Image result for iphone 6 nanotechnologyNanotechnology is a field that we, as a society, are pretty uneducated on because it is not mentioned to us nor is it well known. However, in this week’s lesson, Professor Vesna introduced us to nanotechnology. Before this lesson, I had no idea what nanotechnology is. To my surprise, nanotechnology is all around us. It is in our food packaging, the clothes we wear, and even in our electronic devices and its accessories !





The meshing of nanotechnology and art is something I didn’t think was possible. However Rothemund, the speaker at the TED talk for DNA folding showed us how they do in fact go hand in hand at time. Rothemund showed us DNA folding into what resembled a smiley face ! Who knew that scientist could manipulate DNA and change the way that it folds ?
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Companies like Apple are well known for using nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has made life more efficient for us in certain ways. Dr. Gimzewski was very helpful in making us understand the concept of nanotechnology. He spoke about nano-silver particles and their significance in things like sportswear, as stated above. Thanks to bacteria killing nano-silver particles, sportswear is now able to absorb more of the smells that our bodies produce as we work out. Nanotechnology is a field that I believe we should study more because although not much is known about it, it is fairly interesting but also can be quite confusing at times.
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An interesting fact about nanotechnology is that it can have an amazing impact on the medicine world. Nanomedicine has a lot of potential according to scientists and doctors. It is said that nanoparticles and nanostructures that are used for medicine are likely to be more efficient to be used as treatments in order to cure diseases that are currently incurable.

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  3. Malhotra, Bhanu, Anu Keshwani, and Harsha Kharkwal. "Antimicrobial food packaging: potential and pitfalls." Frontiers in Microbiology. Frontiers Media S.A., 2015. Web. 29 May 2017.
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  1. UnknownMay 31, 2017 at 6:26 PM

    I think you further helped the reader with your understanding and opinion about nanotechnology by mentioning that in your introduction, so thank you for that. Also, you did a great job in connecting your outside examples with concepts in nanotechnology that we learned in class.

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