Sentences with phrase «enabled by nanotechnology»

While several elements of their vision sound promising — better safety features enabled by nanotechnology and satellite communications and «clever clothes» to help prevent or heal injuries after accidents — many seem downright unfeasible (passengers being given sleeping pills and stacked horizontally on beds in ships and planes) or dangerous («Big Brother - ish» surveillance devices and chips implanted in humans).

I'm confident that the best answer is going to be enabled by nanotechnology.

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From the mid-1980s on progress in nanometer - scale science and technology exploded, and the term nanotechnology was appropriated by researchers, media, businesses, and funding agencies to refer to any technology in which control of the structure of matter on a scale of nanometers to tens of nanometers to hundreds of nanometers in at least one dimension enabled unique phenomena and novel applications.

By some estimates, revenue from the sale of nanotechnology - enabled products made in the United States has grown more than six-fold from 2009 through 2016.

The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology is an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to carry out research that will enable the development of sustainable, societally beneficial nanotechnologies.

The technologies include biomimicry (production of materials by imitating nature — such as solar panels in the pattern of a leaf), gene editing and genomics, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things (where embedded software enables cars, buildings and other inanimate objects to communicate), and 3D printing.

The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology is an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to carry out research that will enable the development of sustainable, societally beneficial nanotechnologies.