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Tyler Castelli PAGE 3 Meloy 6:00 R15 University of Pittsburgh, Swanson School of Engineering 10/9/12 PAGE 1 THE APPLICATIONS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL ENGINEERING Tyler Castelli ( tyc6@) INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS NANOTECHNOLOGY AND WHY DOES IT MATTER? Nanotechnology is an extremely broad term, the definition of which varies from field to field. Most commonly, nanotechnology is defined as “…the understanding, control, and restructuring of matter on the order of nanometers (i.e., less than 100 nm) to create materials with fundamentally new properties and functions” [1]. There are two main