a. The art of turning lead into gold.
b. A marketing scheme that can be applied to any product, since all products are made of atoms and molecules.
c. Application of our ability to understand and control the structure of matter on the nanometer scale.
d. Literally meaning "no technology" nanotechnology refers to technology that is either nonexistent or is so small that it has no noticeable effects.
Nanogen is a company that makes...
a. Biosensors
b. Nanoparticles
c. Software
d. Microscopes
Self-Assembly is a process by which components...
a. Assemble copies of themselves.
b. Spontaneously assemble, without the requirement for external energy or information.
c. Move along an assembly line automatically.
d. Are placed into position by robotic arms.
VLSI stands for...
a. Virtual Library of Standards for Industry
b. Vacant Lumo String Illumination
c. Very Large Scale Integration
d. Vacuum Light Senstive Interferometer
As of the year 2001, the vast majority of computer chips are fabricated by...
a. Photolithography
b. Directed Assembly
c. Laser Ablation
d. Micro-Contact Printing
Richard Smalley (Nobel Prize winner for discovery of fullerenes) has named his start-up company...
a. Nanotubes R' Us
b. SmallTech
c. uckminsterfuller Inc
d. Carbon Nanotechnologies Incorporated
Which of the following is not a historical (as of the year 2001) example of a disruptive technology?
a. Steam engines being replaced by electric and gasoline engines.
b. Printed material being replaced by electronic data storage.
c. Chemical computation replacing solid-state silicon chips.
d. Fax machine/telephone/telegraph replacing snail mail.
Which of the following is the least established nanotechnology organization?
a. The Foresight Institute
b. European Nanoelectronics Network (PHANTOMS)
c. Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN)
d. Global Nanotechnology Organization for Material Engineering (GNOME)
How much money did former US president Bill Clinton propose to spend on a "National Nanotechnology Initiative" for the Fiscal Year 2001?
a. 50 million USD
b. 500 million USD
c. 5 Billion USD
d. 50 Billion USD
If Gold costs 10 Dollars / Gram, how much would one gold atom cost? (Assume the following: Molecular weight of Gold = 197 g/mol; 1 mol = 6 x 1023 atoms; No discount for buying in bulk)
a. 5 zepto-dollars / Atom
b. 9.8 x 10^-18 Dollars / Atom
c. 3.3 x 10^-21 Dollars / Atom
d. 1.6 x 10^-23 Dollars / Atom
Which of the following stocks dropped from 15 USD/Share to less than 0.1 USD/Share between September 2000 and June 2001?
a. ThermoMicroscopes - TMO
b. Nanophase Technologies - NANX
c. Nanometrics Inc - NANO
d. Nanoworld Projects Corporation - NAPH
After sequencing the human genome, Celera acquired Axys in order to...
a. Develop new drugs.
b. Sequence individual people, for a not so small fee.
c. Build molecular computers with DNA.
d. Fold their genomic map.
Which of the following organizations leads the molecular modeling software industry?
a. Accelrys Inc.
b. The Nanocomputer Dream Team
c. QuanteQ, LLC
d. National Model Railroad Association
Argonide Nanometals produces Nanoceramtm, alumina fibers with a diameter of...
a. 0.2 nanometers
b. 2 nanometers
c. 20 nanometers
d. 200 nanometers
IBM stands for...
a. Institute for Biotechnology and Microelectronics
b. Information Basics and Memory
c. Industry Beuro Management
d. International Business Machines
