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  • “Wysinwyg” nanoparticles

    Into the babble of conflicting and confusing terms surrounding nanotechnology, let me introduce another one: “wysinwig nanoparticles”—what-you-see-is-NOT-what-you-get nanoparticles.  It describes particles that have an annoying habit of revealing their true identity only after they have been painstakingly measured, monitored and ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on July 17, 2008
  • Smart materials; smart choices?

    Why nano?  Why care?  For non-nanotech initiates, an obsession with nanotechnology must sometimes seem a bizarre occupation of the sad and lonely.  And even within the nanotechnology community, who hasn’t had occasional doubts over the legitimacy of singling out “nano” as something special?  Yet occasionally a piece of work ...
    Posted to Andrew Maynard (Weblog) by andrew.maynard@physics.org on May 31, 2008