Allaker Robert P, Ren Guogang
Oral Microbiology, Institute of Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, 4 Newark Street, London E1 2AT, UK.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2008 Jan;102(1):1-2. doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2007.07.003. Epub 2007 Aug 13.
Nanotechnology encompasses those technologies used to fabricate materials, including sphere, cubic and needle-like nanoscaled particles (approximately 5-100nm), and near-nanoscaled devices (up to micrometres). In comparison, mycoplasma are approximately 200nm in length, and a nanometre is 10(-9) of a metre. The field of nanotechnology is experiencing rapid growth, with many and diverse potential applications being explored in the biomedical field, including the control of infectious diseases. Nanotechnology not only has the potential to offer improvements to current approaches for immunisation, drug design and delivery, diagnostics and cross-infection control, but is also unexpectedly delivering many new tools and capabilities.
纳米技术涵盖了用于制造材料的技术,包括球形、立方体形和针状的纳米级颗粒(约5 - 100纳米)以及近纳米级器件(最大至微米级)。相比之下,支原体的长度约为200纳米,而1纳米是1米的10的负9次方。纳米技术领域正在迅速发展,生物医学领域正在探索许多不同的潜在应用,包括对传染病的控制。纳米技术不仅有可能改进当前的免疫、药物设计与递送、诊断和交叉感染控制方法,还意外地带来了许多新工具和能力。