A space elevator held up by a carbon spider web
Episode 44
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Audio file
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May 19th, 2017
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59 mins 42 secs
What is nanotechnology?
- An invitation to enter a new field of physics: A lecture on nanotechnology that Richard Feynman gave in 1959 (Zyvex)
- Definition of 'nano' (Wikipedia)
- Nanotechnology (Wikipedia)
- The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)
- Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN)
- The billion year technology gap (The Daily Galaxy)
- The Fermi death sentence (Nanotechnology Now)
- Explaining nanotechnology to a 5th grader (YouTube)
- Your fingernail grows a nanometre every second (NNCI)
- Bottom-up versus top-down approaches (Wikipedia)
- Meet the nanomachines that could drive a medical revolution (Phys.org)
- Nanoparticles (Wikipedia)
- Scanning electron microscope (Wikipedia)
- How to move an atom (IBM Research)
- 20 years of moving atoms one by one: Including how they made the IBM logo out of 35 xenon atoms (Wired)
- Scientists measure how light affects individual atoms for the first time (nanowerk)
- Current applications of nanotechnology (Wikipedia)
- How nanotechnology is changing the future of medicine (MUO)
- Applications of nanotechnology in medicine (Australian Science)
- Convergence Science Network
- Stentrode (ABC, Catalyst)
- The world's first international race for molecular cars, the Nanocar Race (Phys.org)
- Nanoparticles & sunscreen (Cancer Council Australia)
- Titanium dioxide (Wikipedia)
- Nanoparticles are all around us: Naturally-occurring vs man-made (sustainable nano)
- Nanoparticles in nature: Toxic or harmless? (EarthSky)
- Gold nanoparticles can be red or blue/purple (Wikipedia)
- "Properties such as melting point, fluorescence, electrical conductivity, magnetic permeability, & chemical reactivity change as a function of the size of the particle" (NNI)
- Buckminsterfullerene, or buckyballs (Wikipedia)
- Have buckminsterfullerenes (buckyballs) been put to any practical uses? (Scientific American)
- It doesn't seem that any real use has been found for buckyballs yet (Wikipedia)
- Carbon fibre (Wikpedia)
- Carbon nanofibre (Wikipedia)
- Did Bucky Fuller really design a soccer ball? (treehugger)
- How can graphite & diamond be so different if they are both composed of pure carbon? (Scientific American)
- Spiders sprayed with carbon nanotubes spin superstrong webs (Phys.org)
- Spiders ingest nanotubes, then weave silk reinforced with carbon (MIT Technology Review)
- Space elevator (Wikipedia)
- Sorry Johnny, carbon nanotubes may be too weak to get a space elevator off the ground 🙁 (New Scientist)
- LiquiGlide™: MIT's non-stick coatings leave zero waste behind (YouTube)
- What is soap? (World of Molecules)
- Hydrophobic & hydrophilic: "Better understanding of how surfaces attract or repel water could improve everything from power plants to ketchup bottles" (MIT News)
- Origin of 'philately' (Online Etymology Dictionary)
- Origin of 'haemophilia' (Online Etymology Dictionary)
- Nanotechnology haemostatic gauze stops nosebleeds (nano werk)
- Wrapping sponges in graphene nanoribbons allows for Joule heating to help clean up oil spills (Phys.org)
- Molecular nanotechnology: The next industrial revolution (Foresight Institute)
- Researchers use novel materials to build smallest transistor with 1-nanometer carbon nanotube gate (Phys.org)
- Combating climate change (Nature Nanotechnology)
- 7 ways nanotechnology could provide the solutions to combat climate change (The World Nano Foundation)
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