Where do nanoparticles go?
Never before have scientists made such a proactive effort to study the safety of an emerging technology as they are currently doing with nanotechnology, says Dr Mark Wiesner from Duke University.
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World’s tiniest scales
Measuring the contents of a single cell: the nano-machinery of life Scientists are developing a tiny set of scales that will be capable of weighing each of the 100 million or so different proteins in a human cell.
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A million times faster
A radical new kind of computer memory will be a million times faster than existing hard-drives, a leading expert in the field of nanotechnology announced today in Sydney. It will use nanotechnology to manipulate data like cars on tiny racetracks.
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Scientists relax – Australia loves us
And Australians are feeling good about new technologies including nanotechnology. Most Australians (84%) feel positive that science and technology are improving society. These positive perceptions have been strongly held over the last five years.
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2009 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science
How astronomy freed the computer from its chains
Testing new technologies in the computer not the real world
Breaking the link between fat and diabetes
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Testing new technologies in the computer not the real world: 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
Amanda Barnard Every new technology brings opportunities and threats. Nanotechnology is no exception. It has the potential to create new materials that will dramatically improve drug delivery, medical diagnostics, clean and efficient energy, computing and more. But nanoparticles—materials made small, just a few millionths of a millimetre in size—could also have significant health and environmental…
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2005 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year
Cameron Kepert Cameron Kepert, a 34 year old professor at the University of Sydney’s School of Chemistry, is at the forefront of a chemical revolution. Chemists are mimicking nature and becoming molecular engineers, constructing new molecules and materials with great precision. Cameron has engineered materials that can grab a small target molecule and then signal…