During the past two centuries, we have come across three industrial revolutions. From initial drawings and experiments to the conception of mature technological wonders, each revolution was leveraged by introducing disruptive technologies: the steam engine, the development of the modern production line, and the increasing speed of the computer. Industry 4.0 is the fourth industrial…
In 1959, during a lecture at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman asked the following question: Is it possible to write the 24 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica on the head of a pin? For this to happen, we would have to write each letter of the encyclopedia in a space 1000 times smaller than the…
Nanotechnology is the science of the very small. At the nano-scale, materials and chemical/physical reactions can be very different from those taking place in the macroscopic world. With the ability to fabricate nanomaterials, researchers open the door to innovative materials, with tailored properties, and some are truly exotic, when compared with traditional ones. Nanotechnology has…