(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Nanotechnology is a division of scientific research and engineering focused on both comprehending and managing matter at the molecular level. It is becoming more common to leverage nanotechnology to ...

Learn about six fascinating nanotechnology uses and nano tech applications shaping nanotech today, from medicine and energy ...

Nanotechnology is a science that deals with materials having at least one of its dimensions in nanoscale. At this scale, nanomaterials are not bulky and mostly comprise a surface, which means most of ...

The goal of Sandia National Laboratories’ National Institute for Nano-Engineering (NINE) is to train the next generation of U.S. scientists, says NINE program manager Regan Stinnett (c). By combining ...

In RIT's microsystems engineering Ph.D., you’ll conduct research in nano-engineering, design methods, and technologies for micro- and nano-scaled systems. State-of-the-art Research Facilities: Labs ...

In hydrogen production catalysts, water droplets must detach easily from the surface to prevent blockage by bubbles, allowing for faster hydrogen generation. In semiconductor manufacturing, the ...

Working at levels as small as a billionth of a metre, researchers on an IAEA project have studied radiation’s effect on nano-architectures – the design and building of nano structures – and identified ...

Recently, the Laboratory of Micro and Nano Engineering, School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) has made important progress in the field of structural ...

Understanding, shaping and combining matter at the atomic and molecular scale is called nanotechnology. Nanotechnology encompasses science, medicine, engineering, computing and robotics at this scale, ...

There is great incentive to genetically engineer crops that possess desirable traits like greater biomass production and resistance to pathogens while requiring less resources, including space and ...