| Nanotechnology
Applications in a Space-Based Environment
Co-sponsored by: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 Speakers: Since the 1993 CTI seminar on nanotechnology, the field has developed quickly enough to warrant a second look at this technology. The field has gone from a "what if" to a "how" mode, with engineers exploring the use of scanning tunneling microscopes and other production tools to assemble complex structures from the atomic level on up, as nature does, molecule by molecule. As an engineering discipline, molecular nanotechnology promises revolutionary advances not only in manufactured products, but in the processes used to make them. Initial applications may include space-based machining and electronic and quantum computing. The feasibility of these developments occurring over the next 20 years will be examined. Location: 1333 H Street, NW, Suite 800 |
