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The term nanotechnology was coined in 1976 by Eric Drexler, who defined his science as “a technology at a molecular level that harnesses the ability to put atoms where we want them to go.”

Nanotechnology started with the research of material on a nanometric level: a nanometre is one billionth of a meter and corresponds to the size of a molecule.
In this microscopic realm, matter has amazing properties involving various fields of scientific application: chemistry, physics, genetic engineering and quantum science.

Nanotechnology makes radical solutions possible when producing materials, components and smaller systems, as they become them less cumbersome and much more effective.

This potential makes a fundamental contribution to the solution of serious economic and environmental problems, as it allows you to develop more profitable products and processes by saving huge quantities of resources and space and by dramatically reducing the amount of discards, waste and harmful emissions.

In the 90’s, Europe invested in many nanoscience programs to build solid qualifications in this field. Now, it must encourage concrete initiatives to allow the European Community Members to undertake the necessary innovative projects. The application of nanotechnology in the industrial sector has already proved very successful in the United States. In the specific sector of insulation, large companies such as Aspen and Industrial Nanotech Inc. have obtained materials and products from the molecular transformation of matter and its duplication, which are rapidly becoming successful at all levels of residential and industrial use.

The comments:

«Nanotechnology will be a further development of the power of man over nature: everything can change and be transformed into anything!»

«If the terms Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age derive from the tools human beings created, then the new technological era which we are entering can be called the Age of Diamond»