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Category: Nanotechnology

Engineered bacteria provide new tool for nanotechnology protein design

Engineered bacteria that incorporate unnatural amino acids at multiple positions provide a new tool that may facilitate designing proteins to fold more predictably into molecular machinery components.

New electron diffraction method for nanotechnology determines nanostrucutres in days instead of years

Automated diffraction tomography provides rapid determination of structure of zeolite to atomic precision.

"Nano Techno" rap song lures kids to learn about nanotech

Over at Wired.com: A New York Hall of Science staffer has made a rap video to introduce kids (and probably quite a few adults) to the basics of nanotech.  The refrain will help them remember the definition of a nanometer, and the Foresight message comes through: “But with great power comes great responsibility!”  The subtitles… Continue reading "Nano Techno" rap song lures kids to learn about nanotech

Mechanical force splits molecule that cannot otherwise be split

Ultrasound was used to pull on polymer chains attached to opposite sides of a chemically almost inert molecular ring, splitting it into its two components.

Electric motor made from a single molecule (video)

Electrons from a scanning tunneling microscope cause a molecule of butyl methyl sulfide to rotate about a single sulfur atom attached to a copper surface.

Long nanowires with controlled orientation grown on sapphire

Growing semiconductor nanowires along crystallographic planes of sapphire provides well-structured nanowires with excellent optical and electronic properties.

First direct measurement of force generated by an individual synthetic molecular machine

News articles by Jon Cartwright on the Chemistry World news site and by Michael Berger at Nanowerk describe a significant molecular machine milestone achieved by the research groups of David A. Leigh (winner of the 2007 Foresight Institute Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for Theory) and Anne-Sophie Duwez. The research was reported in Nature Nanotechnology [abstract].… Continue reading First direct measurement of force generated by an individual synthetic molecular machine

Bio-Nanomachinery Dinner Lecture, Mountain View, CA, August 30

Have you seen those beautiful animations illustrating how the complex molecular machinery in a cell works? (Ex. http://youtu.be/sa563MdIiXE) Just how much of that is ‘made up’? How much is real? How is the information gathered, and what potentials can we unlock with it? Foresight is proud to announce its next dinner lecture: “Elucidating Bio-Nanomachines: Microscopies… Continue reading Bio-Nanomachinery Dinner Lecture, Mountain View, CA, August 30

Green Nanotechnology Roadmap Highlights Opportunities and Challenges

A green nanotechnology roadmap released by the American Chemical Society describes the opportunities and barriers to developing commercial applications of nanomaterials that present little threat of harm to health and the environment, and concludes with an action agenda to more forward.

Foresight@Google 25th Anniversary Reunion: Review and Closure

June 25-26, 2011 Mountain View, California https://foresight.org/reunion/ Thanks to all for a successful summer conference! We’re still hearing about some great connections and synergies made at the gathering that will help further transformative nanotech. With the addition of NASA-Ames Singularity University grad students, as well as 20Under20 Thiel Fellows, there was standing room only on… Continue reading Foresight@Google 25th Anniversary Reunion: Review and Closure

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