Electronic skin could enable ‘smart’ prosthetics

The concept of electronic skin might sound far-fetched, but it's closer to becoming a reality with a wide range of potential uses. So-called smart gloves, for example, could allow medical students to practice virtual surgery that felt like the real thing. Flexible material embedded with circuitry could also be fitted around internal organs to enable doctors…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 23, 20121Comment

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Scientists find way to tame tiny particles out of sewage

How can you tame the growing number of ultra-tiny particles that are going into consumer products and, eventually, back into the environment? How about using an ultra-tiny form of behaviour modification? Every day, more and more products appear on shop shelves that are made with nanomaterials, ultra-tiny particles less than 1/1000th the width of a human…

ByThe Global ViewDecember 17, 20090Comments

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Butterfly wings could inspire more powerful solar cells

Ultra-tiny structures that mimic the structure of butterfly wings could hold the secret to more powerful solar cells, according to researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. The researchers have developed a technique that recreates biological structures on a nano scale (one nanometre is equal to 0.000000001 metre). In nature,…

ByThe Global ViewOctober 9, 20090Comments

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Ultra-light nano-threads could replace copper wiring

Super-thin and long carbon "nanothreads" could one day replace heavy and costly metal wiring in mobile phones, aircraft and other technologies, according to researchers from the University of Cincinnati. Using existing technology for creating long nanotubes of carbon, engineers Vesselin Shanov and Mark Schulz have developed a way to spin those tubes into long threads that…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 16, 20090Comments

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Firm promotes nanotech coatings for energy efficiency

Florida-based Industrial Nanotech Inc. is launching a nationwide campaign to encourage US governors to consider its insulating coating products as a way to boost energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. Industrial Nanotech produces a line of Nansulate(R) products that use nanotechnology to create water-based, low-VOC specialty coatings that can be applied to surfaces like paint. The…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 9, 20090Comments

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Coffee-stain technology promises better TVs, LCDs

Nifty: the bane of caffeine-craving bookworms everywhere -- those round, brown and ugly coffee stains -- could actually prove the inspiration for cutting-edge television screen technology. New Scientist reports this week that Ivan Vakarelski, an engineer in Singapore, envisions the mechanism that creates coffee stains as a way to more easily and cost-effectively create transparent, conductive…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 2, 20090Comments

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Signs of the energy apocalypse: hamster power

Is it a technological breakthrough or a sign of the energy apocalypse, in which we turn to increasingly desperate means of generating power to keep civilisation afloat? We're inclined to say the latter upon hearing the news that researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have generated energy by attaching a nanogenerator to a ...…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 16, 20090Comments

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New nanocar runs cool

Researchers at Rice University have developed a new type of nanocar that moves at room temperature -- a first for the molecule-sized "vehicles" that previous needed to be heated to 200 degrees Celsius in order to run. The super-tiny cars have a paddlewheel motor powered by light energy. First developed in the laboratory of James Tour in…

ByThe Global ViewFebruary 2, 20090Comments

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Scientists crack room temperature fuel cell

Greenbang has written several times before of being a great fan of scientists. If you leave them alone long enough, they work out how to do things quicker, better, cheaper or sooner. Which is why, in an ideal world, they would be Greenbang's butler - they'd be great at making exquisitely engineered sandwiches and get…

ByThe Global ViewMarch 25, 20081Comment

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Electronic skin could enable ‘smart’ prosthetics

Scientists find way to tame tiny particles out of sewage

Butterfly wings could inspire more powerful solar cells

Ultra-light nano-threads could replace copper wiring

Firm promotes nanotech coatings for energy efficiency

Coffee-stain technology promises better TVs, LCDs

Signs of the energy apocalypse: hamster power

New nanocar runs cool

Scientists crack room temperature fuel cell

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