Clothing uses nanofibers, fibers on the nanoscale to keep clothes from staining. There are few products that use the nanoscale right now, new computer monitors that are now being sold use carbon nanotubes in the displays. If scientists can control molecules in the nanoworld they hope to make faster computers and help to cure diseases. Q: As scientists learn more about the nanoworld what can we expect?Ī: There are hopes that many things can come out of experimenting in the nanoworld. Q: What are some things in our bodies that on the nanoscale?Ī: We have many things in our bodies on the nanoscale, our DNA is only two nanometers wide, cell membranes are 10 nm thick, our body has little motors inside our cells that that on 100 nm big, and little switches in our eyes that about 10 nanometers. On the larger scale gold is a good conductor of electricity, while gold nanoparticles are insulators. With only 65 particles of gold the properties of the gold change, gold looks red to our eyes. One ounce of gold has 86,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms bonded together while a gold nanoparticle has approximately 65 atoms bonded together. If you buy a piece of gold at a jewelry store, it looks gold. Q: What is an example of how something acts differently on the nanoscale than a larger scale?Ī: Gold is very different on the nanoscale than a larger scale. Scientists use touch much more in the nanoworld they have instruments that can feel things on the nanoscale and determine what they look like by how they feel!!! Sight is not one of them because everything so small. There are senses that scientists can use in the nanoworld. Q: How do scientists understand what is occurring in the nanoworld?Ī: Just like we have senses we use, such as sight, and touch, and smell to figure out what is occurring all around us.

Our chromosomes that hold our genetic information are 100 nm!! Something on the nanoscale defines who we are!!!.

One molecule of sugar is approximately one nanometer!! That means one sugar cube contains 2,110,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of sugar!!.Our bodies are filled with trillions and trillions of things on the nanoscale!! Your body is a nanofactory with many many things happening on the nanoscale!!.

One nanometer is 1 billionth of a meter, that is really really small!! What makes the nanoworld so special is that things on the nanoscale act different then then do in the larger world. In nanoworld when things are on the order of 100 nanometers or smaller. We look all around us at world, but what we don’t know is there a whole other world that we can not see, it is called the Nanoworld.The nanoworld is made up of very very very very tiny things.

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