How about nanotechnology? These is the latest technology that widely explore by researcher and they still dig all the potential of it. The truth is nanotechnology have been use as our daily equipment without you even heard about it. What are they, lets find it out more.

Don’t you know that alternative energy are provided by nature such as the sun, water, wind, and many others. One of it is our body. Latest invention showing that the energy in our body could charge a cell phone.

The energy we’re talking about is our heart beat. With nanotechnology these are possible to be done. These technology using zinc oxide nano wires to produce electricity. Meaning all of your movement from walking, breathing, and your heart beat could produce electricity.

Of course these requires million of nano wires to produce significant electric to charge a gadget. But these wires are super small, as an explanation 500 nano wires equal the size of strand of human hair. Quite small isn’t it.

These wires are connected to nano generator which produce 1 micro ampere with 3 volt, which is equal to two AA size battery. It might not be that big, but bigger and wider research could explore it more, and these research shows indication later we could have more advance electronic devices with nano technology inside it.

If in general, regular disk space has three dimensions, but with a gold nanorod, researchers are able to add two dimensions, one based on the color spectrum, the other based on polarization.

Structure of nanoscale materials can be incorporated into a disk to increase storage capacity, without increasing the physical size of the disc itself.

So if you’re asking is this just a theory or another research test that required giant company sponsor in order to distribute it massively, then the answer is we’re looking for it in the next 3-5 years ahead. Because this project has been ogled by the Korean electronics giant, Samsung. Hopefully in a few years this product will be commercialized. Previously, one the U.S. company technology, General Electric has developed a holographic disc which has 100 times the storage capacity of standard DVDs.

Meanwhile, dual-layer disc Blu-ray is touted as a digital disc storage media format of the future has a storage capacity of an average of 10 times the regular DVD, the Blu-ray disc itself have been release for several years, but just being use widely these days. Imagine how many data or movies could be save in one disc storage, not too mention if you’re using certain program for ripping DVDs, the size would be more smaller but still have best quality as its original.

Nanotechnology entered the realm of quantum mechanics when an antenna-like device sized silicone sheet 1 / 10 the width of a human hair oscillated. With two sets of teeth like a comb / pedal paddle to surface, the antenna not only exhibits the first quantum nano-mechanical motion but also nano-structures that can move fastest in the world.

Operating at gigahertz speeds, the technology could help further miniaturize wireless communication devices such as cellular phones, which exchange information at gigahertz frequencies. But more important to the researchers, the oscillator lies at the cusp between classical physics (which is done all the people every day) with quantum physics (the nature of the molecule). Comprised of 50 billion atoms, the antenna built is the largest structure to display quantum mechanical movements.

For several decades engineers have made ​​phenomenal advances in information technology by shrinking electronic circuitry and which can be loaded into chips semiconductors. Shrinking electronic or mechanical systems further, will inevitably require new paradigms involving quantum theory. For example, mechanical / quantum mechanical hybrids could be used in quantum computing.

At a certain frequency, the paddles begin to vibrate in concert, causing the central beam to move at the same high frequency, but with increasing amplitude and easily measured. Where each paddle moves only about one femtometer, roughly the diameter of the nucleus, the antenna moves as far as 1 / 10 pikometer, a very small distance that still translation up to 100 times the amplitude.

When fabricating and testing the nano-mechanical device, the researchers placed the entire apparatus, including the cryostat and monitoring equipment, in a state of art, walls and floors are made of copper. This arrangement protects the study of vibration noise and electromagnetic radiation that can be generated unwanted equipment from the outside, such as cell phone signals, even the movement of subway trains outside the building.

Some telecommunication devices or equipments such as cb radio could receive and broadcast more frequency with these nanotechnology.

Albert Einstein himself, as part of his doctoral dissertation, to calculate the size of a sugar molecule from experimental data. The result of each molecule is about one nanometer. Nearly one hundred years later, has become the agenda nanometer many researchers.

But, really is not all nano technology was truly nano. There is a real deal or micron size structures one by one millionth of a meter, a thousandth, and larger than other nanoscale. Nano technology in most cases is also not really a technology. However, more research form the basis of various structures with dimensions of one to hundreds of nanometers.

Another confusion, a number of nano technology has been used since. For example the nano-size carbon black particles have been exploited as an additional placard tires since a hundred years ago. Vaccines are often comprised of one or more protein-dimensional nano-scale can also be incorporated in these technologies.

Nature has a lot to create nanostructures. However, a more stringent definition may be submitted as Mihail C. Rocco from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the United States. According to the site Sciam.com Mihail, nano technology has a number of important elements; dimensions between one and 100 nanometers, was designed through a process of controlling the chemical and physics, and can be combined to form larger structures.

And, according to the definition of technology that actually exists. For example combining several layers of material, each layer thickness of less than one nanometer, can produce sensors for disk drives are more sensitive. Since its introduction in 1975, these magnetic products have become the growth drivers of the data storage industry.

The more the small size of electronic chips are also factors that foster interest in nanotechnologies. Computer company that has a large laboratory, such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, insert the nano program in its activities. When conventional silicon electronic equipment is not used anymore, maybe ten or 25 years, we can be sure the electronic equipment nanotechnologies will replace it. An example of the usage of small size Nano in electronic equipment is in cd printer.

Outside of biology and electronics, nano particles are used to improve the quality of everyday products. For example a company called Nano phase Technologies has made the particles of zinc oxide for sunscreen products (sunscreen), so the cream is usually white turns transparent.