{"id":4068,"date":"2013-03-21T14:18:05","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2013-03-21T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:18:05","slug":"can-nanotechnology-be-used-in-civil-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/?p=4068","title":{"rendered":"Can nanotechnology be used in civil engineering?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>@Eng_93b: @KnowNano hi, can we use nanotechnology in civil engineering? .. I mean construction engineering&#160;?<\/p>\n<p>It may seem strange to think something as small as nanotechnology could be a part of something as relatively big as civil engineering but there is actually a huge overlap. And the biggest area for overlap is materials science.<\/p>\n<p>As one article puts it (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aggregateresearch.com\/article.aspx?ID=6279&amp;archive=1\">http:\/\/www.aggregateresearch.com\/article.aspx?ID=6279&amp;archive=1<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nanotechnology&#8217;s miniature answers to developing world&#8217;s biggest problems Construction: including nano-molecular structures to make asphalt and concrete more resistant to water; materials to block ultraviolet and infrared radiation; materials for cheaper and durable housing, surfaces, coatings, glues, concrete, and heat and light exclusion; and self-cleaning for windows, mirrors and toilets&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And the intersections between civil engineering and nanotechnology aren&#8217;t limited to that. People are coming up with all sorts of new ideas to utilize nanotechnology in every field all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Eng_93b: @KnowNano hi, can we use nanotechnology in civil engineering? .. I mean construction engineering&#160;? It may seem strange to think something as small as nanotechnology could be a part of something as relatively big as civil engineering but there is actually a huge overlap. And the biggest area for overlap is materials science. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2917,1691,2253,108,329,333,2916],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-civil-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-materials","tag-nano","tag-nanotech","tag-nanotechnology","tag-nanotechnology-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmblr.kamilah.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}