The AZoNano.com "Nanotech Thought Leaders" series is a collection of articles that cover the key technology areas where Nanotechnology is making an impact and where it will make an increasing impact. All the articles are written by experts who have been invited as recognised leaders in their fields to provide a "state of the art" contribution.
Novel delivery vehicles generated through nanotechnology is raising the exciting prospect for controlled and sustained drug delivery across the impenetrable skin barrier.
By Dr Adam Friedman
21 Nov 2010
While molecular machines driven by chemical, light or thermal energies can be found throughout nature, little progress has been made toward creating synthetic counterparts.
By Professor Charlie Sykes
21 Nov 2010
This short review article overviewes a simple but useful method to fabricate 3D dense-array nanostructures with good regularity of pattern, size, and shape over a large sample area.
By Professor Chang-Hwan Choi
20 Oct 2010
At the 'Centre for materials elaboration and structural studies', Professor Wolfgang Bacsa and Pascal Puech and have much focused in screening CNTs with optical methods and developing physical processes for carbon nanotubes working closely with the materials chemists at different local institutions.
By Professor Wolfgang Bacsa
20 Oct 2010
IBN's single-step fabrication technique obviates the time-consuming and labor-intensive lithography process for nano-scale device fabrication, and enhances the fabrication accuracy and yield.
By Dr. Somenath Roy
19 Sep 2010
Utilization of nanomaterials very often requires their dispersion in various liquids, in order to enable embedding them homogenously in a device or in a final liquid product.
By Professor Shlomo Magdassi
19 Sep 2010
Nanotechnology is particularly relevant to both the utility and fabrication of self-healing materials. For example, as devices reach nanoscale dimensions, it becomes critical to establish means of promoting repair at these length scales.
By Professor Anna Balazs
9 Sep 2010
Over the past decade there has been an explosion in the number of nanotechnology-based agents that have been applied to biological and medical applications.
By Professor Andrew Tsourkas
7 Sep 2010
Research on semiconductor nanowires has grown exponentially over the last decade, with much attention focusing on their synthesis, fundamental properties, and potential applications.
By Dr. George Wang
11 Aug 2010
Nanotechnologies bring the potential for enormous benefit, but there are also some risks associated with its use, given the limited knowledge about the health effects of new nanomaterials.
By Dr. Howard Morris
11 Aug 2010