Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Courtesy of Charles Lieber A new device, small enough to be used for sensitive probing of the interior of cells, has been developed by Harvard chemists and engineers. Pictured is the delivery of a two-terminal nanoscale electronic sensor into single cells. Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have fashioned nanowires into a new type of V-shaped transistor small enough to ... Read More »

Aug 12, 2010 (The Hartford Courant – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — The tiny crevices of butterfly wings are the ideal design for nanotechnology that could make subway stations safer, according to scientists at Fairfield-based General Electric Co. Three years ago, GE scientists learned that scales on butterflies wings have little nooks aligned in a manner that is perfect ... Read More »

When someone says “nanotechnology” to me, I get very Star Trekkie. My ears begin to taper elvishly. My eyebrows arch inquisitively. I embrace a peculiar affection for sticking my head into an upturned bowl. I develop a fondness for soaring arias and cavorting with semi-clad women of an arable hue. But I have been corrupted by an unnatural relationship with ... Read More »

AUSTIN, Texas—Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Chemistry Professor Xiaoyang Zhu. Photo by Marsha Miller. Zhu and his colleagues report their results in this week’s Science. ... Read More »

Nanostart ups stake in nanofiber reinforced polymer composites specialist BioMers. When it comes to state of the art technology and bio-tech developments, one can look no further than nanotechnology and its increasing uses in the medical world. A company focused on this very niche area of the bio-tech sector is Nanostart AG (FSE: NNS), a German based company that undertake ... Read More »

CHENNAI: The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has agreed in principle to set up a nano foundry in collaboration with the University of Madras National Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NCNN). According to W Selvamurthy, chief controller, research and development (life sciences), DRDO, the foundry would help convert knowledge into products. “We don’t want work on nanotechnology to be ... Read More »

Low-cost nanopatterning method utilizes popular shrinkable plastic. One programmable soft lithography recipe: (1) Start with a thermoplastic substrate. (2) Perform SANE. (3) Heat substrate. (4) Create different nanopatterns with same feature sizes. (5) Repeat. EVANSTON, Ill. — The magical world of Shrinky Dinks — an arts and crafts material used by children since the 1970s — has taken up residence ... Read More »