​Nanotechnology
Definition
Nanotechnology (often shortened to nanotech) is the understanding and use of matter on an atomic and molecular scale for industrial purposes. Manipulating matter at nanoscale — between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers — holds potential for novel applications in many fields, including genomics, engineering, computer science and medicine.
Narration
Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology studies and designs materials, a nanometer scale which is 1 billionth of a meter or 10 to the minus 9ths of a meter. Material at the nanometer scale behaves differently than bulk material. Nanotechnology has brought applications in genomics and biomedical field. For example, next-gen sequencing technologies, especially for long-reads of single DNA molecules, use nanotechnology approaches. The highly successful Covid-19 or SARS-CoV-2 MRA vaccines use nanoparticles for delivery.
