Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

If there’s one thing we hate more than a battery depleted sign, it’s our battery actually sinking into the depths of unknown and refusing to switch back on. It is usually combined with silent rage, abdominal shaking and swearing and then the thought of throwing it at the nearest person’s head. It usually happens in the most convenient of times ... Read More »

Call him Windsor’s Molecule Man. Recent arrival Jeremy Rawson is a molecule manipulator helping put Windsor on the nanotechnology map. The acclaimed chemistry professor moved in September to the University of Windsor from the University of Cambridge -where he worked molecular magic for 14 years, including leading a team developing non-metal magnets. University of Windsor professor Jeremy Rawson is photographed ... Read More »

With oil prices skyrocketing, transportation companies around the country are struggling to cope with higher fuel costs. But as the WXXI Innovation Trail’s Zack Seward reports, a Rochester company is using nanotechnology to help ease the pain. Cerion Energy makes a diesel additive that’s been shown to cut fuel costs by about 10 percent, while at the same time significantly ... Read More »

In the late 1990s, New York state began an aggressive strategy to attract semiconductor manufacturing and nanotechnology-related innovation. Here in the Mohawk Valley, EDGE led the charge with an aggressive marketing effort that was energized by Advanced Micro Devices’ 2006 decision to site a computer chip center in Malta. Since, EDGE has spanned the globe to promote the 300-acre greenfield ... Read More »

Guojun Liu has discovered a way to use nanotechnology to reduce friction in automobile engines and machines. “The technology should be useful in a wide range of machineries other than automobile engines,” says Dr. Liu, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and an expert in polymer synthesis. “If implemented industrially, this nanotechnology should help prolong machine life and improve ... Read More »

It is with great pleasure I can report that I read a really first-rate article on nanotechnology from the mainstream press. It comes from the Irish Times and is based around an interview with Prof Peter Dobson of Oxford University, who had been in Ireland in early February for the Nanoweek conference. I had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Dobson ... Read More »

PALO ALTO, CALIF. — Hewlett-Packard researchers have proposed a fundamental rethinking of the modern computer for the coming era of nanoelectronics — a marriage of memory and computing power that could drastically limit the energy used by computers. Today, the microprocessor is in the centre of the computing universe, and information is moved, at heavy energy cost, first to be ... Read More »