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Nanoforum Report Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food May 2006 Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food A Nanoforum report available for download from www nanoforum org Tiju Joseph and Mark Morrison Institute of Nanotechnology May 2006 1 Introduction 2 1 1 What is Nanotechnology 2 1 2 Nanotechnology in the Food Market 2 2 Nanotechnology in Agriculture 4 2 1 Precision Farming 4 2 2 Smart Delivery Systems 5 2 3 Other Developments in the Agricultural Sector due to Nanotechnology 6 3 Nanotechnology in the Food Industry 7 3 1 Packaging and Food Safety 7 3 2 Food Processing 10 4 Conclusions 12 Further Reading 13 About Nanoforum 14 1 Introduction The current global population is nearly 6 billion with 50 living in Asia A large proportion of those living in developing countries face daily food shortages as a result of environmental impacts or political instability while in the developed world there is a food surplus For developing countries the drive is to develop drought and pest resistant crops which also maximize
Nano Materials and Nanotechnology Dr R Ramaseshan From University of Tennessee web site Forward What is Nanotechnology Variants of Nanotechnology Drawbacks What is Nanotechnology Loosely defined as Matter at dimensions roughly in the range of 1 100nm Exploitation of novel and improved properties phenomena and processes specific at the scale level discussed earlier The technology to build Nano level matter using either a bottom up b top down process What makes nanostructured materials interesting Electronics and optical applications Can be defect free electrons move ballistically Quantum confinement optical properties Mechanical Properties Small enough to be defect free thus exhibiting ideal strength Thermal Properties Can be designed to conduct substantially or worse than the bulk materials Chemical Properties Dominated by large surface to volume ratio Nanotechnologies Dry Nanotechnology which drives from surface science and physical chemistry focuses on fabrication of physical structures of inorganic materials Si C Wet 