{"654842":{"#nid":"654842","#data":{"type":"news","title":"The Nanotechnology Revolution Is Here\u2014We Just Haven\u2019t Noticed Yet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003EBefore there was a \u0026ldquo;metaverse,\u0026rdquo; before there were crypto millionaires, before\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003Enearly every kid in America wanted to be an influencer, the most-hyped thing in\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003Etech was \u0026ldquo;nanotechnology.\u0026rdquo; \u0026ldquo;Nano-,\u0026rdquo; for those who could use a refresher, means\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026ldquo;one billionth,\u0026rdquo; and nanotechnology generally refers to materials manipulated at\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003Ean atomic or molecular scale.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nFor decades, computer scientists and physicists speculated that, any minute now,\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003Enanotechnology was going to completely reshape our lives, unleashing a wave of humanity-saving inventions. Things haven\u0026rsquo;t unfolded as they predicted but,\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003Equietly, the nanotech revolution is under way.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003EYou can thank the microchip. Engineers and scientists are using the same technology perfected over decades to make microchips to create a variety of other\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003Eminiature marvels, from submicroscopic machines to new kinds of lenses. These nano-scale gizmos have become so integrated into the fabric of our lives, and the devices in our pockets, that we seem to have missed the fact that they are real-life examples of the nanotechnology revolution we were promised over the past half-century.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003ERead the full story in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-nanotechnology-revolution-is-herewe-just-havent-noticed-yet-11642827640?mod=Searchresults_pos2\u0026amp;page=1\u0022\u003EWall Street Journal, January 22, 2022\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The nanotech revolution is under way"}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2022-01-27 15:17:21","changed_gmt":"2022-01-27 15:24:57","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2022-01-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654838":{"id":"654838","type":"image","title":"Close-up view of Metalenz chips on a silicon wafer","body":null,"created":"1643296246","gmt_created":"2022-01-27 15:10:46","changed":"1643296246","gmt_changed":"2022-01-27 15:10:46","alt":"Close-up view of Metalenz chips on a silicon wafer","file":{"fid":"248313","name":"2022-01-27 10.09.22.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-01-27%2010.09.22.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/2022-01-27%2010.09.22.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1105146,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/2022-01-27%2010.09.22.jpeg?itok=Iq3EzivR"}}},"media_ids":["654838"],"groups":[{"id":"155831","name":"Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute (GTMI)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWalter Rich\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["walter.rich@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}