A Nanotechnology Award For NASA ... The picture above shows single-walled carbon nanotubes manufactured at NASA without using metal catalysts. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center) This method has been pioneered by now-retired NASA Goddard researcher Jeanette Benavides...
Black-eyed Peas And Nanotechnology ... Here is the introduction of the JIC news release. What have Black-eyed peas got to do with nanotechnology? As well as sharing their name with a chart-topping U. S...
Will Nanotechnology Help Treat Cancer? ... Many people think of nanotechnology -- the process of altering or building materials a molecule at a time -- as a way to build microscopic machines... If the different kinds of nanotechnology were in a race, biomedicine would be in the lead, said Shuming Nie, director of cancer nanotechnology at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute, Atlanta....
Nanotechnology Leads To Better Bone Implants ... The images above "show the titanium scaffolding with different pore sizes, plus bone tissue growth on the titanium scaffolding" (Credit: Z. Ryan Tian)...
Nanotechnology: Are 'Molecular Assemblers' Possible? ... Drexler predicted a long time ago that these "molecular assemblers" -- devices capable of positioning atoms and molecules for precisely defined reactions in almost any environment -- are not only possible, but will have a huge impact. They would be able to build anything with absolute precision and no pollution...
Nanotechnology: The Next Material World ... Clearly, John Teresko is on the opposite side and envisions a positive future for it. Ready for a big number? The National Science Foundation has predicted a $1 trillion market by 2015 for nano products....
When Energy Rhymes With Nanotechnology ... Let's start with the new battery nanotechnology from mPhase Technologies. The company is seeking to develop a battery containing millions of silicon nanotube electrodes, sitting upright like a bed of nails...
Nanotechnology For The Natural Gas Industry ... This research work has been led by Brian Towler, Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, with the help of Saeid Mokhatab. So what would be the benefits of using nanotechnologies during the exploration process? "Mokhatab and Towler point out that nanomaterials, such as nanotubes or engineered porous minerals, might be used in gas fields or other sources to improve the efficiency of extraction of a wide variety of hydrocarbon fuel compounds and chemical feedstocks."...
Nanotechnology To Protect From Earthquakes ... Let's start with the wireless sensors which were tested at WUSTL in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. This project was led by Shirley Dyke, professor of civil engineering and director of the WUSTL's Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Lab...
Trouble In Nanoland: The Truth About Nanotechnology ... Today, we'll feature two different stories published the same day, but on two different continents. Daniel Leff, a senior associate at Sevin Rosen Funds, is our first guide...
Nanotechnology Speeds Up Internet 100 Times ... Here is the beginning of this University of Toronto (U of T) news release. Professor Ted Sargent and colleagues advance the use of one laser beam to direct another with unprecedented control, a featured needed inside future fibre-optic networks....
Nanotechnology And Jewelry ... Please read the whole article for many more details about the birth of nanotechnology and let's jump to the section explaining why gold is so often used by nanotechnologists...
Nanotechnology On The Catwalk ... On the left you can see two pictures illustrating the arrival of nanotechnology into the fashion world...
Nanotechnology And Viruses Working Together? ... You can see above a picture of how the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) is used. "With the rod-like tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) as the template, 1D polyaniline/TMV composite nanofibers with narrow dispersity, high aspect ratio and high processibility can be readily prepared via a hierarchical assembly process...
Can Nanotechnology Be Good For Climate? ... The figure above is a summary of how nanotechnologies could be beneficial for our environment (Credit: Defra). This figure has been extracted from the report named "Environmentally Beneficial Nanotechnologies: Barriers and Opportunities" (PDF format, 95 pages, 747 KB)...
Modern Day Alternatives To Embryonic Stem Cell Replacement ... Although we are just discovering all that can be obtained by this cutting edge medicine, many people are already benefiting from these new options. "Stem Cells" are one of these new options that have been in the news headlines...
A Busy Week For Nanotechnology ... Please read all the articles or news releases mentioned above to find more information about these new discoveries. Here I just want to focus -- briefly -- on three of them...
Nanotechnology To Rescue Silicon ... This press release from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Self-Assembling Devices at the Nanoscale, says that "a new hybrid technique could lead to mass-produced chips with molecular-scale structure." Here are some details. [These scientists] have demonstrated a technique that could one day allow electronic devices to assemble themselves automatically -- giving semiconductor manufacturers a way to mass-produce "nanochips" that have circuit elements only a few molecules across, roughly ten times smaller than the features in current-generation chips."...
Nanotechnology Boosts Solar Cells Performance ... This research has been led by Munir Nayfeh, Professor of Physics at UIUC. Here is a photo of Nayfeh holding a silicon solar cell coated with a film of silicon nanoparticles (Credit: L...
New Nanotechnology Fabrication Techniques ... You can see on the left a schematic of the photolithography process used for this new scalable fabrication of nanowire devices. "(a) Gold pads and fiducial marks are deposited on the surface...