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Zero-gravity conditions can give new power to nanotechnology

Zero-gravity conditions can give new power to nanotechnology


One of the cases, where zero-gravity conditions can give a new effect is the scanning tunneling microscope. Scanning tunneling microscope is the key instrument when the atoms are researched, and there is one limit in that system. A scanning tunneling microscope(1) can observe atoms from only one side. But what if it can scan 3D-images? 


The idea of the 3D-scanning by using the scanning tunneling microscopes is that a molecule hovers in the vacuum what this system requires for working. And the microscope is moving around it by taking 3D images from nanotubes or more complicated structures like some proteins.


The thing is that the scanning tunneling microscope can see many things, but what if it could move its stylus around the molecule that hovers freely on air? The reason why this kind of research requires zero-gravity conditions is that the magnetic field can affect the form of the molecule. 


So maybe in the future, we would send the remote-controlled about grape-fruit size satellite laboratories to the orbiter, where the scanning tunneling microscope will observe the molecules by moving it's stylus around the object what hovers freely in the middle of the capsule. 


(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning_tunneling_microscope


Zero-gravity conditions minimize the effect of gravity and earth rotation in the extremely complicated atom- and molecular structure. 


When we are facing the zero-gravity conditions, we can figure some other cases than growing perfect crystals, where that kind of condition can help science and technology. The thing is that the zero-gravity condition could make the revolution for the nanotechnology. Because in the zero-gravity condition minimizes the disturbing of the platforms, where the atoms and molecules put together. 


The zero-gravity condition makes it possible to connect atoms and molecules without the need to touch any layer. So maybe the nanotechnology of tomorrow is created in the small satellites, what is operated remote-controlled from the Earth. The remote-controlled satellite-laboratories can shot to orbiter by using small rockets, and they can return to the ground where the products salvaged. 

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