10 most shared Nanotechnology contents in social networks in 2014

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 :

1. 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.

4.  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