Nanotechnology related topic for Ph.D.

This may not be exactly 'nano', and it may be ethically dubious, but it might attract some useful funding ;

http://www.switched.com/2008/11/24/bug-sized-spy-bots-headed-for-the-battlefield/

Thie one may be more acceptable, and also has funding potential ;

http://crnano.typepad.com/crnblog/2006/08/nanotech_scienc.html

Apart from research funding being useful, it gives a better chance of backing for ideas to reach implementation.

Carbon nanotubes seem to be a hot subjet at present.

Carbon nano tube is old technology unless some is trying to look low cost manufacturing and chemical based laydown.

There are other important technological challenges and reawrds are there and few are below

1. Research in Nano molecules compatible to human body which can detect cancer cell trap them and kill them. This will be service tohumanity

2. Research long wavelength microwave sensers materials for explosive detection and defusion based on heat generation and explosion so human being does not get hurt

3. making senser which can be nano and is paintable for fire, acident and proximaty detection

4. Developing self sustain sensors for atmospheric control and remote sensing

I can go on but these are the topic which is interest and will make money, have job on his or her term and if wants to lay down business on Ph.D, thesis one can have all the funding if done suscessully in USA.

Masyood Akhtar Ph.D.

Masyood@gmail.com

I can think of one great application for little nanobots that fly around and have sensing and communications tech onboard: detecting IED's, landmines and other ordinance that's causing people grief.

If nano means you can do it at the scale where it's not heavy enough to trigger such ordinance, then you wouldn't have to count cost too much (sent my bot to detect a bomb.. now I need a new bot...)

hmmm.....

That's totally amazing, Kris Did you make it?

If only.....it's clipped from the first link. I'm waiting for a cell phone to die so I can make one of these;

The eccentric loaded motor, to make the phone vibrate, is just right for a bristlebot. Not very nano, but would make for good desktoop fun (or even an educational toy for kids)

Nano will play part if materials have high microwave frequency which can penetrate deeper in the ground to detect. This is 100% do able technology and will be done with pure materials and is microwave sensar materials

Masyood

It absolutely depends on her interest and what she likes. Nano Technology is multidispline technology and it will be very hard for any one to suggest without knowing what her interest is.

I can give you my example I started working in Nano technology in 1984 when it was called macromolecules and in 1987 developed Nano technology based coating of pure silica on top of pager glass which was developed by Motorola and is in history book.

In 1988 developed low k dielectric paste for thick film electronic development for space and under ground devices the Nano gold and Nano dielectric which I traded it to other world biggest company and they are still saling this.

Nano goes from making green powder to making cancer drug and next generation medicine. Nano will bring next generation fertilize for growing food in which we will have fertilizer stored for controlled discharge to cleaning road year round from snow.

Nano will finally one day eliminate driving car. Car front body will have enough sensor to drive itself without accident and clogging road.

I can keep going but the bottom line is it is her interest and that is important. If I can help my email address is Masyood@gmail.com

Doug,

You get a GA from me on this one. It seems more and more lately that some people think this forum should be a short cut to good engineering. We're not. Some of the people discussing ideas on this board do have engineering degrees, while clearly others do not (well at least not in the field their mumbling in.) Should this lady ever choose to query us on an aspect of her research, we'll gladly voice our opinions. But as you said this is her time to fly.

Thanks RF - at the Ph.d. level the more common problem is get the student to narrow it down to just one aspect of all of the ideas swimming around in his head. A quick google on nano engineering gets you 8300 entries. Seems like the forum has become an easy way out.

d

Apart from google ;

http://cr4.globalspec.com/search/sitesearch?do=show&sort=textmatchrank&srch=Nanotechnology&order=asc

Dear niece of nvmani

please design some nanobots to go to work in the stratosphere getting rid of the halogenated compounds that destroy the protective ozone.

you could win a nobel prize, like these guys.

Everyone will love and admire you, your grandchildren won't have to wear sunblock or spacesuits, and I can enjoy my coffee breaks playing happily with bristlebots.

sincerely,

the sunday-addled artsmith (too much coffee, not enough bots)

Suggest that a bit more info would help. What topics is she interested in? Biology? Medicine? Drug delivery? Physics? Food science? Polymers? Water chemistry? Bioengineering? That would help us to suggest a topic.

I thought I had posted here, but it never showed up. In short, she should select a topic that can get funding. Appeal to fear or the lust for power. Fear: what will happen if a child ingests nanodevices? Through intestine and into brain? Power: Nanoweapons. Nanobots dispensed as aerosol, which will incapacitate enemies but not kill children. (Consider a nonobot flea which would cause intense itching) Nanobots avoid the stigma of chemical or biological "weapons of mass destruction."

Ph.D. is not for getting funding this is greed and not a Ph.D. Ph.D. to create and carve research path in which people line up on your door with funding and makes common people life little easy to than yesterday.

I am sure she must have some thing in mind but this is good forum to get idea and then debate in night in front of mirror to select one which makes her heart to agree to do and her education up to master make her competent to do.

When I did my Ph.D. every one including dean said you can not see liquid silica in solution and I believed unless I see I can not manipulate and after one and half year and two time going to dean committee and two time coming back with extension in time finally developed method how to see silica size and shape in liquid and the result of that is coating on first generation of pager, replacement of boron rod by low denisty silica rod to control heavy water temperature in atomic power plant, mono size perfect spherical powder to control thickness of LEDs and other flat panel and so on.

Getting idea floated is not a bad thing but at the end she will come up with topic which will make our life little easier than what we have to-day and in my mind that is real PhD. degree other are support Ph.D. I say which I got Ph.D. and got licence to work in research and development and make my two end meets which is more than 98 percent of the degree but some time with this type of discussion one may come up with break trough topic and that is the reason I liked it

Masyood

Masyood@gmail.com

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