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by george elvin on January 31, 2006
Are you ready for the US's largest nanotechnology conference? It's coming up, May 7-11, 2006, at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston. It's the Nano Science and...
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Fingerprints, Super Glue and tortellini may sound like an odd mix of characters, especially for a report published in The Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Chemical Communications. But they each...
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"For most physicists, the idea of materials held together by light is still foreign," says Colin Bain of Durham University. But materials held together by light are exactly what Bain and...
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A decade-old nanotech mystery has been solved by a Princeton research team, and their surprising conclusions may lead to new methods for the guided self-assembly of nanoparticles. For more than ten...
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Never-before-seen, three-dimensional nanoscale structures are coming out of a lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, thanks to an international research team's discovery that materials known...
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Scientists at Virginia Tech have taken a big stride toward self-assembly in nanomaterials by creating nonwoven fibrous mats from a small organic molecule in a single step. The result is a new...
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A new report on the current state of nanotechnology funding and development finds a big gap between the commercial impact of nanotechnologies and the $18 billion in funding nanotech has received...
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by george elvin on January 24, 2006
London will be host to a conference entitled, "Better Humans? The implications of human enhancement," on February 8, 2006. According to the conference announcement: "From memory pills...
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Filed in archive Biotech
by george elvin on January 24, 2006
From the world of biotechnology comes word that scientists at the UK"s leading plant science centre have uncovered a gene that could help to develop new varieties of crops that will be able to...
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Carbon nanotubes used in the electronics for such devices as cell phones might have a longer life thanks to a strengthening technique pioneered by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National...
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"Science should not be hampered by moral considerations." - James Wyngaarden, former director of the National Institutes of Health "Those working in any field are least likely to think...
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Filed in archive Biotech
by george elvin on January 19, 2006
Scientists are increasingly using living things as the building blocks for new materials. I've described several of theses lately (here and New York Times article this week. The article explains...
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Filed in archive Research
by george elvin on January 18, 2006
Asked which technology they believe will have the greatest impact on their everyday life ten years from now, respondents to a recent poll ranked nanotechnology number two. No surprise that genetic...
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by george elvin on January 17, 2006
Most of the press releases announcing laboratory-based breakthroughs in nanotechnology are peppered with " could haves " or " may one day lead tos " . That doesn' t undermine...
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Filed in archive by george elvin on January 16, 2006
While DNA may be the building block of life, it' s also becoming the building block of choice for nanoscientists who are redesigning it to perform a variety of tasks in everything from medicine...
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A new report from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars says more aggressive oversight and new resources are needed to manage the potential...
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Filed in archive Design
by george elvin on January 11, 2006
What will buildings be like when carbon nanotubes make structural materials transparent and capable of conducting electricity? How much energy will they use when their facades are made of flexible...
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Some organizations advocate for nanotechnology, others oppose it, and some try to straddle the fence. The Nanoethics Group is one such organization that studies the ethical and societal implications...
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by george elvin on January 09, 2006
Nanotechnology conferences usually come with a price tag of between $500 and $2000 for registration, not to mention travel and lodging. Now Purdue University has put together an all-day conference...
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by george elvin on January 06, 2006
Nanotechnology is making possible a convergence between the living world of cells and the electrical and mechanical world of machines. In the strange world of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)...
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SF Gate, the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle, recently asked its readers, " Should the state plow billions into the nanotechnology vision? " Here are the results: -- Yes. The...
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"More than a new wave of technology, nanotechnology is a technological tsunami, unseen until it is upon us." That' s the ominous message delivered by Canadian biotechnology advisor Pat...
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Here, to start the new year in a thoughtful mood, are a few ehtical questions regarding nanotechnology from Mike Treder at the Responsible Nanotechnology blog. Let us enter the new year hopeful,...
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