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Georgia Tech students may learn in virtual classrooms, with avatars of themselves “sitting” in the class. Students and professors will work to solve the world’s problems using new areas of study. The institute will expand globally, while also taking on a larger role in Atlanta. These are just a few aspects of the strategic vision Georgia Tech President G.P. “Bud” ... Read More »

City based pharmaceutical major Shasun Pharmaceuticals Ltd has entered into a joint venture with U.S. based Nanoparticle Biochem Inc to explore opportunities in the field of Nanotechnology. As per the joint venture the company will invest close to $2-3 million over the next 18 months period, a top company official said. “This is the company’s first offshore tie-up, which paves ... Read More »

THE oil industry, operating on a gigantic scale, might seem at first sight to have little to learn from the intricacies of medical diagnosis and therapies. Yet nanotechnology developed for medical applications could form a model for ways of exploiting oil reserves that conventional methods cannot reach. Oilfields deemed exhausted when all the free-flowing oil has been extracted still harbour ... Read More »

Chemotherapy, while considered an effective cancer treatment, also brings debilitating side effects such as nausea, liver toxicity and a battered immune system. Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therapy to cancer patients has been developed by researches at Tel Aviv University. The breakthrough technology consists of a nano-sized vehicle with the ability to deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into ... Read More »

NanoEngineers at the University of California, San Diego are designing new types of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that could be used in a variety of NASA space exploration projects – and in a wide range of transportation and consumer applications. NEI Corporation and UC San Diego recently won a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer contract from NASA to develop and ... Read More »

Nanotechnologies in Food Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry | 2010 | PDF | 300 pages | ISBN: 0854041699 | 12.5Mb This book provides a source of much needed and up-to-date information on the products and applications of nanotechnology for the food sector – for scientists, regulators, and consumers alike. It also gives an independent, balanced, and impartial view of the ... Read More »

THAILAND – The National Nanotechnology Centre (Nanotec) yesterday unveiled its latest invention, a nanofibre net that can kill malariacarrying mosquitoes within six minutes of their contact with it. Nanotec director Sirireuk Songsiriwilai said the net fibre was coated with a herbal-like synthetic substance – whose durability to stick on the net was enhanced by nanotechnology. This made its mosquito killing ... Read More »