GE 8 - NANO WORLD

1. What is the primary focus of nanotechnology?

• Large-scale manufacturing

• Operating at a very small dimension

• Biological research

• Chemical synthesis

2. What are the two fundamental approaches to nanomanufacturing?

• Left and right

• Up and down

• Inside and outside

• Bottom-up and top-down

3. Which method involves building products from atomic and molecular-scale components?

• Bottom-up fabrication

• Top-down fabrication

• Sideways fabrication

• Inside-out fabrication

4. What does Dip pen lithography involve?

• Dipping a pen into ink

• Dipping an atomic force microscope tip into a chemical fluid

• Printing with a regular printer

• Carving patterns on a surface

5. What is the purpose of Chemical vapor deposition?

• Forming impure films

• Creating low-performance films

• Reacting chemicals to form high-performance films

• Generating nanoscale attributes

6. Which process involves "stamping" or "printing" nanoscale attributes onto a surface?

• Dip pen lithography

• Self-assembly

• Nanoimprint lithography

• Roll-to-roll processing

7. What is the primary goal of nanomanufacturing?

• Producing large-scale materials

• Creating low-quality products

• Developing new products and improved materials

• Increasing material waste

8. What is the approximate diameter of DNA?

• 1 nanometer

• 2 nanometers

• 10 nanometers

• 5.5 nanometers

9. Which technology enables identification of specific disease markers in the blood at a fairly inexpensive cost?

• Nanoimprint lithography

• Dip pen lithography

• Atomic force microscopy

• Bio-barcode assay

10. Who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope?

• Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll

• Gerd Binig and Heinrich Rohrer

• Marie Curie and Pierre Curie

• Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein