Over 90 NNI - funded centers and user facilities across the country provide researchers the facilities, equipment, and trained staff to
develop nanotechnology applications and associated manufacturing processes.
Not exact matches
Yet
nanotechnology developed for medical
applications could form a model for ways of exploiting oil reserves that conventional methods can not reach.
Thanks to the
application of
nanotechnology, the team
developed a sponge with outstanding mercury adsorption properties where mercury contaminations can be removed from tap, lake and industrial wastewater to below detectable limits in less than 5 seconds (or around 5 minutes for industrial wastewater).
Undergraduate Winner: Linda Mohammad (with Maajida Murdock), University of Baltimore - Clean Water as a Right that the Human Body has in Regards to
Nanotechnology:
Application of Graphene Filters For Water Purification In
Developing Countries
Research at CeNTech keeps a strong relation to technological
applications and shall result in patents for new
nanotechnology based inventions which can be
developed up to the product level.
At the 2013 Conference George Church presented an overview of his work in
developing applications of atomically precise
nanotechnology intended for commercialization, from data storage to medical nanorobots to genomic sequencing to genomic engineering to mapping individual neuronal functioning in whole brains.
The collaboration's ongoing work to further
develop novel
applications for the two technologies is conducted at Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, SEAS and the Harvard Center for Nanoscale Systems, which is part of the National
Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure.