Learn About Nanotechnology

Manipulating matter at the atomic scale — carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, targeted drug delivery, and the promise and peril of engineering at the nanometer level.

Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" is widely considered the conceptual origin of nanotechnology, though the term itself was coined by Norio Taniguchi in 1974. Carbon nanotubes, discovered by Sumio Iijima in 1991, are 100 times stronger than steel at one-sixth the weight and conduct electricity better than copper, making them one of the most promising nanomaterials for electronics and structural applications. The 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots — nanoscale semiconductor particles that emit specific colors of light based on their size and are now used in QLED displays, medical imaging, and solar cells.

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