 Textile
industry has talked about nano-technology for several years.
The media has already reported a lot about this technology.
Nano-technology has been optimized by the Economists, Politicians
and the financial community due to its innovational power
and researchers are considering it as the key technology of
21st century. But the considerable point is to know hidden
about nano-technology?
The "nano" prefix drives from the
Greek word "nanos", which means dwarf. Nano stands
for a unit of measurement and marks the billionth part of
a metre. Nano-technology is not a new technology, but rather
describes a new way of looking at existing technologies.
Nano-technology is about the performance
increase of technical, economical and ecological parameters
with known products and processes; on the other hand it is
about new products and applications which derive from the
improvement of existing technologies.
In the past few years the following main
fields of applications have emerged:
Nano-electronics, nano-optics, nano-production, nano-biotechnology,
nano-analystics, nano-chemistry.
Nano-technology deals with surface structures,
of at least one decisive dimension are measured in nanometer.
These are products which have already been used for years,
such as colloidal silica solutions. |
