Open AccessNANOTECHNOLOGY AN EMERGING NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR INDONESIA PART I. NANOTECHNOLOGY IN GENERAL
Author(s) -
Ratnawati Ratnawati,
anggoro D.D. Anggoro,
G. Ali Mansoori
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
reaktor
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2407-5973
pISSN - 0852-0798
DOI - 10.14710/reaktor.10.1.46-53
Subject(s) - nanotechnology , impact of nanotechnology , societal impact of nanotechnology , applications of nanotechnology , scope (computer science) , engineering , carbon nanotube , engineering ethics , materials science , computer science , programming language
Nanotechnology is shortly defined as the ability to build micro and macro material and product with atomic precistion. Feynman is considered to be the scientist who put a strong foundation for the development of nanotechnology with his phenomenal speech in 1959 entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom - An invitation to enter a new field of physics." The invention of scanning tunneling microscope, followed by atomic force microscope, has enabled the world to see atoms and nolecules and opened more possibility for the scientists to develop nanotechnology. Other breakthough in nanotechnology is the discoveries of fullerene, carbon nanotube and diamondoids. Nanotechnology has found various fields of application, such as in biomedical , materials, aerospace, surface science and energy, to name a few, lead by the united States, Europe, and Japan, The technology brings benefits as well as risks to human life. Some of the risks are potentially global in scope. It is why a single, trustworthy, international administration holding controls on the technologyis is urgently needed.