as well as garbage disposal.

• What applications does nanotechnology have in the environment and what are its opportunities and threats. 

Nanotechnology helps to a high degree to protect the environment through applications and resources that serve to improve the efficiency of renewable energy sources.

It has the possibility of replacing abundant materials to somehow improve the environment. With the reduction of non-renewable natural resources with significant changes in the manufacturing industrywas. Health care, economics and environmental control and sustainable development.