Question: How does nano-technology work.

Fiona Hatch answered on 9 Mar 2012:

Nano technology is a name given to any technology that uses nano (tiny) sized pieces of metal.

Lets use a computer chip as an example. A computer chip works by sending electrical signals between two pieces of metal, that is why if you have ever seen a computer chip, it has silver dots all over it and these can send messages to each other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cmosic.JPG This image just shows a small chip made of metal.

Now with technology everyone wants a smaller mobile phone, or a thinner mobile phone. Or like the ipad which is super thin! But they still want the phone to work and do amazing things, play games, watch programs on it and everything. And so it still needs all the computer chips inside. So how do they get all the computer chips inside but make the overall mobile phone small and thinner?

They created nano-techonology.

Nano refers to a type of measurement. So 1cm is the same as 10millimetres which is the same as 1000 micrometers which is the same as 1000micrometers and 1 micrometer is the same as 1000 nanometers. So nano means very very very very very very very small.

The way nano technology works, is that they use heat and various machines with high pressure, to cause certain metals to cling to each other. They do this on a tiny chip. The metals can join and create a path that they can send messages across which is the same as a computer chip but very very small. This is how TV’s are getting thinner, mobile phones and ipads are thin but still do amazing things.

There are many other uses, this is one example. They are even trying to create nano-cells that they can inject into humans and monitor how you’re feeling. It is really amazing how tiny they are getting things.