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Copper Nanoparticles

1)What they are used for?
-Efficient catalyst.
-Conductive paste (electrical purposes).
-Sintering additive (example: reduce the temperature in the production of ceramic and diamond tools)
-medicinal and antibacterial purposes.
-lubricant additive (the copper nanoparticles mixed with lubricant decrease the friction surface and repair microdefects in the friction surface).

2)What importance they have in your career?
-The copper nanoparticles are important in the biochemistry because they have medical and antibacterial purposes (the copper nanoparticles don't harm the human body and show antibacterial and antifungal activity).

3)Why you chose them?
-Because in Chile, the copper is one of the most abundant resource, so, I think that the more uses we found with copper, the more benefits Chile will get.

4)What future use they may have?
In my point of view I see an only future to the copper nanoparticles, and this will be the Medicinal, antibacterial and antifungal treatments in the human body.

5)When you learned about them?
-When I was 17 years old, I read an article in internet that show me how the Chilean copper could be more useful if we sell it in nanoparticles instead of copper sheets, because we obtain a short amount of money.

6)What impact they may have in human welfare?
-the copper nanoparticles will do a lot of more benefits in the human welfare (examples in the answer 1) but we must do more research about this nanoparticle and the secrets that hide.

7)What advantages/disadvantages they may have?
-Advantages: The raw material is very common and cheap(In Chile), has various purposes.
-Disadvantages: It doesn't have the recognition that deserve