Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

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 »

Shrink Nanotechnologies Closes Transaction to Sell BlackBox Semiconductor Inc. and Its IP for Leading Semiconductor Technologies (Nanowerk News) Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. and BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. announced the execution of the share exchange whereby 100% of the equity interests of BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. (the Nevada company) were sold to BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc. (the publicly traded Delaware company). Additionally, a cash payment ... Read More »

ScienceDaily (June 3, 2011) — Three molecules thick, or two, or one: how does an extremely thin layer of trapped liquid behave when we make it even thinner? Measurements made using the Atomic Force Microscope show that the forces of friction increase with each step. Liquids begin to behave more like a gel. This is the conclusion presented by Sissi ... Read More »

University of Texas at San Antonio professors Anand Ramasubramanian and Jose Lopez-Ribot have developed a prototype nanochip that can be used to accelerate testing in drug delivery and diagnostics. The chip uses high-throughput screening technology that allows researchers to test hundreds of thousands of small molecules simultaneously for specific characteristics. Now that the prototype has been created, Ramasubramanian and Lopez-Ribot ... Read More »

Will the future bring us the teleportation devices of “Star Trek” or the sinister machines of “The Matrix”? Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku of the City College of New York says that many of the things that were once the domain of science fiction — cars that navigate rush-hour traffic on their own, wallpaper that can switch colors when you remodel, ... Read More »