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‘Nanotechnology future of science’

MANGALORE: Imagine manufacturing gold instead of mining for it. It may not be an impossible task, according to C.B Shobhan, coordinator of the Centre for Nanotechnology, National Institute of Technology, Calicut. “It is another matter that the world economy will go into a tizzy if gold loses its precious-metal status,” he said in a lighter vein.

Mr. Shobhan was delivering a lecture on “Wonders of nanotechnology”, organised by the Association of Physics Teachers, Mangalore University, at St. Aloysius College here on Saturday.

Speaking to presspersons on the sidelines of the programme, he said that one of the greatest things about nanotechnology was that it could be used to re-engineer materials by changing the structure of substances at a fundamental level.

Nanotechnology deals with substances at the billionth level of their basic building blocks that comprise atoms and molecules. Dr. Shobhan said that when stimulus was applied to substances at micro-level, the results could be astounding.

This branch of science could have far reaching effect on the field of immunology. It had the potential to change the nature of life forms at the fundamental level, he said.

Mr. Shobhan said this branch of study lent itself into the invention of new hybrid substances which could transform the socio-economic climate of the world.

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