Nanotechnology of the Future?

Answer to subquestion

2007-10-18T18:16:00.000+10:00

Nanotechnology of the future

To me this Xplore cycle has been an extremely important and rewarding experience, this term having chosen topic: Nanotechnology of the future. I chose this particular subject as I had an interest in that field, the broadness and complexity of this subject has allowed me to chose and specialise in a particular part of nanotechnology. This being the uses and implications of nanotechnology when applied to non-living matter, meaning things like: wood, steel, fabrics, etc.

While researching I had discovered that I could not just research into the uses nanotechnology in non-living matter without branching off into living things, humans in particular. This is because nanotechnology used in non-living matter is applied, to benefit living organisms. For instance to use nano to create surfaces that do not require cleaning would benefit us human’s everyday lives. So once again I decided to settle more on how may this technology benefit humans.

The applications of nanotechnology are endless, for instance you could strengthen materials for better durability, create better medical treatments and help strengthen human muscles. All these are purely for the benefit of humans in the future.

We may not be sure where nanotechnology is headed in the future, but we can be sure that whatever changes that may occur will all headed in a positive direction.

To improve the quality of life…

for the many generations to come.

Abel

response to question: How does / can nanotechnology benefit humans?

2007-10-17T14:49:00.000+10:00

How does /can nanotechnology benefit humans?

How does /can nanotechnology benefit humans? Nanotechnology is part of our future, most important and promising of all is the ability to help and improve the quality of our lives. Currently nanotechnology is benefiting us in very small ways, but the research could make nanotechnology a large part of the future. Most human diseases could be eradicated down to the molecular scale. This (I feel) is the true way to eradicate the disease entirely. There shall be no more room for human errors. Right now this technology is quite expensive, but hopefully in the future we could make this technology cheap and readily available. This would not only make medical treatment better, but also easy to use in third world countries (if there are any

There could also be many other uses for it, not just medicine. Some could be trivial, such as a imvisiblity cloak. A

Nanotechnology can be implemented in more ways than possibly imaginable, It should make our lives better in the future. Nanotechnology can solve many of humanities problems, not just one

deadline is closing in

2007-10-17T10:06:00.001+10:00

The deadline for us to finish our presentations is Thursday periods5&6. We have just started the presentation today, hopefully we can also finish it today.

We also have to do our 200 word blog response to our question.

So many deadlines... too little time

█William█

Last week of Xplore

2007-10-15T13:39:00.000+10:00

This is the third week of Xplore (in other words the last week). We have been set quite a few deadlines today. First of all is our the answer to our basic questions. I finshed it first , then Abel and Benson is doing it right now. Right now we are waiting for Benson to finish his answer to the basic question so we can all submit it to Mr Arcaro.

Right now we are beginning to start on our final presentation, we will possibly use windows movie maker but we could change our minds.

William

Raw Data

2007-10-12T09:15:00.000+10:00

Yesterday we submitted our raw data to Mr Arcaro so he could put it onto our site. We are also beginning to evaluate our information for our final submission.

Benson Chan
Abel Tan
William Yu

Submitting our raw data

2007-10-11T14:40:00.000+10:00

Today we submitted our raw data to Mr Arcaro, now we have to simplify the data and put it into a eye firendly format, such as in microsoft publisher.

We did quite an amount NewScientist (http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/nanotechnology) especially useful. As it has past and present articles about the forefront of nanotechnology research. This has helped us much. AS we cannot just rely on jsut one source

William

Science Magazines

2007-10-11T09:10:00.000+10:00

Today we went to the library to find background information on our topic, in the end we could not find anything even relating to the subject, so we decided to make use of the Internet. The site which we used was http://www.newscientist.com/ It was a site which involved mainly about the newer branches of science. We found this website extremely informative.

Abel

Interesting trials on nanotechnology

2007-10-11T09:03:00.000+10:00

Yesterday I discovered the specific nanotechnological materials can severely damage human tissue. The is because they are so small and can easily penetrate our vital organs (such as live, heart brain).The tests have also shown that they can cause DNA mutation, which can be very harmful. That is why is has been trialled as a bacteria killer. The trial has shown that it is quite affective as a bacteria killer. I found this trial quite interesting.

More soon...

William

To the library

2007-10-11T08:52:00.000+10:00

Yesterday I went to the library to attempt to find useful information about nanotechnology, because it is a very new branch of science so there wasn't going to be much if not any books on the subject so I had to rely on magazines. Unfortunately I didn't manage to find any information about this nanotechnology.

Benson

Research

2007-10-08T13:58:00.000+10:00

We have begun our research for our topic which is about Nanotechnology. We have begun finding an answer for our main question: How is Nanotechnology part of our future? But before we do that we must all start to find some meaning for our sub questions assigned to each one of us group members. Which are : How is nanotechnology applied to non-living organisms?, How does nanotechnology benefit humans? and What will humans achieve with nanotechnology?

Abel

Nanotechnology and its uses

2007-10-08T13:52:00.000+10:00

We have started studying not only the surface of nanotechnology but its deeper uses ,why and how it could be used. Nanotechnology is not only about the matter being modified down to its molecular level but how it can be implemented into our modern lives.

Wikipedia defines it as: Nanotechnology refers broadly to a field of applied science and technology whose unifying theme is the control of matter on the molecular level in scales smaller than 1 micrometre, normally 1 to 100 nanometers, and the fabrication of devices within that size range. from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology can be used to change the behaviour of particular molecules, making new medicines, this is an exciting area of science and I feel it has yet to show itself to the greater community.

William

Blog Writing

2007-10-08T09:59:00.001+10:00

This first period we learnt about expressing ourselves better and being more clear in our blogs. The session lasted for (about) 40 minutes. We learnet what to put in one and how.

Overall I learnt a lot about how to use a blog properly and why it is used in the first place

William

Learning how to create more meaningful blogs

2007-10-08T09:52:00.000+10:00

Today we had a 20 minute session with Mrs Govender, in which we learnt how to create more meaningful blogs. Sadly, the 20minute session dragged onto 40minutes because we were having so much fun, and we hadn't noticed the time.

This session taught us to use more emotive language and to express our opinions more widely,

Abel

Gattaca?

2007-09-21T09:34:00.001+10:00

Today I thought we were going to watch the movie Gattaca. But it turns out otherwise. Instead we were making decisions about which metaphor we like best about our future.

We have submitted

Older Blogs

2007-09-20T14:52:00.000+10:00

This is the blog for our last cycle in Xplore this year, and as you may think, I have created numerous other blogs for this Xplore program.
Here they are as follows:

http://genegenie.blogspot.com/
This was when we had Healthy Living as our topic for that cycle. For more information on that cycle go to that blog

http://xplorekyotoblog.blogspot.com/
This was our first cycle and Sustainability was our topic for that first cycle in Xplore. For more information on the cycle go to that blog

William

Outlook on Life?

2007-09-20T14:41:00.000+10:00

We have recently been required to do an optimism/pessimism chart, which requires us to plot where we think we are on a chart between optimistic and pessimistic, in the end I found myself slightly more to the optimistic side of the chart. Meaning I feel optimistic about my future and I feel I have a n influence towards this.

Abel

Nanotechnology

2007-09-20T14:18:00.000+10:00

We have chosen Nanotechnology and the future as our topic for this Xplore cycle. This is our last Xplore cycle and we were able to choose our own topic to research.

This is my first post on this blog!

William

1st Day

2007-09-20T14:12:00.000+10:00

Our main topic for this term is How is Nanotechnolgy part of our future?

We are planning on researching Nanotecnolgy and finding how it relates to us and the future.

For my basic question I have chosen to do
How is nanotechnology applied to non-living organisms and how it how that benefits us.

Abel