Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is a term referring to a range of new technological innovations that are global both in their potential impact and in the transnational composition of the research teams working to develop them. It involves innovations that result from working directly with materials at a scale of less than 100 nanometers, roughly the size of complex molecules. Nanotechnology is the study and application of extremely small things, involving many other science fields, including chemistry, biology, physics, health sciences, materials science, and engineering. Nanotechnology, therefore, deals with dimensions and tolerances of 1 to 100 nanometres, or, generally, with the manipulation of individual atoms and molecules. Mechanistic and Biomolecular, Toxicological and Pharmacokinetics, as well as Environmental Nanotechnology, can be research areas in this field.