Nanotechnology case about

The term nanotechnology is sometimes used ambiguously, however. In some cases, it is used simply to describe objects and events with "very small" dimensions, such as a few microns in size. A micron (pm) is a micrometer, or 1 millionth (10 6) of a meter. Unarguably, a micron is a very small dimension a human hair, for example, is about 10 pm in diameter. Still, a micron is 1,000 times as large as a nanometer, and research conducted at the micron level is more accurately known as microtechnology. Studies that involve objects... 

Baum, Rudy. Point-Counterpoint— Nanotechnology Drexler and Smalley Make the Case For and Against Molecular Assemblers. Chemical Engineering News 81 (December 1, 2003) 37-42. This is a very brief debate about the feasibility of molecular assemblers, sometimes called nanobots. ... 

Since the laboratoiy course is independent of the lecture course and since the course does not include a laboratory lecture or case study session, written material in the form of a pre-laboratory handout is used to introduce nanotechnology and highlight. Students were reminded of the related ideas about the properties of light that they had already covered in the lectnre portion of the course. 

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