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The document discusses the developments in nanosciences and nanotechnologies that allow for applications in many fields like medicine, industry, and electronics. Nanotechnology is being used in consumer products like skin care, electronics, textiles, and sports equipment. Nanotechnology has potential applications in food, agriculture, construction materials, mechanical, medical and electrical engineering that could create new capabilities and improve infrastructure lifetime.

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Nanotechnology

The document discusses the developments in nanosciences and nanotechnologies that allow for applications in many fields like medicine, industry, and electronics. Nanotechnology is being used in consumer products like skin care, electronics, textiles, and sports equipment. Nanotechnology has potential applications in food, agriculture, construction materials, mechanical, medical and electrical engineering that could create new capabilities and improve infrastructure lifetime.

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The small world of matter is getting smaller and smaller.

Nano sciences in recent years had


huge developments allowing nanotechnologies to take enormous steps in the development of
materials and processes. Numerous applications in a wide scope of fields are very beneficial for
humans, and many researches in development are very promising. Applications in medicine,
industry, electronics, energy, or aeronautics are only some examples of areas where enormous
benefits exist, and potentialities are clear. Some nanotechnologies are already applied and
others are in development or testing phases (Filipe & Ferreira, 2021).

As one of the assumed key technologies of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology (NT) has
been established worldwide as an innovative approach to enhance the durability and function
of various classes of products. Over the course of the last decades, the number of consumer
goods containing nanomaterials (NMs) has been rapidly increasing. When the Nanotechnology
Consumer Product Inventory was created by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN)
in 2005, 54 NM-containing products were listed (Vance et al., 2015). As of May 2019, PEN has
identified over 1829 products from 714 companies in 33 countries that make use of NT.
Thereby, silver, titanium, and carbon are the most common materials used (Project on
Emerging Nanotechnologies, 2013).Skin care, electronics, textiles, and sports equipment are
prominent consumer good areas in which NT has been successfully applied to improve modern
lifestyle products. In recent years, NT has also gained traction in the medical field with
promising outlooks on improved drug delivery and new therapeutic approaches (Pelaz et al.,
2017).

Nanotechnology has the potential to be the key to a brand new world in the fields of food and
agriculture, construction materials, mechanical, medicine and electrical engineering.
Although replication of natural systems is one of the most promising areas of this
technology, scientists are still trying to grasp their astonishing complexities. Furthermore,
nanotechnology and nanomaterials is a swiftly growing area of research where new
properties of materials on the nano-scale can be utilized for the benefit of industrial and a
number of capable developments exist that can potentially modify the service life and life-cycle
cost of construction infrastructure to make a new world in future (Mobasser & Firoozi, 2016).

References

 M.E. Vance, et al. Nanotechnology in the real world: Redeveloping the nanomaterial
consumer products inventory Beilstein journal of nanotechnology, 6 (1) (2015), pp.
1769-1780
 Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies Consumer Products Inventory
Retrieved [May 2019], from [Link] (2013)Google Scholar
 B. Pelaz, et al. Diverse applications of nanomedicine ACS Publications (2017) Google
Scholar
 Filipe, José & Ferreira, Manuel. (2021). Analysis of nanosciences and nanotechnology
and their applications.
 Mobasser, Shariat & Firoozi, Ali. (2016). Review of Nanotechnology Applications in
Science and Engineering. 6. 84-93.

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