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Nanotechnology, Water, and Development Meridian Institute's ongoing Global Dialogue on
Nanotechnology and the Poor: Opportunities and Risks
(GDNP) commissioned the paper entitled "Nanotechnology,
Water, and Development" to explore the scale and
significance of water and sanitation problems in developing
countries, the broad array of challenges associated with
improving access to water, and the possible opportunities
and risks of using nanotechnology to address these
challenges. Overview and Comparison of Conventional and Nano-Based Water Treatment Technologies Meridian Institute has written a paper entitled "Overview
and Comparison of Conventional and Nano-Based Water
Treatment Technologies" as a supplement to the"Nanotechnology, Water, and Development" paper.
Specifically, this paper responds to numerous requests for
a comprehensive document that facilitates comparisons of
conventional and nanotechnology-based water treatment
devices. Examples of Enabling Technologies for the Development
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Nanotechnology: Small wonders -- Nature (9/1/2010)This article takes an in-depth look at the United States National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI)'s first 10 years - to find out where the money went and what the initiative plans to do next. [More] Pakistan's Science Minister Attacks Funding Cuts -- SciDev.Net (9/1/2010)The Pakistan government has cuts its funds for the Pakistan Ministry of Science and Technology's 2010-2011 budget by almost half, causing the science minister, Muhammad Azam Khan Swati, to criticize his own government. [More] Nanotechnology Quintuples Heating Capacity of Solar Water Heaters -- Renewable Energy Magazine (9/1/2010)Researchers at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil, have developed a solar heating system that uses nanotechnology to heat water to five times the temperature of a conventional system, while also permitting the collector surface area to retain up to 98 percent of heat from solar radiation. [More] Advances Offer Path to Shrink Computer Chips Again -- The New York Times (8/31/2010)Scientists at Rice University and Hewlett-Packard, both in the United States, are reporting this week that they can overcome a fundamental barrier to the continued rapid miniaturization of computer memory, an advance that could allow manufacturers to pack even more power into ever smaller devices like laptops, smart phones and digital cameras. [More] NANO Magazine - Issue 7 -- Research and Markets (8/31/2010)The August 2010 issue of NANO Magazine explores new technologies for energy generation, disease prevention and water purification that have the potential to change the developing world and save millions of lives. [More] Nanotech on Farmers' Fields -- Silicon Nutrition (8/31/2010)A plant nutrition study that addresses nano-sized plant nutrients is now available from the Landbouwkundige Uitgeverij G.C. van den Berg (Veenendaal, The Netherlands). [More] Entrepreneur Profile: SabryCorp Makes Inroads into Nanotechnology -- thedailynewsegypt.com (8/30/2010)This article features a man, Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, who is trying to bring Egypt up to speed in the nanotechnology race. [More] A Simple Filter Could Make LCDs More Efficient -- MIT Technology Review (8/30/2010)Liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), which are used in everything from televisions to cell phones, use several layers of optical devices to colorize, polarize, and shutter light from a backlight, with inefficiencies emerging at every step. [More] Medical Nanotech Could Find Unconventional Oil -- New Scientist (8/30/2010)Conservative estimates of oil remaining in United States oil fields amounts to at least 360 billion barrels, according to Iraj Ershaghi, a petroleum engineer at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and nanotechnology could be a way to exploit oil reserves that conventional methods cannot reach. [More] |
