04-10-2010, 05:30 PM
Introduction
The application of nanorobots for agricultural purposes and monitoring water and soil qualities may result in impressive impact towards environmental control and decreasing the damages caused by pollution to many different natural species. Applications of nanorobots are expected to provide remarkable possibilities. Over the past 15 years, insight was gained into the hydraulic conductivity of fractured and karstic rocks by introducing particles of different size, charge, and chemical composition into a flow field and monitoring the breakthrough of these particles in space and time. From this information, it is possible to infer the hydraulic aperture of the smallest throats in a flow path. Therefore, this concept can be extended to porous media using nanorobots .
A computational approach is described for the investigation of nanorobots manufacturing design , which aims to enable better tools for hydraulic conductivity interpretation. A total market for nanotechnology-based environmental applications in 2005 was evaluated in $374.9 million, and by 2010 this market will have reached more than $6.1 billion . Advantages of using nanorobots for environmental tasks are quite clear: more control in measuring microorganisms, better detection of pollutants, and improved control of water temperature, just to quoting some positive aspects.
The nanorobots hardware feasibility may be observed as the result of most recent advances in a broad range of manufacturing techniques. Inside the miniaturization trends, it is reasonable to even quote some examples such as VLSI chips, including here Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) based on current technology , which could be observed as one possible way for manufacturing embedded control computation on molecular machines in near future . Meanwhile these manufacturing methodologies may advance progressively, the use of computational nanomechatronics and virtual reality could help in the process of transducers investigation. Thus, this work aims to outline the ways to Fig. 1: Schematic view of nanorobot’s sensor identification. manufacture nanorobots system on chip to prepare its use for upcoming applications which may concern agricultural, industrial and environmental issues.
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