Nanotech: Hot Technology Gets a Cool Down

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It’s the hottest technology – featherweight laptops that feature rapid response, crisp graphics and operate complex computer games; slim cell phones with Web-browsing capabilities, store high resolution photos and keep track of our lives; credit card-sized MP3 players that store thousands of songs and hours of videos.


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Big step in tiny technology

Aug 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers.

Northeastern University Physicists Develop Nano-Optical Lens

Aug 26, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using semiconductor nanotechnology, Srinivas Sridhar, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor and Chair of Physics at Northeastern University, and his team of researchers from the university’s Electronic Materials ...

Nano-sized 'trojan horse' to aid nutrition

Aug 25, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Researchers from Monash University have designed a nano-sized "trojan horse" particle to ensure healing antioxidants can be better absorbed by the human body.

Air-purifying church windows early nanotechnology

Aug 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered.

New 'nano-positioners' may have atomic-scale precision

Aug 20, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet
Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer ...