Issues: Nanotechnology
Resources to help you understand the latest developments in nanotechnology, the changes they will work across the economy, and their potential benefits to humanity.
- Scientists claim that the world's first living robots can now reproduce. [web page]
- Unprecedented control over atomic bonding is now possible thanks to chemistry, accelerating the development of nanoelectromechanical systems. [web page]
- Supercharging computer chips from nanomaterials. [web page]
- Although the idea of changing things with the mind has long been a cliche, two recent research using metasurfaces have shown that it may really be feasible. [web page]
- New material is being developed by scientists that can absorb and release massive quantities of energy. [web page]
- The USA's National Nanotechnology Initiative helped make this new tech sector a big thing for the nation. [web site]
- MIT engineers have created a new ultrathin material that is as light as plastic but as strong as steel. [web page]
- Light that has been 'squeezed' might lead to advancements in nano scale electronics. [web page]
- Micro-sized organic robots are on the way. But is humanity ready? [web page]
- A short backgrounder to carbon nanotubes. [video]
- Nanoparticles used to zap drug-resistant fungal infections are small but mighty. [web page]
- A California startup is sending tiny robots on a spectacular journey through people's minds. [web page]
- Why we haven't noticed the nanotechnology revolution. [web page]
- New meta-materials will accelerate technology. [web page]
- Researchers have produced autonomous particles with protein motor patches that they hope can transport lifesaving medications through physiological fluids. [web page]
- What's the state of play with nanotech in 2022? [video]
- Why electric vehicle batteries have been waiting for graphene nanotechnology. [video]
- Practical applications of borophene creep closer with new hydrogen-bonding technique. [web page]
- Painting in light with nanopillars. [web page]
- This company wants to revitalise the field of molecular electronics. [web page]
- Nanotubes might cook up a new level of semiconductor chips. [web page]
- Microbe-based living ink might be used in a 3D printer to manufacture healing structures in space. [web page]
- The world's tiniest battery is created to power a computer the size of a grain of dust, which might be utilised to power miniaturised medical implants. [web page]
- Upgrade your bullet-proof armour with nano-engineering. [web page]
- Why can't A.I.s create new materials? Oh, they can. [web page]
- The world's tiniest gears are measured in nanometers and are used to power molecular machines. [web page]
- As part of the heated race to develop increasingly more sophisticated robots, scientists have developed bots so tiny that they can perch on a human hair and yet move autonomously using just the light from the sun. [web page]
- Organoids have mostly been utilised for research purposes up to this point, but researchers have begun transplanting them into animals in an effort to treat sickness. The next, although distant, species is the human. [web page]
- Controlling the manufacture of microscopic building components is a big step forward. [web page]
- New research is assisting in the face of nanotechnology's obstacles. [web page]
