The use of microbubbles is becoming an increasingly popular imaging technique for screening organs using ultrasound.
They may have a space-age feel to them, but aerogels got their start almost three-quarters of a century ago.
A conventional faraday capacitor stores electrical charges between interleaved conducting plates. The more surface area the plates possess, the more charge the capacitor can hold.
In 1960, Russian engineer Yuri Artsutanov came up with a crazy idea: Instead of using rockets to launch into space, why not build an “elevator” to take people and cargo up?
The concept of nanoenergetics is relatively straightforward…Fundamentally, an explosion occurs with the same energy whether on a microscopic or macroscopic level.
In the nanotech world, one of the technologies that plays offense and defense in the high stakes game against cancer is nanoshells.
One of the toughest things about trying to get a better understanding of nanotechnology is the temptation to imagine the incredible ways it will transform our world.
Nano-Electromechanical Systems are mechanical devices built on an angstrom scale.
There’s little doubt that carbon nanotubes are the stem cells of materials science, without the moral baggage.
