Nano-materials are projected to be an extremely promising class of materials possessing properties that are new, cheap and easy to engineer for a variety of applications. One of potential applications is that of drug delivery. Nano materials like carbon nano-tubes and fullerenes have been effectively used to transport drugs to specific cells in the body [...]
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Nano-materials: Both sides of the picture
Posted in America, Society, Technology, medicine, nanotechnology, science, unites states on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Blog Action Day: On the Environment and Semiconductor industry
Posted in benign, blog action day, environment, nanotechnology, semiconductor on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Technology revolution has more or less evolved around Moore’s Law. Little does one know what it takes to process these fast ‘chips’. With the shrinking size of the transistor, process and devices dictate the use of more and more metals, chemicals and green house gases. The other worrying thing is that of the safety [...]