Nanotechnology in the Philippines

INTRODUCTION

Nanotechnology is the amalgamation, control, plan, and use of a practical framework or material
at the nanoscale. It draws on different teaches and has a wide assortment of uses from farming,
sanitation, biosensors to biomedical diagnostics. There is a need to update nearby IP laws to oblige
progresses in nanotechnology research. The World Health Organization all in all and the World
Intellectual Property Organization are making the initial step to reconsider the rules concerning items
created through nanotechnology.

BODY

The Philippines' Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has drawn a roadmap to shepherd
this post-industrial technology in the country. In 2008, an interdisciplinary group of 14 local scientists
convened to craft a nanotechnology roadmap for the Philippines. The group initially identified five key
sectors for application of nanotechnology, which coincided with priority areas of DOST for R&D support.
Nanotechnology has been identified as one of the priority areas of research identified by the
Department of Science and Technology. Flagship projects include chemical sensors and biosensors based
on nanostructured materials for agriculture and food, environment and health monitoring. PCASTRD has
proposed to include nanotechnology as part of all science and engineering degrees.

Nanotechnology involves engineering of functional systems at the atomic or molecular level. It can
create many new materials and devices with wide-ranging applications such as in medicine, energy,
agriculture, food production, space science, and electronics. There are currently a few Filipino experts
working on nanotechnology development who have successfully integrated it in biotechnology and
materials science.

Nanotechnology encompasses science, medicine, engineering, computing and robotics at this scale,
called the nanoscale. Nanotechnology offers the potential for new and faster kinds of computers, more
efficient power sources and lifesaving medical treatments. Potential disadvantages include economic
disruption and threats to security, privacy, health and the environment. Nanotechnology raises the
possibility of microscopicrecording devices, which would be virtually undetectable. It is possible that
nanotechnology could be weaponized. Some technologies and materials may become obsolete, leading
to companies specializing in those areas going out of business. Changes in manufacturing processes
brought about by nanotechnology may result in job losses.

CONCLUSION

This paper has attempted to demonstrate the significant influence that nanotechnology has on our
daily lives. In order to eventually fully harness the distinctive quantum and surface phenomena that
matter shows at the nanoscale, nanotechnology scales down existing industrial processes, materials, and
applications to the nanoscale. More than many previous discoveries, it is anticipated that
nanotechnology would dramatically alter health care and human life. However, they also have the
potential to result in important advantages including greater health, better resource management, and
decreased environmental pollution.

We as an IT student studying in college school in the Philippines, we need a high-tech equipment

enable us to finish our task easily. Calculator, Computer, Smart phones are the technology that we are
needed at this time of pandemic to make up the face-to-face meeting. We are highly support to this kind
of issue that matter to our future. At the end of this research, we conclude that we need to be
responsible in our own things that we have to avoid any complicated problem.

Member:
John Jose Bona lll
Cedrick Nocos

References: https://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=11226.php
https://www.nap.edu/read/11248/chapter/2#2
http://www.techmonitor.net/tm/images/d/d1/10jan_feb_sf3.pdf

https://www.dost.gov.ph/knowledge-resources/news/38-2009-news/366-dost-outlines nanotechnology-roadmap.html
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/advantages-disadvantages-nanotechnology-37398.html