Week 8 Nanotech+art

This week's topic is nano-tech and art which i am not very interested in at the very beginning because i do not know much about nano-tech. Coincidentally, my life science professor talks about nano-tech this week as well. It makes me know about nano-tech and i start to understand the relationship between nano-tech and art.Nano-tech is actually not something that is really complicated. People does not know much about it because it is about something that happens in micro level where people will not be able to tell the changes by their eyes.

There are actually many applications of nano-tech in animals. Take peacock, who is considered as one of the most beautiful animals, as an example. As we all know, male peacock will try his best to show his good-looking plumage to females to attracting mates. This is all about the genetic nano particle on the peacocks' tail. They change colors by their wish just like magic shows. Scientists start to learn the method of that function and probably in the future we will have some product that could do the same thing.

Nano-tech are also wide applied in many other aspects. If we travel by planes very often, we will find out that different airlines' plane have different painting on the outside. That is not only to distinguish each other from other airlines, but also the nano-tech they have to protect the plane. There are actually many differences between every kind of paints, some of them are super light while others are super good at protection of the plane from high air pressure.

As I learn more informations about nano-tech, i realize that there is also great potential in this area. Things happens in micro level is actually the basic of things change in macro level. There are also millions of combinations of particles in this level which will give us unlimited opportunities to make our creative ideas come true.

Citations:

Peacock Media Group. N.d. Photograph. PMGWeb. 24 Nov 2013. <http://www.peacockmediagroup.co.uk/>.

The Amazing Potential of Nanotechnology. N.d. Photograph. 33rdsquareWeb. 24 Nov 2013. <http://www.33rdsquare.com/2013/04/the-amazing-potential-of-nanotechnology.html>.

How safe is nano-tech. N.d. Photograph. The PCIJ blogWeb. 24 Nov 2013. <http://pcij.org/blog/2008/10/16/how-safe-is-nanotechnology>.

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