Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

The Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network (NanoKTN) is pleased to announce that one of its members, NanoSight, has recently secured its 250th sale and has reached profitability for the first time since the company was established in 2005. NanoSight has developed a technique to view nanoparticles down to the size of several millionths of a millimetre opening up possibilities such as ... Read More »

3D Nanostructure for Cathodes in Batteries Could Mean Cell Phones that Charge in Seconds No sooner do I discuss University of Illinois researchers who have created 3D antennas for mobile phones using nanotechnology than another group of researchers at the University of Illinois (this time at Urbana-Champaign) have developed 3D material for batteries that combines the qualities of supercapacitors with those ... Read More »

The Crossroads Cultural Center-Houston and the University of St. Thomas will present “Science as an Adventure: A Conversation with Dr. Mauro Ferrari” on Tuesday, April 5. Ferrari, president and CEO, and Ernest Cockrell Jr., Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute, will talk about the development of ideas, the sacrifice of hard work, the willingness to take risks ... Read More »