Significance of Neno Technology in Construction

INFORMATION PAPER International Journal of Recent Trends in Engineering, Vol 1, No. 4, May 2009

Significance of Nanotechnology in Construction Engineering
Ashwani K. Rana1, Shashi B Rana2, Anjna Kumari3 and Vaishnav Kiran4
National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur (H.P), India Email: [e-mail] 2 Regional Campus G.N.D.U. Gurdaspur, Punjab, India Emails: [e-mail], [e-mail],[e-mail],
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Abstract— Nanotechnology is one of the most active research areas that encompass a number of disciplines including civil engineering and construction materials. Traditionally, nanotechnology has been concerned with developments in the fields of microelectronics, medicine and materials sciences. However, the potential for application of many of the developments in the nanotechnology field in the area of construction engineering is growing. In this paper a broad overview of the potential application of various nanotechnology developments in the construction engineering field is discussed, and the potential for further basic research that may lead to improved systems is evaluated. Index Terms- Nanomaterials, Construction.

I. INTRODUCTION Nanotechnology is a field that is dominated by developments in basic physics and chemistry research [1], where phenomena on atomic and molecular level are used to provide materials and structures that perform tasks that are not possible using the materials in their typical macroscopic form. The evolution of technology and instrumentation as well as its related scientific areas such as physics and chemistry are making the research on nanotechnology aggressive and evolutional [2]. Not surprisingly, it is observed that expenditure on nanotechnology research is significant. The U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) expenditures exceed $1 billion each year, with the President’s 2008 budget for NNI at $1.5 billion. However, the research is mainly moving forward motivated by

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