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Nano Newsletter
Latest Events
| Sun Sep 12 @08:00 - 05:00PM ANM 2010 |
| Mon Sep 13 @08:00 - 05:00PM NANO 2010 (International Conference on Nanostructured Materials X) |
| Sun Sep 19 @08:00 - 05:00PM IMC17 (17th International Microscopy Conference) |
| Sun Sep 19 @08:00 - 05:00PM ASON 1 (1st Adriatic School on Nanoscience) |
| Mon Sep 20 @08:00 - 05:00PM Bristol Nanoscience Symposium |
In this issue of NANO we turn to carbon nanotubes. From their discovery to the opportunity and potential they offer to the demand for new technologies, we explore a range of areas impacted by this miracle material.
Japan has long been recognised as a world leader and key player in global advances in science and technology and recent investment and progress is establishing the country’s place in the global nanotechnology arena.
Ottlia Saxl interviews Sir Harry Kroto, who received the Nobel Prize for chemistry, in 1996, along with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for the discovery of Carbon C60, an entirely new form of carbon with many intriguing properties.
Many scientists claim that nanotechnology is a rather artificial term and that it is only “…what we have been doing for ages” …whether in physics, chemistry or biology. On the other hand, there is a huge hype and fuss about “nanotechnology” and the appearance of the “nano“ prefix on a wide range of consumer products from skin cream to personal electronic devices and automotive products to stone cleaners. So why has “nano” become such a buzzword for some, whilst raising scepticism in others? For clues we perhaps need to look back to the early days of nanotechnology.
Imagine a cable, almost 36 thousand kilometres long, extending from the surface of the earth and capable of transporting payloads and people into space. Carbon nanotubes, considered as the wonder material of the 21st century, are a potential candidate material in this revolutionary concept of the Space elevator.
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