Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Introduction Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the world, causing around 13% of deaths in 2007. Whilst there have been considerable improvements in the way cancer is treated, there is no definitive cure. When cancers are detected at an early stage, current treatments can be very effective, and the survival rate from these cases is very encouraging. The ... Read More »

Nano-FTIR can be applied for the chemical identification of nanoscale sample contaminations. This figure shows AFM images of a PMMA film on a Si surface. While the AFM phase contrast indicates the presence of a 100 nm size contamination, the determination of its chemical identity remains elusive from these images. Using nano-FTIR to record a local infrared spectrum in the ... Read More »

  Xiaowei Liu examines cells to test whether DNA nanostructures could reside comfortably within the appropriate compartment of the cells and be stable for several hours – long enough to set in motion an immune cascade Scientists at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have turned to DNA nanotechnology to make an entirely new class of synthetic vaccines. In ... Read More »

By Will Soutter IntroductionMemory is crucial to all computing devices, both for long-term storage of data, and for short-term storage whilst information is being processed. Currently, different technologies are used for different types of memory, as the properties of each type of memory are quite restrictive. Current Memory Technologies SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) is mainly used in high performance ... Read More »

Peter Wicks Peter Wicks Ethical Technology Technoprogressives need to align themselves with environmentalists who respect human aspirations. On 18 October 2011 the environmental NGO Greenpeace issued a press release welcoming a decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), ruling that cells derived from human embryos could not be patented, on the grounds (according to Greenpeace’s press release) that patents ... Read More »

An artist’s representation of fullerene cage growth via carbon absorption from surrounding hot gases. Some of the cages contain lanthanum metal atoms. Image courtesy National Science Foundation After exploring for 25 years, scientists have solved the question of how the iconic family of caged-carbon molecules known as buckyballs form. The results from Florida State University and the National Science Foundation-supported ... Read More »