A review of applications and future prospects of nanotechnology

Abstract

At the beginning of the 21st century, human beings entered the era of nanotechnology, and more scientists began to pay attention to and engage in the research of nanotechnology in different fields. This article introduces the origin and development history of nanotechnology and reviews its applications in energy equipment, environmental protection, and medical treatment, which reflect the importance of nanotechnology for human production and life based on existing literature and data. It can be seen that nanotechnology is a very promising technology that has made great achievements in the fields of energy equipment, medicine, environmental protection, and so on. At the same time, in the application and development of nanotechnology, there are not only safety risks in the use process but also opportunities to create new technologies and new materials. So, nanotechnology, as a relatively young technology, still has gaps or little research in some research fields, such as the emerging green nanotechnology, the precise control of nanostructures by self-assembly technology, and the way to industrial production, which will also become a hot trend in nanotechnology research in the future.