Academic Articles & Research Papers

Nanotechnology for water purification: applications of nanotechnology methods in wastewater treatment

Nanotechnology: The new perspective in precision agriculture

Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary research field. In recent past efforts have been made to improve agricultural yield through exhaustive research in nanotechnology. The green revolution resulted in blind usage of pesticides and chemica...

Expectations and the Emergence of Nanotechnology

Although nanotechnology is often defined as operations on the 10 -9 meters, the lack of charisma in the scale-bound definitions has been fortified by remarkable dreams and alluring promises that spark excitement for nanotechnology. The stor...

Innovations in nanotechnology for water treatment

Important challenges in the global water situation, mainly resulting from worldwide population growth and climate change, require novel innovative water technologies in order to ensure a supply of drinking water and reduce global water poll...

Nanotechnology in dentistry

Nanotechnology is manipulating matter at nanometer level and the application of the same to medicine is called nanomedicine. Nanotechnology holds promise for advanced diagnostics, targeted drug delivery, and biosensors. In the long-term, me...

Encyclopedia of Nanotechnology

Society that has become one of the twentieth-century classic science lectures, titled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom."He presented a technological vision of extreme miniaturization in 1959, several years before the word "chip" became...

Development of nanotechnologies

This article summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering Report on Nanotechnology1. The report is enthusiastic about the great potential benefits of nanotechnologies. Uncertainties assoc...

DNA nanotechnology

Nanotechnology for a Sustainable Future: Addressing Global Challenges with the International Network4Sustainable Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology has important roles to play in international efforts in sustainability. We discuss how current and future capabilities in nanotechnology align with and support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. We argue that,...

Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology: National Nanotechnology Initiative Funding, 2000−2004

By considering risk in the early stages of a technology, costs of identifying important health and environmental impacts after a technology has widely diffused can be avoided. Nanotechnology, involving materials and objects less than 100 nm...

Introduction to Nanotechnology

By taking a new approach and focusing on functional applications, Deborah Chung gives an interesting account of what composite materials can do and achieve, says Yiu-Wing Mai....

Nanotechnology and the Developing World

How nanotechnology can be harnessed to address some of the world's most critical development problems...

Nanotechnology-Based Cosmeceuticals

Cosmeceuticals are the fastest growing segment of the personal care industry, and a number of topical cosmeceutical treatments for conditions such as photoaging, hyperpigmentation, wrinkles, and hair damage have come into widespread use. In...

Nanotechnology and Cancer

The biological picture of cancer is rapidly advancing from models built from phenomenological descriptions to network models derived from systems biology, which can capture the evolving pathophysiology of the disease at the molecular level....

Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVAdvertisementNEXTEncyclopedia of Nanoscience and NanotechnologyCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2013, 91, 36, 39Publication Date (Print):September 9, 2013Publication History Published online31 March 2014Published inissue 9 Sept...

Review of: Bichler, P., Grömer, K., Hofmann-de Keijzer, R., Kern, A. and Reschreiter, H. (eds.) 2005. Hallstatt Textiles: Technical Analysis, Scientific Investigation and Experiment on Iron Age Textiles. BAR (Int. Series) 1351. Oxford: Archaeopress

A arte rupestre na proto-história antiga do Vale de Besteiros: interpretação e territorialidade

A iconografia dos sítios de arte rupestre da Proto-história Antiga nesta região da Beira Alta caracteriza-se pela preponderância de motivos que se ligam a partes concretas do corpo humano. Este aspecto associado a outros que têm que ver com...

Learn to differentiate nine jitals

This study aims to analyze nine type of bull and hoserman jitals, which so far has caused controversy amongst the international numismatic community, who collect and study medieval indian coins. I hope this work will shed more light on thes...

CERAMIKA QUICHUA I JEJ ROLA NAD RZEKĄ NAPO W EKWADORZE

Quichua Indians living in Amazon part of Ecuador are the biggest group of indigenous people in this country. This article is based on the research conducted in the Napo Quichua group, that lives along the Napo River in the Oriente province....

Nota sobre la taxonomía de Microtus (Iberomys) (Arvicolinae, Rodentia) del Pleistoceno superior de la Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal) e interpretación paleoclimática de la asociación de roedores

Gruta do Caldeirão es un yacimiento arqueológico en cueva situado en Tomar (Portugal, oeste de la península Ibérica), que contiene una importante secuencia perteneciente al Pleistoceno superior, adscrita culturalmente al Paleolítico medio (...