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Gaming the Future: The Book!

New Journal of Nanobiotechnology

The fast ramp-up of work in nanobio has led to the formation of another journal: the new Journal of Nanobiotechnology: “Potential topics include molecular bioprobes, nanoparticles and nanobiosystems, nanobiomaterials, biomolecular assemblies and supra-biomolecules, nanobiosensors and nanobiochips, BioNEMS and nano-biofluidics, nanobiophotonics, single-molecule detection and manipulation and molecular motors.” Says Editor-in-Chief Tuan Vo-Dinh of Oak Ridge National… Continue reading New Journal of Nanobiotechnology

Bell Labs president projects long-term nanotech

From JoongAng Daily in Korea: “In the next five to 10 years, mobile phone users will be able to detect changes in the facial expressions and even in the smell of the person they are talking to, according to Jeong Kim, president of Bell Labs, the research arm of the U.S. firm Lucent Technololgies. “As… Continue reading Bell Labs president projects long-term nanotech

Nanotech: US ambition, UK pessimism

Richard Jones asks: “Why does the molecular manufacturing community seem to have many fewer members in the UK than it does in the USA? I don’t think it’s fair to say that the dramatic vision of molecular manufacturing is pursued in a contextual vacuum – I think there is quite a well-developed world view that… Continue reading Nanotech: US ambition, UK pessimism

Free public database on nanoparticle safety

Tired of garbled news articles on nanoparticle safety? I certainly am. Now, the International Council on Nanotechnology (which I serve as an Advisor) has published the first public database of peer-reviewed journal articles examining environmental, health, and safety issues arising from both engineered and incidental nanoparticles (press release in PDF). You can help improve it… Continue reading Free public database on nanoparticle safety

European view of nanotech in 20 years

See the report by Ottilia Saxl, founder and CEO of the Institute of Nanotechnology, UK, for the European Commission Expert Group on Key Technologies for Europe. Titled Nanotechnology – a Key Technology for the Future of Europe (PDF), it includes on pages 26-28 a scenario of the role of nanotech in 2025. The technology will… Continue reading European view of nanotech in 20 years

Fun nano video from Germany

On Athenaweb (free registration req’d), a new site brought to you by the European Commission, is a five-minute video called The Principle of Nanotechnology with enjoyable nano graphics, worth viewing. That the audio is in German is not a problem, since those of us who are language-challenged can simply enjoy the video portion. If you’re… Continue reading Fun nano video from Germany

Nanoexplosions-on-a-chip

From the ever-diligent Charles Q. Choi, on work by physicist Shubhra Gangopadhyay at the University of Missouri at Columbia: “The researchers [have] coated devices made of glass with a mixture of nanoparticle fuel such as aluminum and oxidizer such as iron oxide. The nanoparticle quality of the fuel and oxidizer provides far greater surface area… Continue reading Nanoexplosions-on-a-chip

Harder than diamond: Aggregated diamond nanorods

From PhysicsWeb: “Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures. The new form of carbon, which is known as aggregated diamond nanorods, is expected to have many industrial applications (App. Phys.… Continue reading Harder than diamond: Aggregated diamond nanorods

We'll watch nanotech experiments as they happen

Chemist Derek Lowe describes some amazing-sounding work at Caltech: “They’re taking electron microscope snapshots, one trillionth of a second at a time. And what is this technique good for? Well, electron microscopy has long been used for imaging all sorts of materials and biological samples. Fast freezing of the samples has revealed an extraordinary amount… Continue reading We'll watch nanotech experiments as they happen

Step toward building nanomachine-based 'materials that today just sound like science fiction'

To tell what’s really going on, read the abstract, but here’s the BBC version: Professor David Leigh, of the University of Edinburgh, said the demonstration was one of the first examples to show molecular machines integrating successfully with the macroscopic world… The tiny machines that coat the surface are essentially rod-like structures with rings that,… Continue reading Step toward building nanomachine-based 'materials that today just sound like science fiction'

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