Istanbul Gelisim University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture: Bulletin (May 2023)

Abstract

NANOTECHNOLOGY

“Today's science fiction is generally tomorrow's science fact” As Stephen HAWKING said, the things that seem impossible for us today and that we say are only science fiction are actually the science foundations of tomorrow. The concept of nanotechnology is at the forefront of these. Nanotechnology; It is a science with a short history that aims to design and synthesize new nanostructures or to give nanostructures new extraordinary properties and to use these properties in new functions. The first emergence of nanotechnology is based on the famous physicist Richard Feynman's speech on the production of materials and devices at molecular dimensions on December 29, 1959 in California. In his speech titled “There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom”, although he did not fully use the term “nano”, he expressed the idea of directing and controlling everything on a small scale. And this speech can be described as the breakthrough moment of nanotechnology today.