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Lloyd’s Report: Water scarcity a threat to business

Impact: Water Shortage    April 29, 2010
“Catastrophic global water shortage is a greater global risk than soaring food prices and exhaustion of energy reserves during the 21st century.” This is not the voice of left or right (political) activism. This is not the agenda of this or that research group. This is the voice of sober (British) business thinking, emanating from [...]
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“Mix and match” nanocomposite manufacturing

News: Nanotechnology    March 20, 2010
Sometimes the decisive step in the development of a technology is the transition from the lab to manufacturing. If it’s a good or great idea it usually means there will need to be a lot of it. Take nanomaterials, for example. Nanorods and nanocrystals are often combined with other materials to achieve some useful property. [...]
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High volume production for graphene

News: Nanotechnology    March 11, 2010
Graphene is – potentially – the new wonder-nanotech-material for the semiconductor industry (that’s the ‘chip’ business for computers and everything else digital). In the form of a pure carbon sheet with many interesting electrical properties, graphene is an upgrade for the old reliable silicon. [SciTechStory: Big news for nanoscale graphene] However, despite the many research [...]
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‘Natural’ self-assembly of nanoparticles

News: Nanotechnology    November 3, 2009
Somewhere along the line nanotechnologists have got it into their heads that nanoparticles ought to do self-assembly. Oh wait. They may have met a biologist. Living things do self assembly all the time, and much of it takes place at the molecular nanoscale. So why not nanotechnology? (Uh, life took millions of years to achieve [...]
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