Exercise 7. Translate into English.

Exercise 4. Find the English equivalents.

Exercise 3. Match the highlighted words from the text with the meanings below.

Significance

profit

manufacture

plenty

intelligent

problem

advantage

Проблема, промежуточный, хранение, значение, избыток, борьба, нанотехнология, угол конвергенции, достоинство, увеличение, наночастицы, затраты, органы управления, питание, иметь дело, исключение, обследование, следить, выпускать.

Exercise 5.Ask 5 questions about the text.

Exercise 6.True or False?

1. Nanotechnology includes engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, materials science, military applications and communications.

2. Benefits of technology include improved manufacturing plant, soil purification systems.

3. Products made with nanotechnology require more labour, land, or maintenance, be highly productive, high in cost.

4. Products of nanotechnology have modest requirements for materials and energy.

5. Nano optimists see nanotechnology delivering benefits such as interactive ‘smart’ appliances.

6. Transitional effects such as displacement of traditional industries as the products of nanotechnology become dominant.

7. Potential risks of nanotechnology can broadly be grouped into five areas.

8. "Green goo" - the specific risks associated with the speculative vision of molecular nanotechnology.

1. Нанотехнология имеет большое значение в медицине, инженерии, биологии, коммуникации.

2. Продукты, сделанные при помощи нанотехнологии не требуют большего труда и больших затрат.

3. Негативное влияние наночастиц прослеживается перед тем, как они выпускаются.

4. Существуют потенциальные группы влияния нанотехнологии: проблема здоровья, проблема окружающей среды, общественные проблемы.

Text 2. What is Nanotechnology?

Exercise 8. Master the active vocabulary:

matter – материал, вещество

dimension — измерение, величина, объем

diverse — иной, отличный, разнообразный, разный

extension — распространение,предоставление

conventional — обусловленный, стандартный, условный

to approach — приближаться, подходить

assembly — общество. сбор

implications — смысл, значение

vast — обширный, громадный, огромный, значительный

to concern – касаться, иметь отношение

toxicity -токсичность

impact — влияние, воздействие

doomsday scenario — сценарий судного дня

to warrant — подтверждать, гарантировать

bond - связь, соединение

helix — спираль, винт

cellular — клеточный, сетчатый, секционный

genus – род. вид, род

to assemble — подбирать, собирать, монтировать

entities - сущность

to evolve — развивать, раскрывать

Exercise 9.Read and translate the text.

Nanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures of the size 100 nanometers or smaller in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices within that size. Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.

There has been much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology has the potential to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics and energy production. On the other hand, nanotechnology raises many of the same issues as with any introduction of new technology, including concerns about the toxicity and environmental impact of nanomaterials, and their potential effects on global economics, as well as speculation about various doomsday scenarios. These concerns have led to a debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special regulation of nanotechnology is warranted. A nanometer is one-billionth of a matter. A sheet of paper is about 100000 nanometers. By comparison, typical carbon-carbon bond lengths, or the spacing between these atoms in a molecule, are in the range 0.12–0.15 nm, and a DNA double-helix has a diameter around 2 nm. On the other hand, the smallest cellular life-forms, the bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma, are around 200 nm in length.

Two main approaches are used in nanotechnology. In the "bottom-up" approach, materials and devices are built from molecular components which assemble themselves chemically by principles of molecular recognition. In the "top-down" approach, nano-objects are constructed from larger entities without atomic-level control.

Areas of physics such as nanoelectronics, nanomechanics and nanophotonics have evolved during the last few decades to provide a basic scientific foundation of nanotechnology.