1 Nano Dust

NANO DUST

So, in last chapter we learnt about Nanobot technology and how small they can be. Now, imagine these bots on dust particles in the air around us which we cannot even see but surrounded by it all th etime, say the whole world, ready to be used or morphed into structures, things whatever you want it to be. Lets call it Nano Dust or Magic Dust, as it really would be like magic to watch things building out of thin air.

Nano dust is a term that describes wireless networks of sub-millimeter-scale autonomous computing and sensor platforms that are smaller than a grain of sand. Nano dust collects and communicates data about its surroundings, such as light, temperature, sound, and the presence of toxins or vibrations, to parent computer systems through wireless transmission.

We have reached the level where we cannot even see the robots we ve made, furthermore they can be made in millions in no time. a 1cm x 1cm paper can contain millions and millions of these bots. They could be made and dublicate themselves blowing all over the world sending data over to the cloud and also purifying our environment. So this unseeable nanbots, infinite number of them all over the world in our environment By, 2030 every person in the world would be having nanobots inside their body. We would be breathing them in and out as we normally do and wont even know it.

Imagine the benefits and things we could achieve by this. We can control the environment and morph all those zillions and gazillions of bots into things anything we imagine. We can create anything out of thin air by just giving them signals from the cloud, using AR lenses we could give them any shape or make our own art. You can morph a spoon in a timespan of just your hand reaching the plate, taste it and then disintegrate it on another second. Its not all wrong when they say Magic and Science run on a thin line. These things could take form anything you think of. The limit would be your imagination.

WHAT ELSE NANO DUST COULD BE USED FOR? Consider a cloud of sensors the size of a grain of sand or even smaller that are swept aloft by hurricane winds and transmit data about the storm to weather stations below. Imagine an invisible sensor network installed in a city’s roadways that continuously monitors traffic, road surface deterioration, and available parking places. Alternatively, billions of nanosensors may be strewn throughout forests and other fire-prone areas to identify a fire at its earliest stages. Consider programmable smart dust that sends out an alert when undetectable microcracks in a turbine blade are discovered.

Nano dust is revolutionary because the sensors are so small that they can be placed almost anywhere, including in tight and challenging spaces. Another significant benefit is that these devices operate without the need for human interaction because they are pre-programmed and have their own power source, despite their small size. This technology is expected to monitor not only building controls, pipelines, factory equipment, and drug-making processes, but also ubiquitous autonomous artificial intelligent computation near the end user, such as authentication, medical procedures and health-care monitoring, sensing and tracking, industrial and supply-chain monitoring, and defence applications.

HOW WILL THE NANO DUST WORK? The dust is a vision of the networked future in which a trillions of tiny sensors continually sense, taste, smell, see, and hear what is going on in their surroundings, connect with one another, and share data.

And once given, the dust is managed by Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS. Mechanical (levers, springs, membranes, etc.) and electrical (resistors, capacitors, inductors, etc.) components combine to form MEMS sensors or actuators. They’ll send out messages to the dust in the surrounding environment, giving them instructions and signals to form the shape or do a function.

As you can see in the figures, i have simulated how would it look when the dust is reacting to the signals given and forming a shape. They could connect each other on a subatomic level making them so strong and even easier to disintegrate later when you do not want it anymore.

Figure 23: Magic dust gathering upon getting signals from the capsule bots.

Figure 24: Forming a shape Figure 25: Forming a boundary

Dust can be spread all over the world through air or maybe having a pipe sytem all over the city blowing dust continously into the environment, the dust would be powered by the solar so they wont even need any battery or charge time, they will be charged simultaneously, which also helps us to achieve net zero carbon emission. Imagine the house generating power itself and producing electricity.

Another potential application is the detection of harmful compounds in the environment, as well as the monitoring of their concentrations. Nanobots may be able to fix our pollution problems since they can affect things at the molecular level. A swarm of nano particles discharged into the atmosphere may quickly deconstruct pollution molecules and convert them to harmless material that could be readily removed from the atmosphere. These molecular scrubbers could clean the air till it was as clean as it had been aeons before. Nanodust have a multitude of potential applications due to their small size, which allows them to practically reconstruct matter. In this way, correctly programmed nanobotsdust might take basic materials and turn them into anything, including proteins, meals, and small microprocessors. They could, in principle, generate more nanodust through the process of auto-replication if they were set up to do so. A tiny group of nanobots might grow into a vast swarm capable of large-scale undertakings in no time.

Nanodust’s ability to act at the atomic level has far-reaching implications for industry. Industrial manufacturing necessitates a large number of resources, as well as equipment and personnel. This is due to the necessity to obtain resources, process them to make them useable, and then put them together into the things we use every day. Rather than constructing items

Figure 26: Distributing nanodust from plane

Figure 27: Nano dust swarm

piece by piece and then putting them together, industries may use nanotechnology to construct full products. Industrial nanobots would just require the most basic of raw materials to produce practically anything because they can utilise raw molecules. These factories could simply reprogram the nanobots to manufacture something new if they had adequate raw materials. This would eliminate the need to replace substantial portions of the manufacturing in order to adjust the output.

As nanoweapons, nanodust might be used for military surveillance, assassinations, and even eating away and destroying enemy armour. Army engineers are building armies of nanobots, which are used to find bombs, clean weaponry, or fly over remote areas of a battlefield, and are inspired by colonies of bees, ants, and locusts. Each unique robot is simple in design, but the swarm’s overall behaviour is far more complicated. A bee colony can be called a superorganism with swarm intelligence, and the entire army of robots can be considered one unique customised system.

Nanobots would be made in nanofactories no bigger than a typical desktop printer, according to Molecular Nanotechnology (MNT), the umbrella science of nanomedicine. The nanofactories would use nanoscale instruments capable of building nanobots to extremely precise specifications. The task-specific design, shape, size, and type of atoms, molecules, and computerised components would be used. Nanobots would be a very economical and appealing technology because the raw materials for generating them would be essentially free, and the manufacturing process would be virtually pollution-free.

WHERE ARE WE TODAY IN TERMS OF USING NANOTECH IN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY? To give building ceramics the following property, nanoparticles of TiO2, Al2O3, or ZnO are added as a final coating. When exposed to UV radiation, TiO2 breaks down filth and pollution, allowing it to be washed away by rainfall on surfaces such as tiles, glass, and sanitaryware. In coatings and paints, ZnO is utilised to provide UV resistance. Scratch resistance is achieved using nanosized Al2O3 particles. Bad odours, fungi, and mould are also prevented or slowed down by these surfaces.

There ae also applications of nanotech in construction solar paints. The paint can be sprayed to practically any surface and, once dry, connects to the light-sensitive grid to begin pumping power. This type of technology is ideal for government buildings, where solar paint could reduce energy usage while saving money for taxpayers, and Next Gen is determined to making this a reality soon. The applications and uses of Nanodust is vast and growing, it can be everything it needs to be in every field. No wonder it can be called ‘Magic Dust’.

Well there are some risks over nanodust being world wide, like many that have reservations about the real-world implications of smart dust are concerned about privacy issues. Since smart dust devices are miniature sensors they can record anything that they are programmed to record. Since they are so small, they are difficult to detect. Your imagination can run wild regarding the negative privacy implications when smart dust falls into the wrong hands.

While the technology has forward momentum, there’s still quite a bit to resolve before you will see it impacting your organization. However, it’s important to pay attention to its trajectory of growth, because it’s no longer the fodder of science fiction. We might not know when it will progress to the point of wide-scale adoption, but we certainly know it’s a question of when rather than if.