It is not all Hot Air
Well over the flu, wonder if any nano scientists are working on a cure for it.
What they have been doing is putty tiny crystals inside containers to increase the amount of gas they hold. Because the crystals have such a large surface area with nano size pores, the gas sticks better really. Actually its absorbed. And its all down to those guys who used to give us tape cassettes. Actually they started off making dyes but hey BASF are right up there. Who would have thought it was worthwhile to try to put more gas into an already empty space by filling the thing up with something other than space or gas? ERM maybe the scuba divers will appreciate being able to stay down longer and I know quite a few around here who would love to get their hands on the new tanks once they come out.
On the medical front NEC announce they have developed a high speed protien analysis technology which is vital to the prompt diagnosis of diseases like cancer. The technology uses nanobiochips.
Here's what they do "
1) By carrying out separation of the isoelectric point and molecular weight (two inherent characteristics of protein) on a nanobiochip and mass spectrometer respectively, short-time analysis of approximately one hour is achieved. This improves the analysis speed by 20 times that of the conventional method (two-dimensional gel electrophoresis).
2) As a compact chip is used in place of large amounts of gel, the size of the sample amount required for analysis is cut to one twentieth that of the conventional method.
3) Comparison with the conventional method is easily enabled as a two-dimensional map can be acquired from the two axes, the isoelectric point and molecular weight. "
Now you know by know I can only explain so much mumbo jumbo science talk but if you don't understand this don't worry. Just be thankful.
Coupled with that discovery some Brits have been given a huge wad of cash to develop the ‘Snomipede’. Basically the ability to manufacture and see things as small as 13nm. This is good because just now it can't be done. Machines of this size could do anything from manufacturing very cheap circuits and chips to repairing human tissue damage
Graham Legget says " “This research grant will allow my team in Sheffield, together with teams at Glasgow, Nottingham and Manchester universities, to pioneer faster, smaller and more efficient methods of manipulating and building molecular structures.
“The development of Snomipede technology represents the coming together of nanotechnology, molecular and cell biology, microsystems engineering and synthetic and surface chemistry."
Now just to let you know I am letting the business, money, investment side of things go for a while as there are already lots of people doing it out there. I will update you from time to time but this blog is supposed to let you know what is happening, not what might happening or who is getting a job when you are sitting here reading. So onwards and upwards. Don't forget to email or post a comment if you want anything explained, covered, or disscussed.
Nanotime
What they have been doing is putty tiny crystals inside containers to increase the amount of gas they hold. Because the crystals have such a large surface area with nano size pores, the gas sticks better really. Actually its absorbed. And its all down to those guys who used to give us tape cassettes. Actually they started off making dyes but hey BASF are right up there. Who would have thought it was worthwhile to try to put more gas into an already empty space by filling the thing up with something other than space or gas? ERM maybe the scuba divers will appreciate being able to stay down longer and I know quite a few around here who would love to get their hands on the new tanks once they come out.
On the medical front NEC announce they have developed a high speed protien analysis technology which is vital to the prompt diagnosis of diseases like cancer. The technology uses nanobiochips.
Here's what they do "
1) By carrying out separation of the isoelectric point and molecular weight (two inherent characteristics of protein) on a nanobiochip and mass spectrometer respectively, short-time analysis of approximately one hour is achieved. This improves the analysis speed by 20 times that of the conventional method (two-dimensional gel electrophoresis).
2) As a compact chip is used in place of large amounts of gel, the size of the sample amount required for analysis is cut to one twentieth that of the conventional method.
3) Comparison with the conventional method is easily enabled as a two-dimensional map can be acquired from the two axes, the isoelectric point and molecular weight. "
Now you know by know I can only explain so much mumbo jumbo science talk but if you don't understand this don't worry. Just be thankful.
Coupled with that discovery some Brits have been given a huge wad of cash to develop the ‘Snomipede’. Basically the ability to manufacture and see things as small as 13nm. This is good because just now it can't be done. Machines of this size could do anything from manufacturing very cheap circuits and chips to repairing human tissue damage
Graham Legget says " “This research grant will allow my team in Sheffield, together with teams at Glasgow, Nottingham and Manchester universities, to pioneer faster, smaller and more efficient methods of manipulating and building molecular structures.
“The development of Snomipede technology represents the coming together of nanotechnology, molecular and cell biology, microsystems engineering and synthetic and surface chemistry."
Now just to let you know I am letting the business, money, investment side of things go for a while as there are already lots of people doing it out there. I will update you from time to time but this blog is supposed to let you know what is happening, not what might happening or who is getting a job when you are sitting here reading. So onwards and upwards. Don't forget to email or post a comment if you want anything explained, covered, or disscussed.
Nanotime
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