Science and Technology: Nano Technology and Important Abbreviations

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नैनो प्रौद्योगिकी (Nano Technology)

महत्वपूर्ण संक्षिप्त शब्द (Important Abbreviations)

Important Abbreviations

Table Supporting: महत्वपूर्ण संक्षिप्त शब्द (Important Abbreviations)
Assembler: A Nano-robotic device controlled by an onboard computer that can use available chemicals to manufacture moonscape products. It has been proposed that advanced designs could communicate, cooperate, and manoeuvre to build macro scale products. Assemblers are much more complex and probably less efficient, than fabricators.Fabricator: A small non-robotic device that can use supplied chemicals to manufacture nanoscale products under external control. Fabricators could work together to build macro scale products by convergent assembly. Like assemblers, but less complex, easier to build and probably more efficient.
Auto productivity: The ability of a system, under external control to automatically produce an identical copy of itself.Gery goo: The name given to free-range self-replicating miniature machines that could, in theory, run out of control and cause severe damage to the biosphere. The actual threat is generally overrated as we explain here.
Convergent assembly: A process of fastening small parts to obtain larger parts, then fastening those to make still larger parts, and so on; convergent assembly can be used to build a product from many smaller, components.LMNT: An abbreviation for limited molecular nanotechnology a narrowly specified type of MNT, using only diamondoid reactions: much easier to achieve than general MNT, but with nearly equivalent appeal and impact.
Diamondoid: Structures that resemble diamond in a broad sense, strong stiff structures containing dense, three dimensional networks of covalent bonds: diamondoid materials could be as much as 100 to 250 times as strong as titanium and far lighter.Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) : The ability to construct shapes, devices, and machines with atomic precision and to combine them into a wide range of products inexpensively. (see Introduction to Nanotechnology)
MNT: An abbreviation for molecular nanotechnology: refers to the concept of building complicated machines out of precisely designed molecules. To avoid confusion between this and today՚s nanoscale technologies, CRN generally favours the term molecular manufacturing.Nano factory: A self-contained macro scale manufacturing system, consisting of many molecular manufacturing systems feeding a convergent assemble system.
Macro scale: Larger than nanoscale; often implies a design that humans can directly interact with; too large to be built by a single assembler (one cubic micron of diamond contains 176 billion atoms) .Nanomechanical: Being mechanical and very small; for example, a robot that can manipulate single molecules.
Mechanochenistry: Chemistry accomplished by mechanical systems directly controlling the reactant molecules: the formation or breaking of chemical bonds under direct mechanical control. (see how does ‘inechanochemistry’ work?)Nanometer: One billionth of a meter; approximately the length of three to six atoms placed side-by-side, or the width of a single strand of DNA; the thickness of human hair is between 50,000 and 100,000 nanometres.
Micron: One millionth of a meter or about 1⟋25,000 of an inch.

Millimetre: One thousandth of a meter, or about 1⟋26 of an inch.

Nanoscale: Significantly smaller than a micron; on the scale of large molecules: capable of interacting with molecules; capable of being built by a single assembler.
Molecular manufacturing (MM) : The building of complex structures by mechanochemical processes.SNT: An abbreviation for structural nanotechnology refers to integration of nanotech features into non-MNT products also called nanomaterials.