Back To Original Shape After Being Crumpled? Breakthrough Produces Metal Rubber Flexible Metal Sheets Snap by Nanotechnology

once its started, nothing will makes it stop, the nano even comes to Produces Metal Rubber Flexible Metal Sheets

Metal rubber is narrow and can be twisted, folded, or crumpled up, and then immediately snaps back to its original shape. It also conducts electricity like solid metal. This of work has all sorts of industrial applications, including use in consumer electronics, military and aircraft industries, and medical technologies as well. It also has applications in robotics, where metal rubber could be used for robotic skin or flexible circuits. It may even be useful for generating artificial muscles.

A breakthrough in material science has produced a highly pliable metallic substance called "metal rubber." This has been developed by a company called NanoSonic, and is the product of nanotechnology fabrication processes.

While I am not a gigantic fan of the over-hyped nanotechnology field, this particular product of nanotechnology looks promising. A material such as this might potentially revolutionize flexible circuits and make all electronics, whether in robots, medical devices, or airplanes, far more resilient and resistant to fatigue.

Nanotech will kill cancer cells by the Heat treatment

The Treatment No Mater it comes from the Nanotech or else, but the Nano can give you a hand with the cancer cells

The testes -- always a few degrees cooler than the remainder of the body -- are an ideal location for cancer cells, but proof suggests those cells die when they try to spread to other locations around the body.

Testicular cancer patients have a higher survival rate than other cancer patients because the cancer cells are sensitive to body heat, leading the researchers at Johns Hopkins University to conclude heat therapy could be a viable treatment for cancer.

"We tried to put our heads together about what they know about the differences between testicular and other cancers." Getzenberg said in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "There is an fabulous difference in treatment success, and they desired to come up with a simple idea that has a biological basis."

This leads Professor Robert Getzenberg and his colleagues to think the cancer cells would reply well to heat treatment in what they call the "Lance Armstrong effect," after the seven-time Tour de France winner who famously beat testicular cancer. Getzenberg and the other scientists are now experimenting with other heat-based methods of weakening cancer cells.

"These nanoparticles exist now and can be used in the body. The advantages are you don't must put them in every cell as long as you are getting a warming surroundings," Getzenberg said.

The issue with heat therapy would be targeting the cancer cells without doing any damage to the healthy cells. But nanotechnology could permit researchers to make use of ion particles on malignant cells directly by developing them to be drawn to specific markers on the surface of a cancer cell. Five times they bond with the cancer cells, the nanoparticles can be heated using a magnetic field.

Ed Yong, cancer information officer at Cancer Research UK, added, "Nanotechnology is a thrilling new field of science and it is set to play an increasing role in detecting and treating cancers."

But consumer health advocate Mike Adams disagrees. "You don't require nanotechnology or other technical hocus pocus to generate heat and damage cancer cells," they explains. "Just engage in regular physical exercise that makes you hot and produces a healthy sweat. Lance Armstrong didn't beat testicular cancer with nanotechnology, they beat it by pumping his legs on a bicycle."

food industry workers may exposure Nanotech ingredients to unknown health risks

The Nanotech still new after all, and Human's an enemy to what he's ignorant

According to Andrew Maynard, editorial author and chief science advisor to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, an estimated three million workers will produce about $2.6 trillion worth of nanotechnology manufactured foods a year by 2015. They also quoted other research that predicted nanotechnology would be worth $16.4 billion to the food industry by 2010. According to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnology's online database, there's over 300 nanotechnology products already on the market, including foods, food packaging and dietary supplements.

A study recently published by the British Occupational Hygiene Society suggests that workers who manufacture nanotech foods -- foods containing nanoparticles that are expected to behave in a specific manner -- may be exposed to unknown health risks.

Maynard also complained that, while companies spend upward of $1 billion yearly on nanotech research, they only spend about $11 million on safety studies.

"The presence of engineered nanomaterials in the workplace today poses as an immediate challenge to how occupational safety and health is managed," Maynard said. "So far, they have a variety of red flags that indicate some engineered nanomaterials might present a new or unusual health hazard."

Studies of rats have found that discrete, nanometer-diameter particles could crossing the animals' blood-brain barrier in to the brain itself. Until the effects on humans are known, Maynard suggested nanotechnology businesses initiate "control banding", which would involve making a nanomaterial "impact index" template to assess appropriate risk control guidelines. The index would measure the risk of individual products based on particle size, shape and activity, as well as the amount of material and dustiness.

"This is still very much at the conceptual stage," said Maynard. "But unconventional issues require unconventional solutions, and these in turn will need a serious investment in relevant nanotechnology risk research.

Make Solar Electricity Cheaper Than Coal with Nanosolar

What makes you believe that you cant saving big money and your free to use your Electricity ?

 

everything is possible with the nanotech
 

"It's 100 times thinner than existing solar panels, and they can deposit the semiconductors 100 times faster," said Nanosolar's cofounder and chief executive officer, R. Martin Roscheisen. "It's a combination that drives down costs dramatically."

A new combination of nano and solar expertise has made it feasible for solar electric generation to be cheaper than burning coal. Nanosolar, Inc. has developed a way to produce a kind of ink that absorbs solar radiation and converts in to electric current. Photovoltaic (PV) sheets are produced by a machine similar to a printing press, which rolls out the PV ink onto sheets about the width of aluminum foil. These PV sheets can be produced at a rate of hundreds of feet per minute.

Because of their light weight and flexibility, the PV sheets (dubbed PowerSheets) are much more versatile than current PV panels, which must be mounted on sturdy surfaces like roofs or the ground. In addition, because there is no silicon used in the production of the sheets, they cost only 30 cents per watt of power produced.

Traditional PV cells cost about $3 per watt, while burning coal costs about $1 per watt.

Nanosolar is ramping up production of its PowerSheets at factories in San Jose, New york, and Berlin, and expects to have them commercially available before the finish of the year. The excitement around the PowerSheets is so strong that the company already has a to year backorder, and the company has raised over $150 million from venture capitalists, including Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

"This is the first time that they can actually drop the cost of solar electricity down to a level that would be competitive with grid electricity in most industrialized nations," said Nanosolar co-founder Brian Sager.

"Solar panels have not been popular to the American people because they have been pricey. That is what we are changing now," Roscheisen said.

too secretive nanoparticles Food industry

The industry is "very reluctant to put its head above the parapet and be open about research on nanotechnology," said study chairperson Lord John Krebs.

The food industry is being secretive about the extent to which it's adopted nanotechnology, according to a document by the United Kingdom's House of Lords Science and Expertise Committee.

"They got their fingers burnt over the use of GM crops and so they require to keep a low profile on this issue. They think that they ought to adopt exactly the opposite approach. In case you require to build confidence you ought to be open than secretive."

Nanotechnology refers to the practice of manipulating particles on the scale of one-billionth of a meter. Particles of this size behave in a fundamentally different fashion than they do on the more familiar scale, producing a wide range of novel applications. Because nanoparticles are not currently regulated any differently than larger particles, they are already making their way in to consumer products, from sunscreens and cosmetics to clothing and sporting goods. Their industrial and medical makes use of are also being explored.

It is "regrettable that the food industry [is] refusing to discuss its work in the area," the document says.

The food industry is inquiring in to ways that nanotechnology can be used for applications such as flavor or even nutritional enhancement, but has taken advantage of the regulatory loophole to keep these practices secret.

"We are not clear what is out there in use at the moment," Krebs said.

According to the Project on Emerging Nanotechnolgies, there's at least 84 food-related products making use of nanotechnology already. Yet due to industry secrecy, such numbers are necessarily speculative and probably underestimates.

The document estimates that the nanotechnology market will balloon from its current value of $410 million to over $4.1 billion in the next years.

treasure of the green nanotechnology might be in Cinnamon

(NaturalNews) Gold nanoparticles, so brilliantly tiny they can not be seen by the bare eye, are used in electronics, healthcare products and as pharmaceuticals in some cancer treatments. Regrettably, the positive applications of gold nanoparticles come with a downside -- producing the nanoparticles requires very poisonous chemicals and harmful acids. And, because the nanotechnology industry is expected to produce giant quantities of nanoparticles in the immediate future, serious concerns are being raised over the environmental impact of the global nanotechnological revolution and its current need for poisonous materials.

But now University of Missouri (UM) scientists have found a way to make "green" nanotechnology by replacing all of the poisonous chemicals necessary to make gold nanoparticles. How can this be accomplished? By using a spice present in most kitchens -- cinnamon.

There is another benefit, . "Our gold nanoparticles are not only ecologically and biologically benign, they are also biologically active against cancer cells," Dr. Katti announced in a statement to the media.

For their study, which was recently published in the journal Pharmaceutical Research, MU scientist Kattesh Katti, professor of radiology and physics in the School of Medicine and the College of Arts and Science, senior research scientist at the University of Missouri Research Reactor and director of the Cancer Nanotechnology Platform, and his research team combined gold salts with cinnamon and stirred the mixture in water to synthesize gold nanoparticles. This new method not only makes use of no poisonous materials, but it doesn't need any electricity, either.

While conducting their research, the scientists discovered that natural phytochemicals in cinnamon are released when the nanoparticles are created -- and these phytochemicals combined with gold nanoparticles form a promising treatment for cancer. That is because the phytochemicals are carried by the gold nanoparticles in to cancer cells and assist in the destruction or imaging of malignancies.

"From our work in green nanotechnology, it is clear that cinnamon -- and other species such as herbs, leaves and seeds -- will serve as a reservoir of phytochemicals and has the capability to convert metals in to nanoparticles," Dr. Katti said in a statement to the media. "Therefore, our approach to 'green' nanotechnology creates a renaissance symbolizing the indispensable role of Father Nature in all future nanotechnological developments."

Dr. Katti, who is the editor of The International Journal of Green Nanotechnology, added that as more makes use of for nanotechnology are created, it is crucial that scientists find ways to establish a workable connection between nanotechnology and green science.

"Nano-Foods" will be soon near your house

    Imagine that your going someday to buy for Nanofoods

most of this research is going on in secret because of fears over how the public will reply. Like genetically-modified organisms (GMs), nano-modifying food involves literally changing its molecular properties, which has never been proven safe. So naturally, consumers are likely to reject NM food if given the choice.
 

 The scientific community has an five times again caught food-tampering fever. Recent reports indicate that food scientists are busy developing nanoparticle-modified (NM) food that could day finish up on your dinner plate -- and you may never even know it. By shifting around nanoparticles, food scientists say that fat-free foods can taste likes full-fat foods, and they can be programmed to digest more slowly--two changes that some say may help reverse the obesity epidemic.

"These particles could be hazardous and they must know more about their effects both in the body and in the environment," said Frans Kampers, coordinator of research on food nanotechnology at Wageningen and Research Middle in the Netherlands. "Since these particles are small, they canâ ¦enter cells or even the nucleus of a cell if they have the right characteristics." 

The said objective of nanotechnology research in food is to generate foods that behave differently than actual ones in terms of digestion, assimilation, taste and nutritional value. By altering the "nano-structure" of food, so to speak, NM food can be programmed to make people feel fuller faster, for example. And nutrients in food may even be nano-encapsulated to release at timed intervals to specific parts of the body.

Although NM food has yet to see the light day, the European Union (EU) is already taking proactive steps to make positive that, if it does make it to consumers, NM food will at least be regulated and labelled. Thus, the EU has developed a research project called NanoLyse to address the "very limited knowledge [that is] available on the potential impact of engineered nanoparticles on consumers' health."