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Nanotechnologys Impact on Functional Foods, Dietary Supplements

Posted by VikrantP 9 days ago (http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com)
Category: Companies, Markets, Products Tags: nanofood nutraceuticals food supplements nutrition

The nutraceutical and functional food/beverage industries have maintained a steady buzz around the concept of nanotechnology, but mostly on an introductory level. However, looking forward, the impact of nanotechnology on such products will manifest in four principal ways: enhanced packaging; improv ... read more

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Nanotechnology: Safe and Green Cuisine

Posted by cntlab 20 days ago (http://www.businessweek.com)
Category: NanoRisks, Toxicology Tags: food safety

Food created with nanotechnology is healthful for humans and environmentally friendly. Pro or con? Two opposing views discussed in the 'debate room' at Business Week. ... read more

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Garbage + Nanotechnology + Gasification = Ethanol

Posted by part12 18 days ago (http://www.ens-newswire.com)
Category: Cleantech & Greentech Tags: biofuel ethanol

A method of making potentially cheap ethanol fuel out of garbage and other waste materials by deploying a combination of modern and old technologies is under development by government and university researchers.

The process involves the use of nanotechnology and gasification to convert carbon-ba ... read more

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Handle With Care

Posted by ahmso3001 27 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Society, Ethics, Government, Regulations Tags: ethics society

Last year, a private company proposed “fertilizing” parts of the ocean with iron, in hopes of encouraging carbon-absorbing blooms of plankton. Meanwhile, researchers elsewhere are talking about injecting chemicals into the atmosphere, launching sun-reflecting mirrors into stationary orbit above the ... read more

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Next Big Future: Finally Diamond Mechanosynthesis Viability Experiments funded for $3.1 million

Posted by nextbigfuture 27 days ago (http://nextbigfuture.com)
Category: Molecular Manufacturing Tags: mechanosynthesis nanotechnology molecular funding

Experiments to validate the theoretical work of Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle have been funded in the UK for $3.1 million. These experiments could finally prove and legitimize critical aspects of molecular nanotechnology. Success will mean a funding wave to bring about molecular nanotechnology. ... read more

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Tiny Quantum Dots Shed New Light on Nutrient Flow

Posted by VikrantP 32 days ago (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
Category: Instruments, Techniques, Analysis Tags: quantum dots sensors

Exactly how do nutrients such as nitrogen move through the environment? That's a key question in ecology and environmental science. The answer may be clearer thanks to a new technique that uses the light from tiny quantum dots to trace the movement of such nutrients. The technique offers a way for ... read more

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NASA - Autonomous NanoTechnology Swarm

Posted by junji 32 days ago (http://ants.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Category: Videos, Images, Art, Cool Stuff

The Autonomic NanoTechnology Swarm (ANTS) is a generic mission architecture consisting of miniaturized, autonomous, self-similar, reconfigurable, addressable components forming structures. The components/structures have wide spatial distribution and multi-level organization. This ‘swarm’ behavior i ... read more

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Compressing Light

Posted by pushla 33 days ago (http://www.technologyreview.com)
Category: General Research, Papers, Labs, Researchers Tags: optical communications computer chips

A new way to compress light, designed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, could make optical communications on computer chips more practical. The researchers developed computer simulations that suggest that it is possible to confine infrared light to a space 10 nanometers wide ... read more

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