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Asked by spacenut1982 to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 18 Jun 2013.
Question: What do you think the best application of nanotechnology is or will be in the future?
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Christina Pagel answered on 18 Jun 2013:
hmmmmmmmm probably something i can’t even imagine!
but one potentially hugely important thing would be if they could make solar cells better (already an active topic of research) – that way solar electricity for all could become a real possibility (with solar cars, solar planes, solar houses, solar trains…) … this would be huge for preventing the worst impacts of climate change and also life changing for people in developing countries…
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Steven Gardner answered on 19 Jun 2013:
I’m going to say the medical possibilities. I like the idea of being able to send in a little team of robots to kill all my cancer cells.
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spacenut1982 commented on :
Interesting! Can’t you now get plasters with nanotechnology being antibiotic? If so how does it work?
Christina commented on :
no idea! *quick google later* ooh yes you can! that’s cool! but i don’t know how it works… can you get New Scientist magazine in your school library? (or you could just buy it) – I’ve been getting it for years – it’s brilliant at keeping you up to date with all the latest stuff! and it’s written for non-experts – which is just well since no one is expert in more than one or two things normally!
spacenut1982 commented on :
We can’t get it in our school library! It’s not that good! But I’ll definitely take a look!!