In March 2010, researchers from Rice University in Houston traveled to Guanajuato, Mexico, to conduct field tests on a new nanotechnology for removing arsenic from drinking water. The system uses nanoscale magnetite, or nanorust.
This invention could give new meaning to the term “bad breath!” It’s the Single Breath Disease Diagnostics Breathalyzer, and when you blow into it, you get tested for a biomarker—a sign of disease. For as amazing as that sounds, the process is actually very simple thanks to ceramics nanotechnology.
President Barack Obama visited Northwestern University on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 to deliver a message on the economy. During his talk, he lauded the International Institute for Nanotechnology for being an economic driver - translating new technologies into startups, products, and jobs for Americans.
This video shows how self-assembled porous materials can lead to fuel tanks that are able to highly concentrate gaseous fuels and thus hold a lot of energy in a small space.
Where and what is nano? How will it shape our future? Nanoscience is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale, where properties differ significantly from those at a larger scale. The strange world of nanoscience - it can take you into atoms and beyond the stars.
It won Best Short Film at the Scinema Science film festival 2010. Courtesy of Cambridge University.
Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water.
Researchers at Rice University and Penn State University have discovered that adding a dash of boron to carbon while creating nanotubes turns them into solid, spongy, reusable blocks that have an astounding ability to absorb oil spilled in water.