Business Today

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1) Founder: Akshay Singhal started the company while studying B.Tech at IIT Roorkee along with his father, who now handles manufacturing for the company He is also pursuing a PhD in nanotechnology. 2) Big Idea: A nanotechnology R&D company that bridg

Artist Profile

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STORY LESLEY CONRAN A SOLID FRIENDSHIP MAKES FOR a fruitful printing partnership, as Tom Goulder and Steve Lopes have discovered. Sydney-based painter Steve Lopes and master printer Tom Goulder have been working together for almost 20 years. Their wo

Newsweek

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She wasn’t aiming to make  history. But in the late 1990s,  when Sumita Mitra, a chemist at 3M, began to use nanotechnology to improve dental fillings, that’s exactly what happened. Now found in dental offices—and virtually every mouth—her fillings a

Futurity

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Researchers have developed a new manufacturing technique that uses a process similar to newspaper printing to form smoother and more flexible metals for making ultrafast electronic devices. The low-cost process combines tools that metal manufacturing

WellBeing

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WORDS / MARTIN OLIVER Something has been quietly slipping into food products. Tiny nanoparticles have been finding their way into a number of items on the supermarket shelves, unlabelled and subject to minimal regulation. A number of scientists and e

Artist Profile

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ESSAY JOE FROST “TO DO A GOOD PRINT,” JOHN OLSEN declares, “you’ve really got to understand the medium and its possibilities. It’s no good just handing a drawing to a printmaker.” It is a clear and definite statement, the kind one might expect from a

Homes & Antiques

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LITHOGRAPHY Lithographs are made using a greasy crayon applied to limestone, wetted paper is pressed onto the stone and the image is transferred onto the paper. ETCHING Widely used for Old Master prints, the artist incises a waxed metal plate using

Futurity

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If someone is skeptical about the safety of genetically modified foods, chances are they’re wary of nanotechnology, too, researchers report. A new study shows that an individual’s perception of genetically modified organisms might impact their judgme

Artist Profile

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ESSAY MICHAEL KEMPSON 1981 IS A YEAR THAT PROFFERED its fair share of questionable choices. In some instances, the consequences were immediately calamitous, while for others the manifest problems were gradually revealed: Greece joined the EU; Diana S

Futurity

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Researchers have discovered a better way to fabricate atom-thin computer processors. The discovery could have far-reaching impacts on nanoscale chip production and in labs across the globe where scientists are exploring 2D materials for ever-smaller

Stamp Collector

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Letterpress is a relief process; gravure is a recess process and lithography is a planographic process, where the printing surface is essentially flat. Originally, that surface was a smooth chunk of limestone, which has two properties: porosity and a

Futurity

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Researchers have captured organic nanoparticles colliding and fusing on video for the first time. This unprecedented view of “chemistry in motion” will aid nanoscientists developing new drug delivery methods, as well as demonstrate how an emerging im

Artist Profile

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STORY BRIDGET MACLEOD DO YOU SEE YOUR PRINTMAKING AS SEPARATE FROM your painting practice or as an important part of it? It’s very much a part of what I do. I describe myself as a painter who prints. I don’t regard myself as a printmaker as such, I’m

America's Civil War

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DURING THE CIVIL WAR, innovations already under way in technology, business organization, professional practice, government relations, and even reader interest led to great advances in American journalism. The legacy of the Civil War includes the mod

Cruising Helmsman

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• Harwood Bridge: 10.5nm • Maclean: 13nm • Lawrence: 21nm • Brushgrove: 25nm • Ulmarra: 29.5 • Grafton: 36nm • Entrance to Harwood Bridge: 10.5nm • Harwood Bridge to Maclean: 2.5nm • Maclean to Lawrence: 8nm • Lawrence to Brushgrove: 4nm • Brushgrove

Futurity

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By patterning nanoscale donuts into a 2D crystal, researchers have achieved a new level of control over its electrical and optical properties. As researchers eye nanoscale materials for applications like quantum information processing, a method to ta

Futurity

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It’s possible to increase the stiffness, or “elastic modulus,” of a soft silicon-based polymer by infusing it with tiny pockets of liquid gallium, report researchers. These kinds of composites could be used in high-energy absorption materials and sho

Futurity

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Researchers have created a robot “exoskeleton” that can rapidly change its shape by sensing shifts in its environment. The researchers say these microscale machines—equipped with electronic, photonic, and chemical payloads—could become a powerful pla

Futurity

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A team of engineers has found a simple, economical way to make a nano-sized device that can lift many times its own weight. Their creation weighs 1.6 milligrams (about as much as five poppy seeds) and can lift 265 milligrams (the weight of about 825

NPR

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This car race involved years of training, feats of engineering, high-profile sponsorships, competitors from around the world and a racetrack made of gold. And it's invisible to the naked eye.

Futurity

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A nanoparticle that can help clean water of cadmium becomes toxic once taking in the metal. But research finds that organic matter, in this case from algae, reduces that toxicity. Nanotechnology plays an important role in removing toxic chemicals fou

Good

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It’s likely the moisturiser, foundation or eyeliner that you are currently using contains nanoparticles. And, given these are such tiny things you have probably given them nano thought. Nanoparticles are nothing new, though their increased use and ap

Futurity

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Researchers have developed tiny valves that enable the separation and sorting of individual nanoparticles in liquids. The valves work with a broad range of tiny particles, including individual metal and semiconductor nanoparticles, virus particles, l

Futurity

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Researchers have developed a straightforward way to make a type of conducting polymers with high surface area—called “nanoflowers”—potentially useful for energy transfer and storage. If you could brush your cheek against a nanoflower’s microscopic pe

Futurity

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Scientists have found a way to remove contaminants from carbon nanotubes, which need to be as clean as possible to maximize their utility in next-generation nanoscale devices. In the process, the researchers also discovered why the electrical propert

Futurity

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Researchers have assembled complex macroscale superstructures from pyramid-shaped nanoparticle building blocks. The research offers a promising new way to bring the useful properties of nanoparticles to macroscale materials and devices. “There’s been

Futurity

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Gently compressed stacks of graphene form sharp crinkles that carry an electric charge, which could be useful in nanoscale self-assembly and other applications. A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A demonstrates mathematically what

Futurity

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New graphene printing technology can produce electronic circuits that are low-cost, flexible, highly conductive and water repellent, researchers report. The nanotechnology “would lend enormous value to self-cleaning wearable/washable electronics that

Cosmos Magazine

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Fans of the 2018 film Avengers: Infinity War will know the scene where Tony Stark taps a panel on his chest to release a billion tiny robots, which rapidly assemble into an Iron Man suit around him. Tony Stark did something real-world scientists are

Futurity

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New synthetic microparticles are more intricate than some of the most complicated in nature, researchers report. They also investigated how that intricacy arises and devised a way to measure it. The findings pave the way for more stable fluid-and-par