A simple tap from your finger may be enough to charge your portable device thanks to a discovery made at the RMIT University at Melbourne (Australia) and the Australian National University (ANU).

The pictured Nano Hummingbird spy drone might be just what the U.S. Department of Defense needs to deflect enemy attentions while it’s quietly swooping about snapping invaluable intelligence footage from afar.

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The pictured Nano Hummingbird spy drone might be just what the U.S. Department of Defense needs to deflect enemy attentions while it’s quietly swooping about snapping invaluable intelligence footage from afar.

Developed by the tech researchers at AeroVironment Unmanned Aircraft Systems under contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the highly manoeuvrable drone boasts authentic flapping wings, the ability to hover, clockwise and anticlockwise rotation, and can be controlled remotely by a human pilot.

Capable of withstanding side-wind gusts of up to five miles per hour and remaining airborne for eight minutes per flight, the little camera-equipped Hummingbird can sustain a speed of 11 miles per hour and is unlikely to attract unwanted attention thanks to a lifelike wingspan of just 6.5 inches.

This is an important issue for the future of the nanocomputers and other nanotechnologies. What will happen with all the nanoparticules which will become one day useless for the human activity?  What kind of  know-how do we really need to manage the new substances now found in everything from our clothes to cosmetics and electronics? Are nanoparticles harmful to the environment – or are these invisible particles safer than we think?

These are just some of the questions to which SINTEF researcher and environmental chemist Andy Booth wants to find the answers. He has in fact initiated a new nanotechnology knowledge transfer network called SafeNano Norway, linked to Health, Safety and Environmental  (acronym: HSE) issues. “Traditionally, there has never been any close collaboration between the fields of HSE and nanotechnology, but we are now seeing a clear need for this”, says Booth, who usually works as a researcher into the influence of nanoparticles on the marine environment. Booth hopes that this work will also enhance the general public’s confidence in practical nanoproducts.

Contacts: Andy Booth  andy.booth@sintef.no

Last month in Zurich (Switzerland) the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center opened at IBM Research.  ETH Zurich, a European science and engineering university, and IBM have collaborated for 10 years on nanoscience. Now, the Center will allow scientists from IBM and the university to research novel nanoscale structures and devices to advance energy and information technologies.

The Center is named for Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer, two IBM scientists and Nobel Laureates (1986) who invented the scanning tunneling microscope at the Zurich Research Lab in 1981, thus enabling researchers to see atoms on a surface for the first time. Their work on microscopy tools has allowed researchers to visualize the nanoscale.

Experts in Nanotechnoly come from different disciplines, including engineering, physics, materials science and chemistry, so a valuable  postgraduate programme in nanotechnology must accommodate students from a wide range of backgrounds. Although progress in the subject is often technology-led, experts in nano-technology always need a detailed knowledge of the underpinning science, and postgraduate nanotechnology masters courses are a well-recognised means of gaining experience in state-of-the-art techniques and achievements.

Most postgraduate nanotechnology masters degrees lead to the award of an MSc and comprise a taught component corresponding to 120 credits (60 ECTS) as in Great Britain or France and a summer research project which provides the remaining 60 credits (30 ECTS).

See in the pages of Nanocomputer.com the list of universities which provide courses in nanotechnology (you can enrich the list with new informations): http://www.nanocomputer.com/?page_id=201

Research results concluded that the prevalence of foreign-born authors in nanotechnology publications exceeded that of the general population and the U.S. scientific community. Besides the U.S. (47 scientists), significant contributions came from China (21 scientists), India (eight scientists), and Germany (five scientists), and foreign-born contributions have steadily increased from 38 percent in 1999 to 73 percent in 2009.

Hao Yan, Harvard/Mitre research team, who produced the first nanoprocessor

These findings point to the significance of non-native researchers in promoting U.S. nanotechnology innovation and indicate significant globalization within the American scientific and engineering communities. Study made at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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A research team  at the University of California in  San Diego have developed a new method of disguising nanoparticles as red blood cells, which  enable them to evade the body’s immune system and deliver cancer-fighting drugs straight to a tumor.

The size of  nanoparticles are less than 100 nanometers , the same size as a virus. Red blood cells live in the body for up to 180 days and, as such, are “nature’s long-circulation delivery vehicle,” said Zhang’s student Che-Ming Hu, a UCSD Ph.D. candidate in bioengineering, and author on the paper.

Stealth nanoparticles are already used successfully in clinical cancer treatment to deliver chemotherapy drugs. In Zhang’s study, nanoparticles coated in the membranes of red blood cells circulated in the bodies of laboratory  mice for two days.

Russia, South Korea and Singapore signed a cooperation deal on developing nanotechnology.

A  M.O.U. (memorandum of understanding) has been signed  through the Asia Nanotechnology Fund, which was set up last September by the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnology (RUSNANO), the Singaporean Economic Development Board (EDB) and Singapore-based investment group 360ip.

The nanotechnology cooperation fund, to be based in South Korea as a limited partnership, is expected to start with a capitalization of 100 million U.S. dollars.

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“The fund is a mechanism for finding promising technologies in Russia and Asia alike,” RUSNANO CEO and chairman Anatoly Chubais said. “This strategic partnership will help us promote Russian high-tech products in international markets.”

Source: Xinhua

This is not the good question. The right one is to  know how powerful will be a nanocomputer. As the nanoprocessor inside the nanocomputer will be at molecular scale, that means any artefact or object could embedded several nanocomputers.

The power of the next generation of computers will be unlimited, inimaginable for the common sens. Perhaps the size of a smartphone  would be suitable, because we can put it on our pocket and go mobile.

June 17th, 2011. Nanosized diamonds enable progress in retinal prostheses. Research groups in several countries are making progress in retinal prosthesis development. If they achieve their aims, patients who have go blind, due to loss of their photoreceptors, could recover a better simplified form of vision than with available prostheses. One of the groups shows that diamonds could lead the way.

A research laboratory of  the University of Illinois at Chicago (June 11th, 2011 ) has produced fuel cells that use hydrogen or methane to generate electricity in chemical reactions. Harmless byproducts like water are dream products for engineers, environmentalists and business leaders. All are  searching for clean, alternative ways to power the future electric car.

• Nanotechnology is the understanding and control of matter at the nanoscale, at dimensions between approximately 1 and 100 nanometers, where unique phenomena enable novel applications.
• Encompassing nanoscale science, engineering, and technology, nanotechnology involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at this length scale.So how small is “nano”? A nanometer is one billionth of a meter. A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. And there are 25,400,000 nanometers in one inch.
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University of Technology, Sydney June 6th, 2011 In summary: – UTS forensic science researcher Dr Xanthe Spindler has achieved a world first with the preliminary development of a novel immunogenic method that could recover usable fingerprints from old evidence and difficult surfaces – It is also a step in pursuit of the “Holy Grail” of a reliable method for recovering fingerprints from human skin.

Dr Brennan, the famous character starring in the TV Show BONES has now  a new toy to handle the most difficult forensic cases.

Research creates nanoparticles perfectly formed to tackle cancer
University of Hull June 6th, 2011 Researchers from the University of Hull have discovered a way to load up nanoparticles with large numbers of light-sensitive molecules to create a more effective form of photodynamic therapy (PDT) for treating cancer.

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FIELDS

Nanotechnologies 

Weblinks various webpages of nanotechnology non profit groups, futurist groups, news services, nanotechnology and space, and personal nanotech websites.

Companies a list of companies doing nanoscale work.

Medical papers, books and articles on biotech applications using nanotechnologies.

Academic labs at universities working on nanoscience.

Tools Software, lab equipment and nanotechnology related tools.

Government links to government nanotechnology research.

Books

Magazines

Videos Dvd’s and VHS.

Steaming Videos download online.

Related Technologies

Cryonics Links, papers on cryonic suspension, medicine, information and companies that are providing cryonic suspension services.

Artificial Intelligence links the quest for machine intelligence: newsgroups, organizations and publications.

Life Extension links to organizations, books, forums and information on extending the aging process.

Researchers sometimes wonder which scholarly journal is better for publishing new papers or even finding new discoveries therein. Here is a list of top ten journals in the fields of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.