The Alchemy of Nanotechnology

摘要

There's been a steady stream of press releases on Nanotechnology announcing weekly breakthroughs from every corner of the globe. Some of it may even be true! Unfortunately, there's so much hype that the "nano" moniker now proclaims cool products. The annoying cliches like "big things from small technology..." wear nano-thin. Yet, many of us believe that nanotech will ultimately deliver significant results to fundamentally change the electronics and printed circuit board industries. Even today, materials based on nano-particles are commercially available and some, like nano-silica, are used as fillers. Nano-metals are now widely available and being considered for PCB and packaging applications. But are nano materials new?