The Houston Technology Center recently celebrated its 10th year anniversary, and during the said event, honored 6 people who have made great contributions to the field of nanotechnology. James Tour was one of the awardees. Tour is a laboratory professor in Rice University; he teaches chemistry, computer science, materials science, and mechanical engineering. He is also holder of over 40 patents and a consistently active nanotechnology innovator. In fact, he is most famous for his invention of the so-called nanoribbons.
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The Arkansas Democrat-Gazett recently published a story about another breakthrough in the field of cancer research. Scientists from the University of Arkansas (both from the Medical Sciences and the Nanotechnology Center of the said university) are currently working on nanoparticles that have the potential of making cancer curable.
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Two Energy Frontier Research Centers, each with a 5-year grant from the US Department of Energy, will be established at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. One of the centers, to be headed by Victor Klimov, will focus on the applications of nanotechnology in energy research. Specifically, Klimov’s team will concentrate on the use of nanoscale materials to efficiently capture and harness solar energy in the production of electricity.
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Nanotechnology has once again proved useful. This time, Harvard Science reports that researchers from the Rowland Institute of Harvard have been able to develop and manufacture microscopic robots that can carry (or rather push) chemicals and other loads that are heavier than themselves through liquids or solutions; water, medicine, drugs, blood, and other types of liquids and solutions easily come to mind. Thus, the development of this nanoscale robots have implications in the field of biological research and medicine, especially microsurgery, among others.
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Nanotechnology has continually helped the progress of different industries. The health care industry, for instance, is the primary recipient of the benefits of nanotechnology because researchers already have the ability to control biological structures that are now within a very small size scale. It also helps maintain the national security through the invention of potent biodetection and improved computer security systems.
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