Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Some people use a pen or pencil to write ads. Others use an electron microscope. To emphasize the precision of its blades, Gillette and French ad agency CLM BBDO, with help from scientists at the University of Nottingham who are not currently curing cancer, used nanotechnology to etch the world’s smallest ads on the whiskers of a man’s shaven beard. ... Read More »

It must be Nanotechnology Regulation week in Washington DC. Yesterday, two federal agencies and the White House released documents that grapple with the effective regulation of products that depend on engineered nanomaterials. In a joint memorandum, the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of the United States Trade Representative laid out ... Read More »

SHERMAN, TX – Austin College was recently awarded a fifty-thousand dollar grant for their science department and they’re using it to do some cutting edge research. “Nano technology has the possibility of revolutionizing who we are and what we do,” said Dr. Stephanie Gould, assistant chemistry professor. Gould was awarded a $50,000 grant from the American Chemical Society to research ... Read More »

The ability to image, measure, model, and manipulate matter on the nanoscale—on the order of a billionth of a meter—is leading to new materials, technologies, and applications across many fields including medicine, information technology, aerospace, energy, and transportation. Advances in nanotechnology are already driving economic growth and addressing a broad range of national challenges. The realization of nanotechnology’s full potential ... Read More »