No nanotube fertility risk
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010Researchers have found that carbon nanotubes injected into male mice cause damage to the testes, but the harm is reversible and does not affect fertility.
Researchers have found that carbon nanotubes injected into male mice cause damage to the testes, but the harm is reversible and does not affect fertility.
Using carbon nanotubes in a battery’s electrode produced up to a 10-fold increase in the amount of power a battery could deliver.
New research shows that an enzyme found in white blood cells can break down carbon nanotubes in the body.
Nano-sized cables made with titanium dioxide-coated carbon nanotubes could hold the key to developing new high-capacity batteries.
SAFENANO provides a summary of key nano health and safety developments from 2009, and considers how these are likely to shape nano in 2010.
Powering your iPod or cell phone could become as easy as plugging it into your tee shirt or jeans.
A European consortium has just published a review of the health and safety of engineered nanomaterials.
A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water.
In a few decades human and machine will merge, illness will be eradicated, and human beings will live to 150. Take a journey into the imaginations of scientists and futurists pondering ways to use nanotechnologies, and discussions about how society should or could use them.
US researchers, using a National Institutes of Health grant, will learn the fate of manufactured carbon nanomaterials once they are in the body – particularly where environmental or occupational exposure can occur.