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Have your say about science

Do you want a voice in the nanotechnology revolution? Then air your views through the “Your Science Your Say” initiative. Scientists have three minutes on camera to explain their work in nanotechnology, then members of the public can leave comments or a video response on YouTube. The Environmental Protection Agency will use the results to gauge public response to nanotechnology. So grab your chance at Your Science Your Say: Nano at Dublin’s Science Gallery until July 31st, or see the YSYS website.

Nanoparticles to nanomedicine

It's one thing to make a drug that can treat a disease. It's quite another to get it to go where it needs to in the body to be effective. That's why researchers at UCD are working out how to get tiny nanoparticles safely into cells, and in doing so they are unveiling some big surprises.

Nanoscience, or the study of particles on the scale of millionths of millimetres, has become a hot topic in research over the last decade. Engineered nanoparticles now offer the potential to deliver drugs to combat conditions like cancer, viral infections and neurodegenerative disease, which can lurk in currently hard-to-reach places in the body. See Claire O'Connell's article @ http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2008/0515/1210770682370.html

A Carbon revolution!

Click on the link below to read a brief Irish Times article about the production of multiple carbon sheets and how this innovation could transform electronics!

http://0-www.ireland.com.ditlib.dit.ie/newspaper/sciencetoday/2008/0124/1201073465714.html

Role of Nanotechnology in Solar Energy Generation

Prof Shay Curran delivers a free public lecture entitled The Role of Nanotechnology in Solar Energy Generation at DIT today at 4pm.

Existing solar panels are based on inorganic chemistry. They are made of rigid silicon and while effective, giving conversion efficiencies of between 12 and 20 per cent they are very expensive.
Prof Curran is going "organic" in a chemistry sense, producing thin film solar cells combining modified fullerenes suspended in a polymer layer. "We are sticking to the organics because they are much simpler, cheaper and flexible substances," he says. When Curran says flexible he means flexible. He envisages uses such as coatings on tent fabrics where the tent itself provides the electricity, or fabric-like sheets that can be thrown over a roof top to generate electricity for the home. Imagine a beach towel that also powers an MP3 player or a radio powered by the sun.
For the full Irish Times article see: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/sciencetoday/2007/1213/1197411732332.html

Foresight is a premiere source of news relating to nanotechnology policy, applications and research. Here you can read daily headlines from Nanodot (their blog) and Nanotechnology News.

For nanotechnology news and updates check out Foresight at
http://www.foresight.org/news/news_events.h

PhysORG

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