Category Archives: Nano

Tiny Ideas Coming of Age

By Ian | October 24, 2004

From The New York Times (registration required; or use bugmenot.com) talks about NanoTech and that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has announced a new registration category just for nanotechnology inventions (Class 977).
Also this definition of things Nano-tech : Information technology was about recording and analyzing the physical world, but nanotechnology is about changing [...]

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Nanograss

By Ian | October 14, 2004

Via ComputerWorld Grazing the Nanograss : a bed of upright silicon posts a thousand times thinner than a human hair. Apllications inculde: Improved Battaries; Heat sinks for computer processors and other devices; Liquid lenses; Liquid photonics.
“Nanograss is an important technology because it combines a materials breakthrough with electronic properties that enhance the material and [...]

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Myths and realities of nano futures

By Ian | July 29, 2004

Via Howard Lovy’s excellent NanoBot comes a link to BBC : Myths and realities of nano futures which set a more measured tone about where the use of these technologies and techniques are today without some of the typical cheerleading of either the magic “fantastic voyage” type or the fear mongering gray (or green or [...]