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If you are a fan of science fiction, you’ve no doubt encountered the term nanotechnology, Yet over the past year also, a series
If you are a fan of science fiction, you’ve no doubt encountered the term nanotechnology, Yet over the past year also, a series
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If you are a fan of science fiction, you’ve no doubt encountered the term nanotechnology, Yet over the past year also, a series of breakthroughs have transformed nanotech from sci-fi fantasy into a real-world. Applied science, and in the process, inspired huge investments by business, academia, and government. In industries as diverse as health care, computers, chemicals, and aerospace, nanotech is overhauling production techniques, resulting in new and improved products, some of which may already be in your home or workplace.
The inspiration for nanotech goes back to a 1959 speech by the late physicist Richard Feynman, then a professor at the California Institute of Technology, titled "There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom." Four decades later, Chad Mirkin, a Chemistry professor at Northwestern University’s $34 million nanotech center, used a nanoscale device to etch most of Feynman’s speech onto a surface the size of about 10 tobacco smoke particles.
What accounts for the sudden acceleration of nanotechnology? A key breakthrough came in 1990, when researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center succeeded in rearranging individual atoms at will. Using a device known as a scanning probe microscope, the team slowly moved 35 atoms to spell the three-letter IBM logo, thus proving Feynman fight. The entire Logo was less than three nanometers.
Soon, scientists were not only manipulating individual atoms but "spray painting" with them as well. Using a tool known as a molecular beam epitaxy, scientists have learned to create ultra fine films of specialized crystals, built up one molecular layer at a time. This is the technology used today to build read-head components for computer hard drives.
The next stage in the development of nanotechnology borrows a page from nature. Building a super-computer no bigger than a speck of dust might seem an impossible task, until one realizes that evolution solved such problems more than a billion years ago. Living ceils contain all sorts of nanoscale motors made of proteins that perform myriad mechanical and chemical functions, from muscle contraction to photosynthesis. In some instances, such motors may be re-engineered, or imitated, to produce products and processes useful to humans.
How are these biologically inspired machines constructed? Often, they construct themselves, manifesting a phenomenon of nature known as self assembly. The macromolecules of such biological machines have exactly the right shape and chemical binding preferences to ensure that when they combine they will snap together in predesigned ways. For example, the two strands that make up DNA’s double helix match each other exactly, which means that if they are separated in a complex chemical mixture, they are still able to find each other easily.
Which of the following is the function that nanoscale motors perform?
选项
A、rearranging individual atoms
B、manipulating individual atoms
C、producing products and process
D、photosynthesis and muscle concentration
答案
C
解析
第5段中讲"Living cells contain all sorts of nanoscale motors...from muscle contraction to photosynthesis."也就是说在活着的细胞中,nanoscale motors是用来完成诸如肌肉收缩和光合作用这样一些过程或者生产产品的,那么人们要制造的nanoscale motors就是想模拟细胞中的 nanoscale motors来生产产品或者是完成某种过程,所以选C。
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