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Topic: Nanoparticles and Nanocrystals

  
retina
ARTIFICIAL RETINA   |  2 comments

Quantum Dot Eyeball-Injection Could Improve Sight

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 9:46 AM

There's an increasingly large body of work on returning vision to people with damaged sight due to retinal failure: Recent advances in artificial retinas have been particularly amazing. But new research and an associated patent ...READ»

gold nanorods
STANLEY A. SCHWARTZ   |  3 comments

Nanotech Invention May Be Golden Bullet for Controlling Drug Addiction

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Mar 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a new use for nanotechnology--as an extremely precise way of delivering chemicals to the right part of the brain to combat drug addiction. And, pleasingly, the science really does ...READ»

innovalight
SOLAR INK   |  4 comments

Spray-On Solar Ink Could Be Just 3 Years Away

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 94
Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 4:38 PM

It's 2014. Instead of hiring workers to install solar panels on your roof, you spray solar ink all over the rooftop and sun-facing walls of your home. It's not science fiction--it could be reality in three to five years according to ...READ»

hydrogen
ALTERNATIVE FUEL   |  2 comments

New Hydrogen Production Method Means Bye-Bye Oil?

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 44
Wed Jan 7, 2009 at 7:26 AM

Hydrogen's promise as an incredibly useful fuel has long been known. It's light, clean, non-polluting, and not overly difficult to produce. But researchers have recently cracked a new more effective method for producing the gas that's ...READ»

led bub
LEDS   |  3 comments

Quantum Light Lamp Is a Warmer LED, but Doesn't Come Cheap

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 40
Wed May 6, 2009 at 7:35 AM

Just the other day I was moaning about the sorry state of consumer LED bulbs, and now Nexxus Lighting has released high-end LED unit that shines a more natural, warmer light than others available. Best of all--from a geeky point of ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Sally's Dreamcoat

BY Fara Warner
Relevancy Score: 30
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:17 AM

Imagine a world where you never have to scrape ice off your windshield--And where car paints don't pollute.READ»