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Nanotechnology factory animated movie

The first animation showing exactly how a nanofactory might work, Productive nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts is now available for free viewing.

December 29, 2006 Read more

Futurist predictions mixed on nanotechnology

The World Future Society has released a list of its top ten technology forecasts for the next 25 years.

December 29, 2006 Read more

Nanotubes in the environment

New research underscores that anthropogenic nanomaterials can readily interact with natural materials.

December 28, 2006 Read more

Safety experts ill-equipped to handle nanotechnology in workplace

A strategic plan and more resources for risk research are needed now in order to ensure safe nano-workplaces today and in the future.

December 28, 2006 Read more

Nanotechnology and intellectual property issues

Nanotechnology applications are expanding the limits of science and medicine, they are stretching the boundaries of intellectual property law. As with other waves of innovation, nanotechnology will catalyze change in social, scientific, and legal arenas.

December 26, 2006 Read more

Nanotechnology for Life Sciences

Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences is the first comprehensive source covering the convergence of materials and life sciences on the nanoscale.

December 22, 2006 Read more

New research could lead to 'invisible' electronics

By combining organic and inorganic materials researchers have produced transparent, high-performance transistors that can be assembled inexpensively on both glass and plastics.

December 22, 2006 Read more

'Vortex lattices' may help explain material defects

Physicists at JILA have developed a method of visualizing defects, or disruptions, in rotating patterns.

December 22, 2006 Read more

Laser-based method cleans up grubby nanotubes

A simple method of cleaning nanotubes by zapping them with carefully calibrated laser pulses.

December 22, 2006 Read more

A no-go decision for carbon nanotubes in the DOE Hydrogen Program

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program has decided to discontinue future applied research and development investment in pure, undoped single walled carbon nanotubes for vehicular hydrogen storage applications.

December 21, 2006 Read more

Nanotechnology: elements of a medical surveillance program

Guidance expected to be issued soon by NIOSH will recommend that all nanotechnology workplaces implement an occupational health surveillance program.

December 21, 2006 Read more

Naturally glowing carbon nanotubes tracked in vivo

A new method to locate single-walled carbon nanotubes injected into the bloodstream with the fluorescence of CNTs.

December 20, 2006 Read more

American Public Health Association adopts policy on nanotechnology

APHA adopts a policy addressing the potential environmental and occupational health and safety risks of nanotechnology.

December 20, 2006 Read more

Improved understanding of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes

Researchers have discovered through computer simulations that the bending of carbon nanotubes occurs differently from that of their macroscopic counterparts in significant ways.

December 20, 2006 Read more

DNA logic circuits that work in test tubes

But a new breakthrough by researchers at the California Institute of Technology could result in future logic circuits that literally work in a test tube--or even in the human body.

December 20, 2006 Read more

World's strongest nanowires 'near perfect materials'

Scientists say they have made the world's strongest nanowire, reaching the theoretical limits of what they had designed.

December 19, 2006 Read more