In case you want to know what were the most
stimulating contents on Nanotechnology in 2014 here is a list of the top
10 shared contents across social networks including Facebook, Linkedin ,
Twitter, Pinterest and Google Plus :
- Nanotechnology To Outer
Space: Ten Top Tech Innovations Of 2014: this article was by far the most shared article
across social platforms mentioning
nanotechnology in 2014. it describes what was considered as top
tech-innovation last year including some nanotechnology applications such
as use of DNA nanobots that allow for a targeted
treatment of cells in Medicine and the insertion of nanotubes
into the tiny chloroplasts that make plants' energy which opens up
unimaginable novel ways to hybridize hardware and wetware and use plants
as platform for technology.(total shares > 18225)
2. Tiny Batteries Could Revolutionize Green Energy : Tiny is big business when it comes to
batteries. Using nanotechnology techniques a team of researchers from Maryland
University developed a nanosize batteries “nanopore” that are 80,000 times thinner than a human hair which
could have a pervasive impact in a myriad of industries such as renewable
energy storage, electric vehicles, biofuels,etc.
3. Google[x]
Reveals Nano Pill To Seek Out Cancerous Cells : a google research team in
the field of life sciences developed tiny nanoparticles coated “magnetized”
with antibodies that once
injected into the human body could help detecting cell cancers much earlier
than has been possible before.
- Will nanotechnology soon allow you to 'swallow the doctor'? : Progress made in nanotechnology so made it possible the creation of nanobots (very tiny robots) that could enter the human body and be steered through magnets to the desired location to target diseases.
Nanobots (source: nature.com)
5.
Pouring
Saltwater Over Graphene Generates Electricity : Graphene is a thin layer of pure carbon (one
million times thinner than paper) so thin that it is actually considered two
dimensional. It is tightly packed layer of carbon atoms that are bonded
together in a hexagonal honeycomb lattice.
Graphene has many astonishing properties.
It is about 100 times stronger than steel, conducts heat and electricity with
great efficiency and is nearly transparent. A team of Chinese scientists
created electricity simply by dragging a droplet of saltwater across a layer of
graphene. They created energy with one of the most plentiful substances on
Earth carbon, water and salt.
Figure 2 Graphine is an atomic-scale honeycomb lattice made of carbon atoms.
Figure 3 Stretchable graphene electrode patterns
transferred onto a silicon based
polymer
6.
Can
DNA Nanobots Successfully Treat Cancer Patients? First Human Trial Soon : Bachelet
a leading figure in the field of DNA nanotechnology said that DNA nanobots will
be tried in leukemia patient. DNA nanobots are designed to destroy leukemia
cells while preserving healthy tissue.
7.
Nanotech
Converts Conventional LCDs into Glasses-Free 3-D Displays | MIT Technology
Review: Leia is a company that took
advantage of an invention by Fattal to control the paths of light at the nanoscale
to offer an interactive holographic experience at your fingertips. The company
developed a technique to display holograms out of a conventional liquid crystal
display (LCD).
8 Romans
Used Nanotechnology – 1600 Year Old Lycurgus Cup Proves It: The Lycurgus
Cup, depicting a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, is a 1,600-year-old
jade green Roman chalice that changes color depending on the direction of the
light upon it. The mystery was solved in 1990, when researchers in England
scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and found out that the glass
was impregnated with particles of silver and gold as small as 50 nanometres in diameter. The
work was so precise that it couldn’t be the result of an accident.
9. Nanotechnology
offers disturbing parallels to GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) : First
the author of the article defines nanotechnology calling it “the art
and science of building stuff that does stuff at the nanometer scale” and
explains how laws of physics and chemistry
at the nanoscale differs from the ones seen at the conventional size
(opaque materials become transparent, stable or solid ones might become
explosive or liquid etc.). Then, he gave examples of applications of
nanotechnology in a wide range of industries particularly in the agro-food
sector. Last, he warns against the lack of science-based evidences on the impact
of a such non properly supervised applications on consumers health and the environment and invites researchers and government
regulators to bridge the widening gap in this matter.
10. Penta-graphene,
a new structural variant of carbon, discovered : researchers from at
Virginia Commonwealth University and universities in China and Japan have
discovered a new form of new structural ariant of Graphene (a thin layer of pure carbon see paragraph 5
above) called "penta-graphene". It has sevral interesting
new propreties, for example penta-graphene is a semiconductor, while
graphene is a conductor of electricity
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