Transcript Taking Charge of Our Own Destiny in Embracing The Future of the

Most ordinary folk do not know what nanotech does
yet it can have very powerful impact on our lives.
One easy definition is:
Nanotechnology is the science of building machines
at a subatomic level
Michael takes us several steps beyond that and
applies principles developed in Physics to solve
issues at the microlevel.
Tiny devices, no bigger than a red blood cell,
can deliver big payloads. At such sizes
materials have different chemical and physical
characteristics. At this size, quantum
mechanics is more important. For example,
carbon atoms can conduct electricity and are
stronger than steel when woven into hollow
microscopic threads.
One current interest: Studying biological molecules’
response to mechanical forces, to understand
structure formation in biomolecules.
A Few Important Potentials:
Drug Delivery-Direct to Cancer, thus minimizing side
effects and damage to other bodily systems
Medical Therapy-Absorption of free radicals much
more rapidly than our body’s own proteins
Nano-robots- Specially designed to move internally
in ways not before possible…i.e. the brain to ‘fry’
tumors
"Direct observation of multiple misfolding pathways
in a single prion protein molecule." H. Yu, X. Liu,
K. Neupane, A.N. Gupta, A.M. Brigley, A. Solanki,
I. Sosova, M.T. Woodside, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
USA 109, 5283-5288 (2012).