Application of Nanotechnology in Catalysis (2)

Impact of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology will make human development and use of technology after the material-led, energy-led and information-led, is happening in a new era of mutual integration of the three on the basis of biotechnology and mutual integration at the nano level as the dominant. 

Nanotechnology has not only broken the barriers between different disciplines, but more importantly, promoted the mutual integration between science and technology. The goal of science is to understand the world, while the goal of technology is to transform the world. The complete unification of science and technology is the inevitable result of the common development of science and technology to a certain stage. 

It is an inevitable requirement for the unification of objective and subjective needs of human existence, and also guides the direction of human society from the Kingdom of Necessity to the Kingdom of Freedom. Nanotechnology is widely used to monitor and improve the environmental pollution problem and adjust the control and production of industry to achieve the purpose of resource saving because it can significantly improve the utilization and storage capacity of energy. 

Control at the nanoscale also implies the design of precise simulations of properties, phenomena, and processes at scales that define physical, chemical, and biological properties. At the same time, nanoscale materials and small machines are capable of purifying air, water, etc. They can also replace humans for many tiny and delicate tasks, such as unblocking blood vessels and targeting drug administration. Therefore, nanotechnology has the potential to change human characteristics, which requires us to understand the development of nanotechnology while being aware of the great challenges we face.

1、Impact on social production methods

Nanotechnology, like other technological advances, is a double-edged sword in social application. Bill Joy, an American computer expert, pointed out: "Nanotechnology is highly likely to become a cancer that will engulf the entire universe, because we can hardly guarantee that one day the magical nano box will become Pandora's box and countless nano robots will use the human world as the raw material for their manufactured products." 

Nanotechnology can be said to be one of the results of the high development of science and technology, which has a huge role in promoting social progress and further improvement of social production methods. However, the misuse of nanotechnology is very likely to lead to the abnormal expansion of scientific and technological tools, leading to many social problems.

2、The impact on the development of social civilization

Nanotechnology singularizes human nature with infinite richness into natural atomic materiality, which on the one hand turns human's limited material needs into infinite material desires; on the other hand, it tears human nature with exquisite wholeness into pieces, and then carries out arbitrary decomposition and combination at the level of atoms or molecules, which inevitably causes the splitting or collapse of complete human nature. The negative impact of nanotechnology and other high technology on society cannot be solved by science itself alone, and "human beings should correct the value orientation and mission consciousness of high technology with the law of reason".

3、Conclusion

To sum up, catalytic science is the driving force of human progress and development. If human society wants to develop and progress in a long and stable way, we must make rational use of catalytic science and technology, apply scientific and technological development to the peaceful cause of human beings, and build a harmonious society and a harmonious world. Only in this way can we fully enjoy the gospel brought by the development of science and technology.