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Most ordinary folk do not know what nanotech does yet it can have very powerful impact on our lives. One easy definition is: Nanotechnology is the science of building machines at a subatomic level Michael takes us several steps beyond that and applies principles developed in Physics to solve issues at the microlevel. Tiny devices, no bigger than a red blood cell, can deliver big payloads. At such sizes materials have different chemical and physical characteristics. At this size, quantum mechanics is more important. For example, carbon atoms can conduct electricity and are stronger than steel when woven into hollow microscopic threads. One current interest: Studying biological molecules’ response to mechanical forces, to understand structure formation in biomolecules. A Few Important Potentials: Drug Delivery-Direct to Cancer, thus minimizing side effects and damage to other bodily systems Medical Therapy-Absorption of free radicals much more rapidly than our body’s own proteins Nano-robots- Specially designed to move internally in ways not before possible…i.e. the brain to ‘fry’ tumors "Direct observation of multiple misfolding pathways in a single prion protein molecule." H. Yu, X. Liu, K. Neupane, A.N. Gupta, A.M. Brigley, A. Solanki, I. Sosova, M.T. Woodside, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 109, 5283-5288 (2012).