It is always interesting to look forward into the rest of the year.\u00a0 Nanotechnology will continue to grow and have more applications.\u00a0 While there is strong and continuing interest in graphene, the application in electronics will continue.\u00a0 In the semiconductor world, the current focus in on 10 nm, 7 nm, and even 5 nm nodes.\u00a0 These semiconductor circuits will be based on traditional enhancement of existing device structures and not the application of graphene and carbon nanotube transistors.<\/p>\n
The technology advances to work in the \u201cnano\u201d realm have been significant.\u00a0 The ability to see and measure features at these dimensions have taken science to new concepts.\u00a0 The ability to see the atomic bonds holding atoms together was accomplished a few years ago.\u00a0 There is now work being conducted that is able to determine the spin of electrons.\u00a0 Just recently, Harvard scientists managed to create metallic hydrogen. [Ref. 1]\u00a0 This was achieved at pressures approaching 500 GPa.\u00a0 The current thoughts are that the metallic hydrogen will be meta-stable, which should remain when the pressure is removed.\u00a0 This could open new areas of material science.<\/p>\n
In a slightly different area, researchers in Japan are working on evaluating the properties of anti-matter.\u00a0 The work is done with CERN\u2019s Antiproton Decelerator and the resulting \u201cmaterial\u201d is stored in magnetic bottles. [2]\u00a0 There is work done by French researchers at CERN to measure properties of antimatter.\u00a0 Where does this lead?\u00a0 That will require the development of additional tools.<\/p>\n
A term that has been around for a few years is \u201cAtomically Precise Manufacturing\u201d.\u00a0 The Forbes article [3] provides some insight into advantages and opportunities of APM.\u00a0 Zyvex Labs is the manager of the Texas based Atomically Precise Manufacturing Consortium. [4] \u00a0The long term focus is to work at the atomic scale.\u00a0 Much of the work in nanotechnology materials development fits into this category.<\/p>\n
There are interesting developments in the medical field as biology and nano-sized materials are developed to address various medical conditions.\u00a0 Imaging of neurons and the interactions have been increasing.\u00a0 It is quite possible that there will be some breakthroughs on the functioning of the brain that can be used to address \u201cissues of old-age\u201d.\u00a0 These appear to be conditions where learning what the root causes of the deterioration may indicate means to suppress or even alleviate the effects.\u00a0 This would provide a double benefit in providing a better quality of life and reducing the impact on medical costs.\u00a0 This won\u2019t happen quickly, but progress will be made.<\/p>\n
Work in superconductors has been working toward a goal of room temperature superconducting material.\u00a0 Since one of the largest \u201cuses\u201d of electricity is the resistance generated heat of transmission lines, a successful development of material would have the impact of increasing the power generation capacity by much more than 15%.<\/p>\n
2017 should be an interesting year with new developments in materials and medicine.\u00a0 We have many different applications currently in production, but do not have the \u201cone\u201d that everyone needs and can only be supplied by nanotechnology.<\/p>\n
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