Automation of Nanotech Manufacturing May Be Ahead
In an assist in the quest for ever smaller electronic devices, Duke University engineers have adapted a decades-old computer aided design and manufacturing
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Nanotechnology
The Risk Governance of Nanotechnology: Recommendations for Managing a Global Issue
Short Description: This document reports on the discussions undertaken at the Conference “The Risk Governance of Nanotechnology: Recommendations for Managing a Global Issue”
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Antique engines inspire nano chip
The blueprint for a tiny, ultra-robust mechanical computer has been outlined by US researchers. Source: BBC.
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Where do End-of-Life Nanomaterials Go?
All materials and products eventually come to the end of their useful life, and those made with nanotechnology are no different. This means
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The new new thing (synthetic biology)
It’s fairly clear that nanotechnology is no longer the new new thing. A recent story in Business Week – Nanotech Disappoints in Europe
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New Single-Molecule Detector
Using tiny silicon rings that trap and circulate light, researchers have made an ultrasensitive device that can detect single biomolecules. Unlike standard techniques
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What happens if all human experience can be stored on crystals?
UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is record
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Brain Boosters
Two days from now I’m planning to further tweak my mind by taking a brain-boost pill. Called Provigil, it differs from its predecessors
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Bright future for nanosized light source
A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum, has been invented by a team of researchers with
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New, invisible nano-fibers conduct electricity, repel dirt
Tiny plastic fibers could be the key to some diverse technologies in the future — including self-cleaning surfaces, transparent electronics, and biomedical tools
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