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What is nanotechnology?
Sources of confusion about nanotechnology
Some persistent “nanomyths” apparently became widespread in
1966, when Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novel, “Fantastic Voy-
age” was made into a movie featuring adventures of the crew of a
miniaturized submarine which is injected into the blood stream of
a defecting scientist in order to melt an inoperable blood clot in his
brain. Moreover, in 1986, Eric Drexler publishes a book
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with a sci-
entist’s idea of nanotechnology using programmed molecular sized
robots called “nanobots” – machines that could assemble individual
atoms and molecules into required structures. Fig. 1 shows an art-
ist’s impression of nanobot (image from http:// www . thelensflare .
com/ gallery / p_nanobot_223.php).
Fig. 1. Mechanical nanorobot for molecular forced assembly.
In our opinion, nanotechnologies for petroleum industry have
little to do with building nanobots, though a popular website
Wired.com quotes one report that says tiny nanorobots will “pa-
trol the pores of an oil or gas reservoir, monitor how hydrocarbons
are flowing, decide how to maximize recovery, and dictate which
other robots in the wells and zones should produce at that moment
and which should inject water.” Moreover, a concept of nanorobots
has been a subject of some recent presentations at petroleum-
oriented conferences.
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Currently, there are no universally accepted “precise” defini-
tions which would allow distinguishing between “true” nanotech-
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