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Smart Materials Congress 2019
Nano Research and Applications
ISSN: 2471-9838
Page 42
August 01-02, 2019
Dublin, Ireland
Smart Materials and
Structures
8
th
International Conference on
Nano Res Appl 2019, Volume 05
Nanotechnology science to convergence innovation
Akbar S Khan
Defense Threat Reduction Agency, USA
A
ll things, both living and non-living, are constructed
of atoms. The nano-scale sparks so much interest
because when a substance is artificially created,
structured atom by atom, it can have different or
enhanced properties compared with the same substance
as it occurs naturally, which includes increased chemical
reactivity, optical, magnetic, or electrical properties.
Nanotechnologyaims toexploit theseproperties tocreate
devices, systems and structures with new characteristics
and functions. For example, researchers hope to
construct from the very ‘bottom’ (that is to say, atom
by atom) a substance as strong as diamond, but more
flexible and far less expensive. It would also be possible
tomanufacture a substance in the shape and size needed
such as a thin string as strong as steel. Nanotechnology
Convergence in nanotechnology happened at three
levels-namely, convergence in the sources of knowledge
for research, convergence in organizational forms to
enable technology development, and convergence at
the product level with the embodiment of knowledge in
complementaryproducts.Whilenanotechnologyresearch
has been shown to have a dominant focus on material
sciences, additional analysis has demonstrated that
nano-based research increasingly draws its knowledge
from other areas. Specifically, Porter and Youtie reveal
that while nano-based publications center on materials
science (including chemistry and physics) nano-based
research also quite significantly applies in many other
fields, including biomedical sciences, computer sciences
andmathematical sciences, environmental sciences, and
engineering. Consequently, at this level of convergence,
the sharing and absorption of research across the
involved disciplines will be necessary for downstream
value creation.
Akbar.s.khan.civ@mail.mil