Advanced Building Blocks

As a child you have played with Lego and Mega Blocks and enjoyed constructing unique structures out of them. There was the picture which provided guidance on what you were to make, but there was also more fun to be had when you developed structures out of your own imagination. In science projects based on nano technology you do much the same thing.

You get to build new materials, medicines, or electric wires using the basic building blocks of nature. This means that you play around with atoms and molecules of existing materials in order to produce new combinations resulting in new materials. These new materials often have better resistance, or more strength or improved healing capacities compared to the older materials that they have been derived from.

That is how a constant cycle of improvement is maintained. Eventually the new material is converted into a gadget that is tested by the researchers in the laboratory. After the tests are conducted the model is improved based on the results.Now it is tested again by scientists before it is finally developed into a commercially viable gadget.

Now that gadget can be bought and used everyday by normal people around the world. This is the process that each science project follows, more or less give or take a few more steps, to bring new gadgets to you.