Defence Applications

Abstract

The potential opportunities promised by nanotechnology for enabling advances in defence technologies are staggering. Although these opportunities are likely to be realised over a few decades, many advantages are currently being secured, particularly for defence applications. This lecture will provide an insight into the capabilities offered by nanotechnology which will enable new defence capabilities, including; smart materials, harder/lighter platforms, new fuel sources and storage as well as novel medical applications. More specifically, the lecture will address the following topics: The vision and the challenges (overview); Novel material characteristics, properties and functionalities for enhanced capabilities (mass storage, nanomagnetics, quantum computing etc); Novel platforms (smart dust, self-assembly etc); Medical and biomedical advances (biomimetics etc)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA476710

Entities

People

  • Ayman El-fatatry

Organizations

  • Loughborough University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Composite Materials
  • Detection
  • Energetic Materials
  • Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Nanocomposites
  • Nanoenergetics
  • Nanotechnology
  • Prosthetics
  • Systems Engineering
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Quantum Computing