The Nanorobotics Research Group, a technology project involving collaboration across five departments at five universities, including the University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University, and...
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The Foresight Nanotech Institute is considering nominations for four nanotech-related prizes, as it does every year. The awards are for the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (one for...
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The new Springer-published journal, Nanoethics, is out, complete with a press release. The full name of the journal is "NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale"....
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Below is an interesting video, made by some digital video students, showcasing some of the features of the nanotech-enabled suit being developed at MIT that the Pentagon would like to see in action by...
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In the UK, the primary agency responsible for doling out grant money to nanotechnologists is the EPSRC, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Not wanting to fall behind in...
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In the world of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM), carbon nanotubes are considered the tips of choice. This is due to their tiny diameters, high aspect-ratio, and...
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Radioactivity can be used to break large chunks of matter down into nanoparticles in a process called radiolysis. The image at left shows tiny gold nanoparticles, only 30 nm in size, produced using...
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Is there anything carbon nanotubes can't do? Scientists recently described a way to make large quantities of florescent carbon nanotubes. The image at left shows a vial of nanotubes exposed to an...
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A fascinating nano/bio project currently underway is the Programmable Artificial Cell Evolution project, or PACE, funded by the European Union's Future Emerging Technologies program. PACE...
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Russia is desperate to catch up with the United States in nanotech. To hurry this along, the government is spending billions of dollars, taking up the research risk where private business isn't...
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One of the biggest roadblocks to making nanotubes that can be integrated into electronics is their disorganized, asymmetric nature when synthesized with conventional methods. Putting them in order...
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A long-standing controversy in the world of nanotechnology is whether or not molecular manufacturing - the highly parallelized use of nanoscale robotic arms to manufacture human-scale products - is...
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