The Role of Heat & Mass Transfer in Nanotechnology - From the Viewpoint of Manufacturing

摘要

"Nanotechnology" has been analyzed from the viewpoints of industrial science and technology and from the manufacturing technology. The trends and characteristics of nanotechnology are described and me importance of nanomanufacturing has been stressed. The role of thermal engineering and the transport phenomena in the microscale effects has been explained and the importance of the active control of heat & mass transfer and the transport phenomena was focused for controlling the microscale phenomena. Microscale thermal engineering has been successfully researched for realizing advanced thermal engineering by utilizing microscale and nanoscale phenomena. From the viewpoint of nanotechnology, several advanced heat transfer characteristics have been realized and actual examples of microscale thermal engineering for promoting energy conservation have been explained.