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- Nanotechnology
- The science of developing materials at the atomic and molecular level in order to imbue them with special electrical and chemical properties. Nanotechnology, which deals with devices typically less...
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- Nanoscale microscope on a chip
- New Scientist recently reported that a UK company is developing a microscope on a chip four times more powerful than the best scanning electron microscopes SEMs available today. The best SEMs have a resolution of 0.05 nanometer. This new one, which will be small enough to fit onto a fingertip,...
- Tags: Microscope, Electron, Scientist, Chip, Scanning Electron Microscope, NFAB, Microscope Body, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
- Nanoparticles used to trap oil drops
- Rice University researchers have found a new way to spontaneously assemble nanoparticles into bag-like sacs. Their 'nanobatons' could be used to clean up oil spills by trapping oil droplets in polluted waters. These nanoparticles could even be more useful for delivering drugs. The researchers found that 'ultraviolet light and magnetic...
- Tags: Rice University, Nanotube, Researcher, Nanoparticle, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-31
- Nanorobots to improve health care
- Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...
- Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- A new career: isotope designer
- According to a Michigan State University MSU news release, 'Made-to-order isotopes hold promise on science's frontier,' nuclear physicists can now start a new career as isotope designers. These scientists can build specific rare isotopes to solve scientific problems and open doors to new technologies. The lead researcher says this approach...
- Tags: Michigan State University, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Professional Development, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Career, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-10
- Don't insulate, Nansulate, says Florida cleantech company
- Thermal testing. Courtesy Industrial Nanotech. Energy costs are now serious business for industries, office managers, and home owners across the world. Buildings account for over half of the energy use in the U.S. and a fair portion of that is for heating and...
- Tags: Insulation, Clean Technology, European Union, Nansulate, Energy Cost, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Green concerns about things in a nano-tech package
- The green profile of nanotech is being called into question by Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition SVTC, which is recommending the development of new policies that account for the relatively unexplored of the materials within. The group outlines the nature of its concerns in a report called "Regulating...
- Tags: Electronics, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-04-06
- Invincible ignorance and the Pirates Bay
- Some people are truly exasperating in the depths to which they will go to justify what is clearly wrong. To add insult to injury, their activities undermines the cause of real reformers who might help build a copyright system less tilted against consumers which recognizes that intellectual property is different,...
- Tags: Sweden, Nanotechnology, Intellectual Property, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Research & Development, Business Operations, Hardware, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Arthur C. Clarke: All These Worlds Are Yours
- For every person, there are personalities who's influence and life's work that can shape one's imagination and destiny. For some people, they are world leaders, musicians, poets, and philosophers. For me, the Grand Masters of Science Fiction float to the very top of that august group – and...
- Tags: Work, Computer, Productivity, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-19
- News to know: EC vs. Microsoft; Google Sites; Evernote's incredible search; iPhone roadmap
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: EU slaps Microsoft with $1.35 billion fine Mary Jo Foley: European Commission vs. Microsoft: Who is being unreasonable? Dennis Howlett: Steelie Neelie slaps Microsoft with record fine John Carroll: Microsoft vs. the EC, round 236 ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Nanotechnology, Hacking, Software As A Service (SaaS), Security, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for carsI don't get it[i]The most interesting part of the story is that the existing gas stations would not need to be modified to distribute hydrogen.[/i]I thought H2 is in gas form at normal temperature and pressure.How can they use an existing fuel pump to pump H2...
- Tags: Liquid Nitrogen, hydrogen tank, nanotechnology, Combustion, hydrogen, O2 Plc.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars
- According to EE Times, a California-based company called QuantumSphere has developed nanoparticles that could make hydrogen cheaper than gasoline. The company says its reactive catalytic nanoparticle coatings can boost the efficiency of electrolysis the technique that generates hydrogen from water to 85% today, exceeding the Department of Energy's goal for...
- Tags: Fuel Cell, Electrode, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Nanotechnology, Hydrogen, QuantumSphere, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?
- Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?Re: Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?Sounds interesting to me. In the present form, it would be good for bacteria/viruses injested orally, but I could see it in other applications, such as a face mask for physicians/other health workers for respiratory infections. For example, it could be used during the flu...
- Tags: Semiconductors, SECURITY, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Images: The Morph concept phone
- Nokia Research Center is collaborating with University of Cambridge on development of nanotech concept handset that can stretch and bend. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Phone, Nokia Research Center, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Hardware, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-02-25
- Technology for "stretchable" cellphones now on exhibit
- At the On the website of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Nokia is displaying Morph, a nanotechnology based mobile phone concept that could lead to stretchable and flexible cell phones oh, say, seven years from now. Morph is being shown as part of...
- Tags: Phone, Nokia Corp., Cell Phone, Nanotechnology, Cellular Phones, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- Nanotechnology-based chicken feed?
- In order to keep healthy the 200 million chicken raised in South Carolina -- and the humans who ate them -- Clemson University researchers are using nanoparticles. They call this intelligent chicken feed. They have built 'nanoparticles that mimic the host cell surface and lock to targeted pathogens. The particles...
- Tags: Clemson University, Professor, Patent, Nanoparticle, Tzeng, Nanotechnology, Healthcare, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-23
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabricsSelf cleaning clothes or anythingIf the researchers had a problem bonding the coating to organic protein based material then presumable it was easier to bond to non-organic surfaces like bare metal metal or paintwork. If that is the case then we could have self cleaning planes, cars or...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Self-cleaning, self-cleaning fabric, nanotechnology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- News to know: Office 14; Yahoo; Net neutrality; Android SDK
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Office 14 to add more online document sharing MSDN subscribers: Vista SP1 to hit by the end of this week Robin Harris: Protein nanotech in next gen storage Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: First Look at Firefox 3.0 Beta 3...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Mozilla Firefox, Comcast Corp., Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SDK, Net Neutrality, Microsoft Corp., EchoSign 3.0, Nanotechnology, Linux, Web Browsers, Federal Government, Middleware, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Government, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Protein nanotech in next gen storage
- The magnetic spots in disk storage are already smaller than semiconductor feature sizes, and patterned media and heat-assisted recording will allow 10 TB 2.5" disks in a few years. But then what? Optical protein-based recording could be the answer. Scientists at a Osaka University lab have demonstrated...
- Tags: Disk, Protein, Nanotechnology, Protein Storage, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- A pharmacy in a nanotechnology-based thin film
- MIT researchers have developed a new implantable device to improve our health. This nanoscale thin-film coating can deliver controlled drug doses to specific targets, acting as a 'micro pharmacy' inside our bodies. It could be used to deliver drugs for cancer, epilepsy, diabetes and other diseases. This film, which is...
- Tags: Film, Researcher, Substrate, Voltage, Drug, Nanotechnology, Real Estate, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-13
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...
- Tags: Silk, American Chemical Society, Fabric, Fiber, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Hardware, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
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