Richard Smalley

If we are ever to cross the 100-nano barrier in electronics, we need to develop nano structures that let electrons move through, as they do through wires and semiconductors. And these structures must survive in the real world of air, water, boiling temperatures.

American Scientist

George M. Whitesides

One of the issues in electronics is that we work only in two scales - transistors and collections of transistors - and that's the device. But to take full advantage of nano, we're going to have to think about that full hierarchy of levels of structure.

Used to discuss objects or processes on an incredibly tiny scale, usually invisible to the naked eye.

Small Scale

When precision is crucial, especially in science or engineering, 'nano' is often used.

Precision Required

While 'nano' means one billionth, it is not typically used for time except in 'nanoseconds'.

Not for Time

In computing, 'nano' highlights the speed and efficiency of processors or operations.

Computing Speed

Predominantly used in technology-related contexts to signify quick durations.

Tech Intensive

'Nano' as in nanotechnology involves manipulating matter at the atomic level.

Advanced Technology

Implies something is based on highly advanced or sophisticated technology.

Cutting-Edge Implication

Refers to the iPod Nano, highlighting it is a proper noun, not a general term.

Product Specific

'Nano' can denote a technological generation, like the iPod Nano, indicating a smaller, sleeker version.

Generational Technology

 anywhere in the world and this is really going to leverage technology to the rural and the underserved and unable what used to be thousand-dollar tests to be done at pennies and at the point-of-care if we go down the small pathway a little bit further we're learning the era of nano medicine the ability to make devices super small to

Medicine's future?...

 but they're formed at the nano scale. They're formed at the nano scale, and they use proteins that are coded by the genetic level that allow them to build these really exquisite structures. So something I think is very fascinating What if you could give life to non-living structures,

Angela Belcher: Using...

 are so big precisely because you need large amounts of fuel to boost an object into the air for more than a few seconds the hope is that one day we'll have a nano battery a power supply that is at the molecular atomic level that is small enough to put on your back or in a

Taking a Jet Pack Flight...

 That's how small that is. And microscopes that we have today can actually see individual atoms. So these are some pictures of individual atoms. Each bump here is an individual atom. This is a ring of cobalt atoms. So this whole world, the nano world, this area in here

Gary Greenberg: The...

 inspires me to practice the art of careful observation and to be able to navigate nimbly between things as large as a distant landscape and a small and ethereal as curls of smoke now that humans are able to discover and to shape the world on the nano scale these are

Understanding the colors...

 see is a nano world that is wrapped up within that in the hole and the and that is the world of molecules and atoms but I want to talk about this larger world the world of the microworld so if you were a little tiny bug living in a

The beautiful nano...

 waiting to be discovered. A spider also has great secrets, because spiders' silk thread is pound for pound stronger than steel but completely elastic. This journey will take us all the way down to the nano world.

Hidden miracles of the...

 help it grip to surfaces using intermolecular forces today we can manufacture structures that mimic the hairs of a geckos foot the result a four by four inch artificial nano gecko

From mach-20 glider to...

 Hunter's travel out on the ice to find seals but they're never alone no no the polar bear lives here too we fear an admired nano and we have a special word

Reading the Snow PIPE A Boy...

 In our world we use about 350 polymers to make all this. Nature is nano. Nanotechnology, nanoparticles, you hear a lot of worry about this.