Nanotechnology is the science of working with super tiny things—so small, you can’t even see them with your eyes. The idea first came up in 1959 when Richard Feynman gave a talk about how cool it would be to control individual atoms. Later, in 1974, a scientist named Norio Taniguchi gave this field its name.
In 1981, scientists invented the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), which let them actually see and move atoms around. That was a huge deal! Then in the 1980s, Eric Drexler wrote a book called Engines of Creation, where he imagined making stuff at the molecular level.
By the 1990s and 2000s, nanotechnology wasn’t just an idea anymore—it started showing up in real life. People began using it in medicine to deliver drugs, in electronics to make smaller devices, and even in making stronger materials.
Now, nanotechnology is everywhere, changing the way we live. It helps with making renewable energy, creating advanced medical treatments, and even working on quantum computers. It’s all about exploring the tiniest building blocks of the world and using them to solve big problems. Pretty amazing, right?
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- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2813556/
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6982820/
- https://www.nano.gov/timeline
- https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/nanotechnology/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_nanotechnology
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