- Title
- Of science and small things: recollections of the past twenty(-)odd years
- Creator
- Botha, J. R
- Subject
- Nanoscience
- Subject
- Nanotechnology
- Subject
- f-sa
- Type
- text
- Type
- Lectures
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/20867
- Identifier
- vital:29409
- Description
- I will start, therefore, with an overview of achievements in a “new” field of endeavour, a science of small things, popularly called nanoscience, and its spin-off called nanotechnology. I will present a brief history, look at the approaches that have been followed by scientists and engineers to develop and understand small things, and summarise some of the benefits to society in terms of new materials and processes, energy storage and generation, electronics, environmental applications, medicine and transportation. Since our own research focuses on the development on semiconductors, I will conclude the scientific part of the presentation by considering the contribution of semiconductors to the development of nanotechnology and highlight a few examples from our own research during the past two decades on the development of nano-scale semiconductor structures, like nanorods, quantum wells and superlattices.
- Format
- 48 pages
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures
- Relation
- Inaugural lectures May 2013
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
- Hits: 1699
- Visitors: 1811
- Downloads: 125
Thumbnail | File | Description | Size | Format | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
View Details Download | SOURCE1 | Of Science and Small Things | 3 MB | Adobe Acrobat PDF | View Details Download |