Another Breakthrough In the Field of Nanotechnology
The image to the left is a man-made motor, a motor so small 6,000 of them could fit on the head of a pin. Welcome to the world of the nanometer, a unit of measurement so small it’s one-billionth the size of a meter. In fact, a nanometer is 100,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. Now that’s small!
European researchers recently discovered a new method of laser-based nanotechnology that can be used to rebuild parts of the body which have been previously damaged.
Johannes Heitz, Senior Research Associate at the University of Linz, Austria, and his team of European scientists have developed a new way of growing human cells inside damaged bodies by using nanotechnology methods.
Heitzs team has created a new technology called EUV, which stands for Extreme Ultra-Violet. When EUV light hits material, new types of polymeric materials can be produced. The greatest benefit of the EUV method is that nano-structures made by this technique are capable of influencing cell behavior, which causes the cells to grow “better and faster depending on the type of polymer surface used.” [1]
The EUV technique is still in testing, but has already been installed into laboratories in the United States, Germany, Japan, China, South Korea, the Czech Republic and France.
The Dangers of nanotechnology:
Our ability to observe and change things on the level of the nanoscale has led to a host of new materials applications, and has even made it possible for scientist to begin building working mechanical nanomachines, but could this new technology lead to extremely dangerous nanoweapons? The center for responsible nanotechnology thinks so. In an article on the groups website, a grave example of how nanotechnology can be used in military applications is explained.
“Let’s say for instance, the smallest insect in the world is about 200 microns; this creates a plausible size for a nanoweapon which could be capable of seeking and injecting toxin into unprotected humans. The human lethal dose of botulism toxin is about 100 nanograms, or about 1/100 the volume of the weapon. As many as 50 billion toxin-carrying nanodevices could fit in a single suitcase.” [2]
The center for responsible nanotechnology analogy may be a bit over the top, but as new technologies emerge in the field of molecular manufacturing, the suitcase analogy may not seem far-fetched for much longer.
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Sources:
1. New Laser-based Nanotechnology
2. Dangers of Molecular Manufacturing
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I guess you better stop giving massive fortunes to the only people on earth who have ever expressed credible interest or capability of developing genocidal weapons (i.e. YOUR GOVERNMENTS).
The UN should make the researching and production of nano weapons a war crime.