Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Brisbane, Australia-based nanotech specialist TenasiTech Pty Ltd has developed a nano-composite thermoplastic polyurethane system for use in seals which, it says, can increase the operating time of pumps and lower costs. In tests, the nano-composites showed improvements in mechanical strength, creep resistance, compressive set and barrier properties. Creep resistance improvements were up by 67%, and compression set gains up by ... Read More »

For the public, the jury is still out on nanotechnology – the media simultaneously extols its promise and warns of the potential calamity facing humanity. But what is it? How does it work? Is it dangerous? What we now call nanotechnology has the aim of designing, controlling and probing matter at the nanoscale. The “nano” bit refers, of course, to ... Read More »

Researchers at a Montreal university are using nanotechnology to combat cancer in the human body. This new method directly targets problem areas, potentially saving thousands of lives in the process. One of Canada’s leading engineering schools, Polytechnique Montreal, revealed the successful manipulation of a tiny remote-controlled magnetic sphere that could travel through the body and deposit cancer treatment directly on ... Read More »

A kaleidoscope of  textures and colors, NanoArt New York brings order and chaos, mountains and valleys, the heavens and hedgehogs, all invisible to the naked eye to life – in liquid, solid, luminescent, multi-colored atom arrangements and patterns. For a better understanding of the variety of the over 50 images on display at the German Center for Research and Innovation, ... Read More »

Focusing on interdisciplinary research is now leading to breakthroughs in bio nanotechnology research. A new method for drug development has become a reality. Four years ago, the biologist Karen Martinez almost didn’t believe in the research project herself when she started with her team working on it, but now it has been proven. Together with colleagues at the Nano-Science Center, ... Read More »

Researchers developed a new, low-cost technology that makes hydrogen fuel safer to store and use, inching clean fuel vehicles closer to reality. Coaxial electrospinning is a new technology developed by Cella Energy, a spin-off from Britain’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Also called electrospraying, the process absorbs and encapsulates hydrogen gas in a microscopic sponge formed by nano-fiber hydrides. The plastic beads ... Read More »

Brian L. Wardle, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics, department of electronics at MIT, says if aluminium is hit, it shows a dent, but when a composite is hit, it does not show any dent, though an internal damage may have occurred. Airplane manufacturers have started using composites of high-strength fibres, such as carbon or glass, integrated in a plastic ... Read More »