Nanovip All things Nanotechnology – Nano Is The Futiure

Soon after the tech bubble burst in 2000, investors searched for a new industry that could replicate some of the massive gains seen by investors just a few years earlier. The major investment magazines helped to boost the hype into the stratosphere. The hot technology? Nanotechnology. The premise was simple. Scientists had found ways to develop ultra-tiny particles that could ... Read More »

Computer developers are obsessed with speed and power constantly seeking ways to promote faster processing and more main memory in a smaller area. IBM for instance came up with a new manufacturing process (called silicon-insulator) that has the effect of increasing a chip’s speed and reducing its power consumption. These chip’s released in 2001 are 30% faster. DSP chips: Processors ... Read More »

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new technology enabling tiny machines called micro electromechanical systems to “self-calibrate” could make possible super-accurate and precise sensors for crime-scene forensics, environmental testing and medical diagnostics. The innovation might enable researchers to create a “nose-on-a-chip” for tracking criminal suspects, sensors for identifying hazardous solid or gaseous substances, as well as a new class of laboratory ... Read More »

Scientists from the University of California have used nanotechnology to develop an artificial skin that could eventually give the sense of touch back to people who have lost their limbs. Dubbed the e-skin, it is built from tiny nanowires made out of artificial material and its creators say it mimics the sensitivity of human touch. Illustration of an artificial e-skin ... Read More »

Syracuse, NY — The state’s $28 million investment in a nanotechnology research and development center in Salina is evidence of a significant shift in job-creation strategy for Central and Upstate New York. The deal was announced Thursday by Assemblyman Al Stirpe, D-North Syracuse, and representatives of Centerstate CEO, Lockheed Martin and the College for Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY ... Read More »

A Toronto venture capital company has inked a deal with a state-owned Russian firm to create a fund that will invest in Canadian startups in the nanotechnology sector. VentureLink Funds, a long-time player in the labour-sponsored fund sector, will team up with Rusnano Corp., a huge entity created by the Russian government to boost that country’s nanotechnology sector. VentureLink managing ... Read More »

Carbon-based nanoscience and nanotechnology: where are we, where are we heading? ‘Without carbon, life cannot exist’, the saying goes, and not only life. For technological development, carbon was the ultimate material of the 19th century. It allowed the beginnings of the industrial revolution, enabling the rise of the steel and chemical industries, it made the railways run, and it played ... Read More »