Introduction

Dear reader, This research is going to be about nanotechnologies. If you are interested in something new, then it is for you, and you may find some interesting information and more sources for it. However, if you feel you are just a Homo neanderthalensis , or a cellular mouse, you can quit right now, and delete this document with shift+del combination, or if you have a printed version, you can burn it and warm yourself, this cold spring evening. Otherwise I am very sorry, that wise reader had to read those inappropriate and repulsive words. Please read further paragraph, which will enlighten you.

The research was done to understand more about nanos and to know peoples opinion about it. The aim was to show people more accurately about it, because only words do not mean anything. The problem is to show an example of nanotechnological product, because it still does not exist. The objective of this research is to give you an ability to imagine it, because you are a smart reader, arent you? I shall try to give you some concepts of this product, but a little later. Moreover, you will not need any imagination skills, because it is a video.

As we all know, it is important to understand the novelties, which affect our life. And this technology is one of the most, which will also affect it. It is relevant with me and my studies as the internet or a mobile phone is. There is only one difference among them. The internet and other stuff are used by me right now, but nanotechnologies will be used in near future or in the declension of my years. All my used reference says it is a wonderful invention, but it also has some risks which are listed below.

My hypothesis is to find out whether people have any interest in innovations or not. Furthermore, my research does not have any secret experiments and all the answers were only used to make this research and nothing more. You can use this research to feed your interest, but nothing more. I will not disturb your reading time with my entire questionnaire here, because appendix contains it. My goal is to find out more information about this kind of material, because our feature depends on it. We have to understand how it works, why we still do not have it, and so on. And if you are a smart reader, and of course you are, even if you do not know what nanotechnology term means, do not be frightened, you will understand and read about it below.

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Methodology
A survey was conducted to collect information on peoples knowledge about nanotechnologies. I constructed a questionnaire containing thirteen questions1 and placed it on the internet2. There were fifty-six respondents and I used the answers to make a conclusion/diagram. People had to answer different What is your kinds of questions on nanotechnologies. I know that the gender? internet helps to get useful information really fast, so I used it for my research, too. The second step I took was to 44 50 ask my family, relatives, friends and the others, who do 40 not have the opportunity to use the internet, what they 30 know about these technologies. I used this old fashioned 12 20 way to conduct the survey as I wanted to question 10 different age groups. The questions were closed ended, so 0 you had just to tick one of all, which was the most Male Female acceptable to you. Of course, an eye-to-eye people had to spell the correct answer of their choice. I have chosen this kind of questions, because people are busy/lazy, so they do not have time for thinking for answers to the questions, which do not affect their life. The majority of the respondents are What is your age? adults. The age range of the respondents, who answered the questions on the internet, is 27 30 between twenty and twenty-five. It is not 25 unexpected as the elder generation is not 20 inclined to use new technologies. The majority 12 15 of respondents where students of 10 5 Bachelors/Masters /Doctorates degree. The 4 3 3 2 5 most of them were men, because most of my 0 acquaintances are men. Definitely, there were women too, but the ratio of men and women was as 4 by 1.

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Search on APPENDIX http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dDJjeDlWY1BDdXl5QWJua2RZUl90U2c6MA

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Literature Review
Developments during the past decade in biochemistry, physical chemistry, microscopy, and engineering have resulted in an enormous interest in the properties of very small particles and their possibilities in products. Technological innovations have enabled the manipulation of tiny structures called nanoshells, nanotubes, and so on. For example, medical researchers are using nanotechnology to find out more effective and efficient methods of delivering medications to specific tissues, such as cancer cells.

What is nanotechnology? The head of Center for Responsible Nanotechnology3 states, that nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. To sum everything up, nanotechnology is known as the understanding and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers (nm), where unique phenomena enable new abilities. For example, the diameter of DNA is about 2 12 nm while a red blood cell is 2,500 nm and a strand of human hair is 60,000 to 120,000 nm thick!

Today's scientists noticed that material may have different magnetic, electrical, optical, mechanical and chemical properties at various size scales. U.S. National Science Foundation4 gives some examples: "Imagine a medical device that travels through the human body to seek out and destroy small clusters of cancerous cells before they can spread 5. Or a box no larger than a sugar cube that contains the entire contents of the Library of Congress. Or materials much lighter than steel that possess ten times as much strength." Other biological and chemical properties of nanoparticles may also differ from the macro form of these substances.

Richard Feynman6 states that if we want to build a billion tiny factories, copies of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously - principles of physics, as far as he sees, does not conflict against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are too big, for now.

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http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm http://www.nsf.gov/index.jsp 5 http://www.nsf.gov/eng/general/publicdoc/nanotechnology.jsp 6 http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html

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Mihail Roco7 of the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative8 has described four generations9 of nanotechnology development. The current era, as Roco depicts it, is passive nanostructures, materials designed to perform one task. The second phase, which we have just left, introduces active nanostructures for multitasking; for example, actuators, drug delivery devices, and sensors. The third generation has just begun and will feature nanosystems with thousands of interacting components. In a few years the first integrated nanosystems, functioning much like a mammalian cell with hierarchical systems within systems, are expected to be developed.

After all, like electricity or computers before it, nanotech will offer greatly improved efficiency in almost every aspect of life. But as a general purpose technology, it will be dual-use, because it will have many commercial uses and it also will have many military uses - making far more powerful weapons and tools of surveillance. Thus it represents not only wonderful benefits for humanity, but also grave risks.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Roco http://www.nano.gov/ 9 http://crnano.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/4_gen_1.JPG

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Results/Findings
After so long time of waiting I finally got enough responses to my questions. They were quite good and much more accurately than I thought they would be. We should thanks for this to the 21 centurys GOD Internet and his grand-son Google10. So my first question for audience was about their gender. After many questioned people we could compare who uses the internet, answers the polls, reads the news more. The second question was about their age. It is quite normal that the average age of the internet user is about seventeen twenty-five years. I said quite normal, because older people have quite hard capability to the new technique. It would not be so strange, that we would not be able to understand the real nanotechnologies or something else, what will be released fifty years later. The third question was about their living place of continent, but actually it did not help really well, because the majority of my fellows live in the same continent as me. We can see the results in the chart on the right.

What continent are you from?

60 40 20 0 51

0 Europe Asia

3 Other

N. S. America America

Have you ever heard about nanotechnology?

39 40 20 0 Yes No What do you mean? 10 7

The fourth and the main question was about their knowledge, do they even know what the nanotechnologies are. If they do not know what this word means, all the other next questions do not make any difference and there, of course, will be just a show of their dumbness.

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http://www.google.com

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However, if they actually knew, what nanotechnologies were, the fifth question was a little harder about the stage of nanos we are at the moment. There were four different stages, and, of course, one extra, for giving an ability to show your stupidity, if you have answered previous question NO. Nevertheless, people could try to guess the correct answer and maybe they tried, we will never know.

In what stage of nanotechnology are we now?

30 20 10 0 Passive Active Nanosystems Mammalian cell Haven't heard 6 18 11 0 21

The sixth question asked only for their opinion, whether they would use it or not. Nevertheless, if you did not know what it is, how the hell you can know, whether you use it or not. However, some of them actually showed us, that they even would not care. It is strange that there are people, who just do not care about the future.

Would you use nanotechnological products?

39 40 30 20 10 0 Yes 12 5 I'm sleeping. DND

No

Do you know any risks of nanotechnology?

50 40 30 20 10 0 41

14 1 Yes No Who cares? It doesn't matter

The seventh question wanted to know your knowledge about the risks of nanotechnologies. This one was easy question. There was an ability to write risks of nanotechnology into Google, and here you go, there are many. Of course, you would do that only if you are interested in it.

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The eighth question was really important and interesting: Why we still do not have them? The problem is that we are too big and they are too small. We need lots of devices to control this kind of material, but we have to make it work without those devices on their own. Lets try to find a needle in a stack, but to make it more difficult, lets take a stack with a size of Atlantic Ocean. Its very difficult almost impossible, as mathematicians would say, lets divide one by infinite and do not write zero, but try to find a numeral. The ninth question barely shows you why we still do not have them, because it asks you about nanobots size. The real size of nanobots is from one to one-hundred nanometers. As we see, most of the audience answered this question correctly. I am very happy knowing that lots of people are interested in this novelty.

What is the biggest problem of nano's?

29 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 They are too small 23

We are too big

Both

What size nanobots are?

30 25 20 15 10 5 0 28 22

6 0 0

12 - 12nm 2500nm 60knm - I have 100nm 120knm my own boots

Do you know what nanobots are?

25 20 15 10 5 0 22 25 9

The tenth question asks you what the nanobots are11. The nanobots are the electrical material working as a mammalian cell. It means that it works as our body cell. If you do not know how the human cells work, use Wikipedia12 or other information source.

Yes

No

I said I have my own boots

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http://www.astrobio.net/albums/marspop/acn.jpg (There are many concepts of nanobots, so be aware of) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology#Cell_theory

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The eleventh question asked about the sources which you have used to find out about nanotechnologies. These answers were independent. The diagram on the right just shows you the answers.

How did you find out about nanotechnologies?

30 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 5 0 5 15 26

Is there any difference between normal silver and nanotech silver?

39 40 20 0 Yes I'm still hungry! No 17 0

The twelfth question was wondering if you are mentally stable or not. Furthermore, it asked whether any difference between normal silver and nanotech silver is. If you are conscious man or woman, you must understand that nanotechnology is different technique from our past technologies; this is why it is called NEW.

How would you rate nanos in the toplist?

24 25 20 15 10 5 0 18 9 5 0 Best Better Normal Worse Worst

And the last question was also independent, because it is up to you, how you would rate it. We can see how people rated the novelty in the chart. The majority of them gave Normal rate, because they do not know very well what it is going to be like.

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Conclusions
Finally, I got enough information. My hypothesis was to find out whether people have any interest in novelties or not. Now, I gladly can say that people are moving forward, though it is sometimes harder than it should be. All fifty-six respondents were true, at least to one question their gender. Nevertheless, they were able to answer, or maybe to guess, some other answers.

Definetely, I am not a perfect man or scientist and my knowledge about nanotechnologies is just a stain on a wrap, but we all have to start somewhere, that we would unlock the ability to move forward. Even if I were a scientist and had all the needed material to write this research, that would be just a scratch, because after some years, there would be new information, new gadgets to move forward to get more information and so on. I have done the best I can, but, of course, the next would be better, because next is always better.

Maybe next time, when I shall do my research, we will have these examples in our own hands. Then I would ask you, whether you used it, whether it helped you, whether you liked it, how much you paid for it and so on.

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References
http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm - Copyright 2002-2008 Center for Responsible Nanotechnology http://www.nsf.gov/index.jsp - The National Science Foundation, Celebrating 60 Years of Discovery, 1950 http://www.nsf.gov/eng/general/publicdoc/nanotechnology.jsp - The National Science Foundation, Celebrating 60 Years of Discovery, 1950 http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html - Nanotechnology Created by Dr. Ralph Merkle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihail_Roco - Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. http://www.nano.gov/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology#Cell_theory - Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Nanotechnology Big things from a tinny world

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Appendix
What is your gender? Male Female What is your age? <13 14-16 17-20 21-26 27-32 33-40 >40 What continent are you from? Europe Asia N. America S. America Other Have you ever heard about nanotechnology? Yes No What do you mean? My cell phone is dying In what stage of nanotechnology are we now? Passive nanostructures Active nanostructures Nanosystems Mammalian cell Haven't heard anything about these Would you use nanotechnological products? Yes No I'm sleeping. DND Do you know any risks of nanotechnology? Yes No Who cares? It doesn't matter What is the biggest problem of nano's? They are too small We are too big Both What size nanobots are? 1-100nm 2-12nm 2500nm 60knm-120knm I have my own boots Do you know what nanobots are? Yes No I said I have my own boots How did you find out about nanotechnologies? Newspapers Internet Google Books Friends Etc?! Is there any difference between normal silver and nanotech silver? Yes I'm still hungry! No

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How would you rate nanos in the toplist? Best Better Normal Worse Worst

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