Nanotechnology researchers build transistor with just seven atoms. Scientists have literally taken a leap into a new era of computing power by making the world’s smallest precision-built transistor – a ‘quantum dot’ of just seven atoms in a single silicon crystal. Despite its incredibly tiny size – a mere four billionths of a meter long [...]

Nanotechnology environmental, health and safety debate heats up Nanotechbuzz The debate over safety in nanotechnology is [...]

UCLA researchers and their collaborators have developed a method that could open the door for investigations into the function of half of all proteins in the human body. The research team has demonstrated nanoscale control over molecules, allowing for the precise study of interactions between proteins and small molecules. Their new technique, in which molecules [...]

Source: SingleNews – SafeNano – 13 May, 2010
At a presentation to the Pesticide Programs Dialogue Committee in Washington on the 29th April, William Jordan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new working definition of the term nanomaterial as
“an ingredient that contains particles that have been intentionally produced to have at least one [...]

Source: ICON – 13 May, 2010
Researchers from Arizona State University, the Georgia Institute of Technology, both in the United States, and Tsinghua University, China, have provided the first direct evidence that nanoscale titanium dioxide (nTiO2) particles can transfer from a low trophic level organism (daphnia, Daphnia magna) to a high trophic level organism (zebrafish) by [...]