Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) will be partnering with the University of Alberta and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures organization on a $4 million CO2 capture project which will be supported by the Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation as part of an effort to find more cost-effective ways to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuels. The group of organizations is ... Read More »

The iPhone 4 contains a gyroscope – run by what seems to be an off-the-shelf chip. The iFixit crew and Chipworks used a scanning electron microscope to take a really close look at this amazing piece of nanotechnology. A mechanical gyroscope uses a spinning rotor in the centre to maintain a reference point in 3D space: if the frame is ... Read More »

Irregular pores, low flow rates: The plastic membrane filters used in sterile filtration do not always ensure that conditions are really sterile. Filter membranes of aluminum oxide are more reliable – the size of the nanopores can be determined with precision. Even the smallest viruses cannot pass through the membrane. The good ones are kept, the bad ones done away ... Read More »