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More than Meets the Eye – The LED Contact Lens
Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display
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Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible.
As an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, Parviz works on bio-nanotechnology, self-assembly, nanofabrication and micro-electro mechanical systems. He makes tiny but functional electronic devices and, using nanotechnology and microfabrication techniques, integrates them on to polymers or glass using a self-assembly process.
Micro and Nano Scale Characterisation of Fibres
3rd July 2008, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Belfast
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This one-day workshop will focus on the many challenges of fibre analysis at the micro and nano-scale using state-of-the art surface chemical analysis, including SIMS, XPS and SPM techniques. Topics include fundamental effects of topography in SIMS and XPS, AFM nanomechanics, frictional force microscopy, multivariate analysis and important applications in industry.
This workshop will bring together leading researchers and practical analysts from industry and academia for discussions on the latest developments.
Further details can be found at the National Physical Laboratory website
NanoMedicine Course: Early Bird Rates till August 5th
'Applying Nanotechnology to Medical Diagnostics'
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 5th September 2008
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A one-day course, delivered in collaboration with Strathclyde University, which will review new developments in nanotechnology as applied to IVDs, including:
- Lab-on-a-chip devices
- DNA chips
- nanoarrays
- gene and protein chips
- biosensor technology
- scanning probe microscopy
- in-vivo nano-imaging
The aim of these technologies is clear - to meet the individual patient needs
and monitor the effectiveness of therapeutic intervention with maximum
efficiency and minimal intervention. Recent developments in these fields, together with those of emerging
complementary areas of research, will be the primary focus of this
Nanodiagnostics Course
For further information please telephone Gemma McCulloch : +44 (0)1786 458075
or email: Gemma.McCulloch@nano.org.uk
Register online >>
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Sustainability: What can nano do for your car?
How nanotech power could replace internal combustion engines.
In this feature Lesley Tobin, of the Institute of Nanotechnology, reviews the impact that nanotechnology is having on the development of electric vehicles.
The Chevy Volt: one of the latest plug-in electric vehicles. |
Motor vehicles are the single biggest source of atmospheric pollution, accountable for almost 15% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning - a percentage that is progressively increasing. It is estimated that by 2020 more than 1 billion vehicles will be competing for road space. The average car releases a concoction of at least 1,000 pollutants that contribute to a range of bronchial and respiratory diseases, as well as cancer, lead-poisoning and acid rain . In confronting these problems, nanoscientists have been contributing to environmental sustainability by developing improved rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors. Both types of portable energy supply store electrical energy in a chemical form, with the market currently dominated by lithium-based rechargeable batteries.
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