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I just found out that around five years ago, I wrote something related to this topic, but I did my work without using that as a reference. 

I. Introduction: Nanotechnology is an application of science in order to study the characteristics of the material or devices in Nano-scale. Nowadays, nanotechnology is used in biology, physics, and chemical field.

II. Summary of Seminar:

In general, we might think that mechanics is used to describe the equation of motion in mechanics, but during the seminar we got to have different points of view from the soft machines side. A well-known physicist, Richard Feynman opened a new chapter of top- down nanotechnology to conceptualize from the bottom up. “There is plenty of Room at the bottom.” was to express that do not just look on a surface-level but also check on operating beneath the surface. In the seminar we had a chance to learn not just three versions of nanotechnology, but also a few particular ways of explaining about technology changing processes. It gave me a more holistic and expanded my view of nanotechnology.

In the past, I had the idea of nanotechnology only in semiconductors, but the truth is that it is not just related to small devices. For example, Biological, Quantum Nano device and Drexler’s machine are involved in nanotechnology.

III. Application:

First of all, people might say that friction or not able to control mech-anosynthesis is something related to the Drexler Nano system, because understanding the detail about it required more research. For example, when x does not work on a xyz coordinates, we can try the y or z axes. There is more than one option available. Secondarily, biology is astonishingly efficient at the Nano level, and it has already been proved that nanotechnology in biology works very well. Therefore we can exploit the different physics at nanoscale, but unfortunately it is impossible to scale down biological macro-engineering. Maybe it requires

new design principles from macro- engineering before reaching the goals. The physics of “soft mechanics “in the quantum domain is largely classical. The challenge is not only in trying to bring the scale smaller in one dimension like a thin coating on the surface, but in three dimensions like a nanoparticle and quantum dot. This can cause new changes since different characters might occur.

There needs to be more research done in Drexlerian nanotechnology since there has been essentially no progress. The key is how people make things on a smaller scale. This does not mean that to create something smaller would illicitly a better and cheaper product, but it is a truly revolutionary nanotechnology in a bottom-up approach of self-assembly.

Because soft mechanics is at the cutting edge of Nano technology, therefore the innovation can be applied in a fabrication system such as Nano formulated food ingredients, thin Nano particles coating and other useful technologies. If there is a good economic environment, then there is a better chance to incorporate high nanotechnology in different applications in the world, moreover economic support for research driven by economic success.