The nanoworld
Video in French - Nanostructures – structures about a hundred nanometres long, which diffract light – are used to create new optical instruments by imitating nature. What applications are being considered? Could they revolutionize the telecommunications industry?
Visuals copyrights: Synchrotron SOLEIL, NASA Ames Research Center, CEA, www.slideshare.net, La prochaine révolution industrielle?, Les nanotechnologies : source d’innovation pour les entreprises, Pascal ROYER, Laboratoire de Nanotechnologie et d’Instrumentation Optique (LNIO), Université de Technologie de Troyes, Flickr / Papillons, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Lotus3.jpg (effet lotus)
Nanotechnology - Feel free to watch our other videos (in French) on this topic:
2/ The nanoworld
3/ Singular properties of nanoparticles
4/ Giant magnetoresistance (GMR)
5/ The scanning tunnelling microscope