http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/NanotechnologyFind stories, videos, and photos about Nanotechnology from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:47:35 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/TECH/09/22/nano.technology.energy/tztop.belcher.mit.cnn.jpghttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Nanotechnology14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Nanotechnology from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/22/nano.technology.energy/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/09/22/nano.technology.energy/index.html#cnnSTCTextForgot to charge your cell phone last night? Imagine that you could power it by walking. Weirder still, you might be able to just spray a new battery on.Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:32:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/16/smallbusiness/kevlar_killer.fsb/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/16/smallbusiness/kevlar_killer.fsb/index.htmFew entrepreneurs plan to shoot their product down. For David Lashmore, it was a necessity.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:27:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/18/nanotech.cancer.nano.tumors/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/18/nanotech.cancer.nano.tumors/index.html#cnnSTCTextThey're ready to sting, and they know where they're going.Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/home_depot_nanotechnology_bernard_marcus.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/home_depot_nanotechnology_bernard_marcus.fortune/index.htmBernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot, free-market absolutist, aquarium builder and philanthropist is way into nanotechnology these days.Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:53:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/14/bio.tech/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/14/bio.tech/index.html#cnnSTCTextA group of experts from around the world will Thursday hold a first of its kind conference on global catastrophic risks.Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:22:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/12/solar.coating/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/11/12/solar.coating/index.html#cnnSTCTextResearchers have developed a new anti-reflective coating that boosts the efficiency of solar panels and allows sunlight to be absorbed from almost any angle.Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:46:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/19/nanoventskin/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/06/19/nanoventskin/index.html#cnnSTCTextAs a product designer, Agustin Otegui's has to "think big" about the objects he creates. From novel portable chairs made out of shovels to chrome radiators that look like modern works of art, he recasts the mundane in a modernist and functional new light.Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:35:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/10/02/space.elevator/index.html#cnnSTCTextA new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating.Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:28:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/18/technology/kirkpatrick_nano.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/18/technology/kirkpatrick_nano.fortune/index.htmImagine walking down the supermarket aisle with a cheap device you could hold up to a tomato. If the sensor detects a pesticide residue, you'd know the "organic" label is a lie. Similar tools could track the chemical content of water in a stream, telling you if there was lead contamination and when it got there, or keep constant watch on a bridge and tell if a structural steel beam was at risk of collapse.Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:34:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/15/bio.tech/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/15/bio.tech/index.html#cnnSTCTextA group of experts from around the world will hold a first of its kind conference Thursday on global catastrophic risks.Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:36:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/11/halas.qa/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/11/halas.qa/index.html#cnnSTCTextGray goo or the future of medicine? CNN spoke to Naomi Halas, a professor at Rice University in Texas, about nanotechnology and her work on nanoshells, tiny particles that may hold the key to curing cancer.Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:06:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/11/halas.biog/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/11/halas.biog/index.html#cnnSTCTextNaomi Halas is the inventor of nanoshells, tiny glass particles coated in gold. She dreams of a world without cancer -- and she believes that they hold the key.Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:54:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/11/halas.vision/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/06/11/halas.vision/index.html#cnnSTCTextBy 2020, will cancer be a disease of the past? CNN spoke to scientist Naomi Halas and explored her vision of a world where cancer can be cured with tiny gold-coated nanoparticles.Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:35:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/03/nanotextiles/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/10/03/nanotextiles/index.html#cnnSTCTextThe approach of flu season sends many people scurrying for vaccinations and vitamins. But what if you could avoid the flu and other viruses simply by getting dressed? That's the idea behind two garments that are part of the "Glitterati" clothing line designed by Olivia Ong, a senior design major at Cornell University. Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:02:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117050/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117050/index.htmCleaning up contaminated water is big business. World demand for treatment is forecast to increase 6 percent per year through 2009 to more than $35 billion, according to a 2006 report by research firm Freedonia.Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:43:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141306/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141306/index.htmLike any gigantic telecommunications company, Verizon is in love with optical fiber.Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050991/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050991/index.htmFor all their skill and technological prowess, human engineers still can't match Mother Nature's best designs. Take, for example, the toe pads of ordinary house geckos.Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:04:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0705/gallery.b2100_ceos.biz2/index.htmlhttp://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0705/gallery.b2100_ceos.biz2/index.htmlCEOs reveal the business strategies that put companies like Akamai, Netflix, and Priceline at the top of Business 2.0's ranking of the 100 fastest-growing technology companies.Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:32:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/19/silver/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/19/silver/index.htmlWant to get rid of germs? Mold and grime? Smelly feet?Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:35:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/02/26/technology/intel/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/02/26/technology/intel/index.htmIntel made the latest move in its battle with AMD to be the first to introduce next-generation microchips that will run faster and use less energy than existing models.Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:19:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/08/fs.nanobots.forum/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/08/fs.nanobots.forum/index.htmlA new breed of nanobots is being designed to assist doctors by going where no surgeon or technology has gone before. Working at the scale of molecules, these micro-machines are taking their cues from bacteria and the way in which they find their way around the human body. If they are successful, they could bring about a new type of molecular surgery and a different perspective to our own inner space.Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:51:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/08/ft.nanobots/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/02/08/ft.nanobots/index.htmlA new breed of nanobots is being designed to assist doctors by going where no surgeon or technology has gone before.Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:42:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/technology/hp_chips/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/01/16/technology/hp_chips/index.htmHewlett-Packard researchers announced Tuesday a new advance in its computer chips using nanotechnology, which could significantly improve performance.Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:53:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/18/space.elevator/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/09/18/space.elevator/index.htmlPosted September 18, 2006Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:49:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/01/nanotech/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/09/01/nanotech/index.htmlThere's nothing tiny about the international controversy brewing over the safety of nanomaterials. In April, a German company recalled a tile sealant called Magic Nano after dozens of consumers suffered breathing problems while using it. Never mind that the product contained particles too large to actually count as nanomaterials (which must be smaller than a billionth of a meter) the scare was on, and European confidence in products labeled "nano" had already sunk.Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:39:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/16/artificial.muscles/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/16/artificial.muscles/index.htmlSince Deep Blue's victory over chess champion Gary Kasparov, humans have had to grow used to the idea of being eclipsed by computers in the most intellectual of mind games.Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:29:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/19/heaven/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/19/heaven/index.htmlHeaven or Hell? In the first of a three part series CNN hears how some scientists believe the future will be better than our wildest dreams.Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:50:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/12/introduction/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/06/12/introduction/index.htmlHumanity is on the verge of an incredible future. Technologies that seem like science fiction are already becoming science fact as researchers develop innovations that will transform the very essence of what it is to be human.Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:59:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/05/04/nanotech.movie/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/05/04/nanotech.movie/index.htmlA baseball zooms through clouds, straight through a wall and into the waiting hand of actor Adam Smith, who is tricked out like a magician, complete with wand, tuxedo and top hat. "How do you do it?" Smith asks conspiratorially. "You just need a small enough ball, of course."Thu, 04 May 2006 17:52:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/technology/ibm_semiconductor/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/03/24/technology/ibm_semiconductor/index.htmIBM announced Friday it had built the first electronic circuit around a carbon molecule, which could potentially herald the next generation of semiconductors.Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:14:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/03/01/8370588/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/03/01/8370588/index.htmEvery world-changing wonder has to begin somewhere. But it would be hard for the space elevator to have a less auspicious start than it got last October in a foggy office parking lot in Mountain Vi... Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:24:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362801/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362801/index.htmA little over five years ago, several top executives at 3M called together their senior managers in R&D to show them the not-so-rosy writing on the wall. The company's annual revenues were stalled,...Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362828/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/11/01/8362828/index.htmTo create natural-looking makeup, L'Oréal is borrowing a concept from nature. Next year the Paris-based cosmetics powerhouse will unveil a line of nanotechnology makeup that gets its color not from...Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/cnn25.top25.flashforward/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/cnn25.top25.flashforward/index.htmlThis is not your father's future.Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:13:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/09/20/spark.electronic.nose/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/09/20/spark.electronic.nose/index.htmlAn "electric nose" that can distinguish the personal scent of an individual may begin to replace four-digit pin numbers and secret passwords within the next decade.Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:21:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/07/08/technology/nanotech/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/07/08/technology/nanotech/index.htmNEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Nanotechnology, the science of manipulating matter at the sub-molecular scale, has gotten a lot of buzz in the mainstream media, but it's mostly been "ooh, ahh, gee-whiz" type coverage.Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:02:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/21/cancer.nanotech/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/21/cancer.nanotech/index.htmlScientists using nanotechnology have devised a way of delivering cancer drugs that could make them up to 10 times more effective in combating the killer disease.Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:59:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/03/cnn25.top25.innovations/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/01/03/cnn25.top25.innovations/index.htmlThe world was different before the Internet.Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:13:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/01/01/8250226/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/01/01/8250226/index.htmAt last, a reason to toss out that musty box of Arm & Hammer. In 2004, Samsung equipped its newest line of refrigerators with an interior coating of nanoscale silver particles—known to be a natural...Sat, 01 Jan 2005 05:01:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/06/explorers.nano/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/12/06/explorers.nano/index.htmlA South Korean scientist says he has come up with an inexpensive way to produce nanoparticles on a large scale without harming the environment.Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:38:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/10/04/8186802/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/10/04/8186802/index.htmBOUNDING UP THE STAIRS AT THE BEIJING Genomics Institute, Darren Cai, vice president of business development, pulls a flight ahead of me before I realize that the usual pace here is close to a spri...Mon, 04 Oct 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/technology/techinvestor/lamonica/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/08/05/technology/techinvestor/lamonica/index.htmIt looks like nanotech isn't ready for prime time after all.Thu, 05 Aug 2004 15:00:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/techinvestor/lamonica/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/07/29/technology/techinvestor/lamonica/index.htmThere's been a lot of fuss this week about whether Google should really be worth $36 billion when it goes public.Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:37:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/07/01/374824/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/07/01/374824/index.htmIn a lobby at the General Electric Complex known as the "House of Magic" sits a desk that belonged to GE founder Thomas Edison. There, under glass, are copies of his notebook papers with sketches o...Thu, 01 Jul 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/14/372638/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/14/372638/index.htmOne summer day in 1985, not that long before he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for a device he had invented five years earlier for seeing atoms, known as a scanning tunneling microscope, IBM sci...Mon, 14 Jun 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/17/369574/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/17/369574/index.htmHayward, Calif. Founded 1998 Mon, 17 May 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/17/369606/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/17/369606/index.htmYou may not be able to see it, but you can't avoid its buzz. Nanotechnology is fast becoming as pervasive a cultural icon as TiVo or Levitra. The wizardry of building teeny things that are measured...Mon, 17 May 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368234/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/05/01/368234/index.htmCancer treatment is notoriously inexact. To make it more effective, doctors need a better way to detect cancerous cells spreading in patients' blood. That would allow them to quickly halt therapies...Sat, 01 May 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/04/15/nanotech.ideas/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/04/15/nanotech.ideas/index.htmlNanotechnology is often mentioned as the tool that will dramatically alter the future.Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:36:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/04/01/366216/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/04/01/366216/index.htmThe vintage vinyl booths at Buck's diner in Woodside, Calif., a few miles from venture capital central along Sand Hill Road, are extra-long, and the wedge of apple pie with vanilla ice cream is ext...Thu, 01 Apr 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/28/fortune.ff.tech.politics/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/01/28/fortune.ff.tech.politics/index.html"I do not see much hope in the political domain, but a lot of hope in the technological domain," said Shimon Peres last week at a private breakfast he hosted in a knotty wood-paneled ski-hotel dining room in Davos, Switzerland.Wed, 28 Jan 2004 00:07:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/12/01/354218/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/12/01/354218/index.htmOne of the least important things about nanotechnology is that it is small. Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/11/01/351945/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/11/01/351945/index.htmA tad too large to qualify as nanotechnology, but still as tiny as a speck of dust, MEMS are making a big splash. Once considered a laboratory novelty, MEMS are functional micromachines that use me...Sat, 01 Nov 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/15/349136/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/09/15/349136/index.htmYOUNG, RICH, POWERFUL, AND CHANGING THE WORLD Work your way up from the bottom? Forget it. Our list of 40 (okay, 41) who have vaulted to the top before they hit 40. Mon, 15 Sep 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/12/01/333886/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2002/12/01/333886/index.htmIf you could assemble the world's most perfect board of directors, whom would you put on it? You'd probably want some theoreticians from the business schools, a venture capitalist or two, maybe a s...Sun, 01 Dec 2002 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/08/12/327034/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/08/12/327034/index.htmThe headlong rush of semiconductor miniaturization, it seems, waits for no one. Just because chipmakers are staring at woefully thin order books doesn't mean they can stop following Moore's law, th...Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/25/305482/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/25/305482/index.htmThis past Valentine's Day, a year-old Houston startup called Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc., or CNI, began FedExing jelly-jar-sized containers of a high-tech soot so coveted that buyers have been wil...Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289294/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289294/index.htmWhen it comes to the mirrors in optical switches, small is all. That's because the smaller the mirrors, the more of them you can cram into a single switch, making it possible to route ever more opt...Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289307/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/09/289307/index.htmSpeech technology pioneer Ray Kurzweil is the author of The Age of Intelligent Machines and The Age of Spiritual Machines, published last year. He was interviewed by David Kirkpatrick. Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278359/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/04/17/278359/index.htmNever has industry had a greater stake in the process of inventing and producing materials that are the flesh of new technology. Stuff like semiconductors, optical fibers, metallic alloys, and poly...Mon, 17 Apr 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/10/259545/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/05/10/259545/index.htmUnnoticed, like dust mites on a couch, are growing numbers of tiny mechanical gadgets with amazing capabilities. Rugged motion sensors smaller than a fingernail. Micromirrors, 1.2 million of the li...Mon, 10 May 1999 04:01:00 EDT