The recent announcement that the University of Alberta has landed a $120 million nanotechnology research facility was mostly reported as an example of how the federal Liberals are trying to woo Albertans. Surprisingly little was said about nanotechnology itself (one commentator, in fact, referred to it simply as “nanotechnology–whatever that is.”) Allow me to rectify …
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Nanopropellors
One of the first science-fiction movies I can remember seeing was Fantastic Voyage, in which a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into an injured man. Their mission: to vaporize a life-threatening blood clot in his brain. Among other things, the movie featured Racquel Welch in a wetsuit. In a …
Nanolithography
My roommate in university had a quirk that annoyed teachers no end: he had the smallest handwriting of anyone I’ve ever met. While I used big old Bic pens on wide-lined notebook paper, he was using fine-point mechanical drafting pencils on the narrowest-lined paper he could find, and still leaving lots of room for any …
Nanotechnology 1996
One of the first science-fiction movies I can remember seeing was Fantastic Voyage, the tale of a group of scientists in a submarine who were shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of an injured man. Their mission: to vaporize a life-threatening but inaccessible blood clot in his brain. Among other things, the …
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