THE BIGGER THE BETTER? Sometimes being smaller is better. That accounts for so called nanomaterials. These materials are in the range of 1 to 100 nanometres, but what is a nanometre? Nano is Greek for dwarf which means that a nanometre is a billionth of a meter. That is incredibly small. For example: Your fingernails grow at a speed of circa one nanometre per second. More examples for the better understanding of this hard-to-imagine size will be given throughout this unit.<\/p>\n
Practical relevance \u2013 This is what you will need the knowledge and skills for<\/strong><\/p>\n In this unit you will learn, what nanotechnology is and what it is used for in general. You will get an insight on how small a nanometre is and how the size of the nanoparticles gives them remarkable properties. Moreover, you will learn about the history of nanotechnology and that it can be found in various fields of modern research and technology.<\/p>\n Overview of learning objectives and competences <\/strong><\/p>\n In \u201eUnderstanding the nano dimension\u201d you will learn how small the world of nanotechnology is.<\/p>\n In \u201cHistory of nanotechnology\u201d you will get to know nature as the first great nanotechnologist and how we imitate many of those principles until today.<\/p>\n \u201cNanotechnology in different disciplines\u201d gives an insight on the various branches of science, making use of nanotechnology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE BIGGER THE BETTER? Sometimes being smaller is better. That accounts for so called nanomaterials. These materials are in the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2381,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vibebp_attr":"","_vibebp_dimensions":"","_vibebp_responsive_height":"","_vibebp_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"course-cat":[],"class_list":["post-988","course","type-course","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/course"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course\/988\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"course-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lms.nanoproject.eu\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/course-cat?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}