Nano Materials (eBook)

in Architecture, Interior Architecture and Design

Sylvia Leydecker (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2008
192 Seiten
Birkhäuser (Verlag)
978-3-7643-8321-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this book, architects, interior designers and designers will find an introduction to the functions and use of nano materials, specifically tailored to their needs and illustrated by numerous international project examples.

Dipl.-Ing. interior designer BDIA Sylvia Leydecker is a practicing interior designer with her own firm in Cologne, 100% Interior.

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Dipl.-Ing. interior designer BDIA Sylvia Leydecker is a practicing interior designer with her own firm in Cologne, 100% Interior.

Dipl.-Ing. Innenarchitektin BDIA Sylvia Leydecker ist praktizierende Innenarchitektin mit dem eigenen Büro „100% interior" in Köln.

Inhalt

Contents

Foreword by Harry Kroto

Foreword by Michael Veith

What is nanotechnology?

The development of nanotechnology

Carbon – new morphologies

General market developments

Nanoproducts

Form Follows Function?

Ecology and economics

Is the devil in the dwarfs?

Nanotechnology and product design

Functions and applications

Self-cleaning: Lotus-Effect®

Ara Pacis Museum, Rome

Commercial building, Pula

Private residence, Aggstall

Strucksbarg housing, Hamburg

Self-cleaning: Photocatalysis

Muhammad Ali Center MAC, Louisville, Kentucky

Hyatt Regency Osaka Garden Chapel, Osaka

Narita International Airport of Tokyo, Chiba

AKT – Am Kaiser’s Turm, Heilbronn

east Hotel, Hamburg

G-Flat, Tokyo

Private residence, Osaka

Private residence, Hyogo

House in Creek, Hiroshima

Disabled-access sheltered housing for elderly people, Frick

MSV Arena soccer stadium, Duisburg

Children’s playground, Kagawa

Easy-to-clean (ETC)

Science to Business Center Nanotronics & Bio, Marl

Kaldewei Kompetenz-Center, Ahlen

Private residence, Erlenbach

Modern Classicism, Shanghai

Urban lounge / Light bubbles, St. Gallen

Air-purifying

Atelier and villa for a calligrapher, Ymanashi

Paving for Leien Boulevard, Antwerp

Jubilee Church, Rome

Anti-fogging

Fragrance capsules

Thermal insulation: Vacuum insulation panels (VIPs)

Sonnenschiff centre, Freiburg

Seitzstraße residential and commercial building, Munich

Thermal insulation: Aerogel

County Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

School extension, London

Sports hall, Carquefou

Factory, Zaisertshofen

Temperature regulation: Latent heat storage, phase change materials (PCMs)

"Sur Falveng" sheltered housing for elderly people, Domat/Ems

UV protection

Solar protection

Fire-proof

Deutsche Post headquarters, Bonn

Waverley Gate, Edinburgh

Anti-graffiti

New Centre Ulm

Hofjäger Palais, Berlin

Anti-reflective

Antibacterial

Housing estate, Duisburg

Operating theatre, Goslar

Operating theatre, Berlin

Patients’ hospital room prototype, Berlin

Anti-fingerprint

Scratchproof and abrasion-resistant

Holistic application of nano surfaces

Acknowledgements

People

Trade fairs, conferences and events

Sources and further information

Illustration credits

Textauszug

FUTURE Minute particles with a vast market potential. (S. 31-32)

According to several surveys, the predicted market development in the field of nanotechnology is enormous. Nanotechnology is a growth market with a huge potential. Business enterprises, banks and business consultancies outstrip one another in their estimation of the market potential of nanotechnology. Politicians are equally active and numerous governments are funding nanotechnology initiatives.

The primary motivations are economic growth, better international competitiveness resulting from innovation and technological advantages, the creation and securing of jobs and the principle of tackling environmental problems through appropriate technology. Strategy plans are drawn up, such as the German government`s "Nano-Initiative - Action Plan 2010", and exchanges between science, business and politics are intensified to help translate scientific know-how into marketable products. On the international arena, the USA, Japan and Germany form a triumvirate of nanotechnological development and currently lead the field. China, South Korea and Russia are rapidly catching up and other nations such as India are currently mobilising. In Asia, Japan heads the field with Germany clearly occupying first place in Europe.

In the European context, the EU has provided almost 3.5 billion Euro through its "Cooperation" programme for nanotechnology, nanosciences, materials and new production techniques as part of the 7th EU Research Framework Programme (2007-2013). In Germany, the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) has funded research in the field of nanotechnology since the late 1980s (146.5 million Euro in 2007) and since 1997 provides special funding for nano-enterprises.

In January 2000, the US government under President Clinton founded the "National Nanotechnology Initiative", which since then has been responsible for the sizeable financial funding of research and development activities. In December 2003, President George Bush signed the "21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act" in the Oval Office, providing a further 3.7 billion US dollars of research and development funding between 2005 and 2008. According to the New York business consultancy Lux Research, a total of 12.4 billion US dollars were invested worldwide in research and development in the field in 2006, with nanotechnology-based products already being responsible for a turnover in excess of 50 billion US dollars.

Governments supported nanotechnology to the tune of 6.4 billion US dollars in 2006,10% more than in 2005. The USA provides the most funding, followed by Japan and Germany. If one takes into account the comparative international purchasing power parity (PPP) in this context, then China also counts among the leading nations. On a critical note, very little of the respective countries` funding budgets are used to investigate the potential risks of nanotechnology. In 2006, the industry invested 5.3 billion US dollars worldwide in research and development (19% more than in 2005) with China expanding its investments significantly (68% more than in 2005).

Patent applications in the field rose by 30% totalling more than 10,000 submissions. Of these, 6801 were registered in the USA, with Germany following in second place with 773 applications. Just as it is difficult to comprehend the minute scale of the nanometre, so are the near-utopian figures quoted for the future by the world of finance. As small as "nano" may be, the market estimation for the field seems inversely proportionate. Lux Research estimates the global market volume for nano-based products in 2010 at 500 billion US dollars, with a projected 2.6 trillion US dollars in 2014. In short, in the time span between 2010 and 2015, nano-based products will have become commonplace and have achieved major market penetration.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2008
• Co-Autor: Marius Kölbel, Sascha Peters
• Vorwort: Harold Kroto, Michael Veith
• Zusatzinfo: 43 b/w and 276 col. ill.
• Verlagsort: Basel/Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: High-Tech Materials • Materials • Smart Materials
• ISBN-10: 3-7643-8321-6 / 3764383216
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-8321-3 / 9783764383213