(Nanowerk Spotlight) Imagine this: Chip-based credit cards and other smart cards on paper; intelligent sensors and electronics on doctors' surgical gloves; health monitors printed on T-shirts; ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Thanks to nanotechnologies, in particular nanoelectronics, the medical sector is about to undergo deep changes by exploiting the traditional strengths of the semiconductor ...

Nanotechnology, the ability to manipulate and organize matter and structures from the atomic up to the molecular scales, is widely viewed as the most significant technological frontier being explored.

Printed electronics are made of electronic components which can be processed in the form of a liquid solution, and printed onto a substrate in the same way ink is printed onto paper. Whilst the ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a strong supporter of nanotechnology, calls it the next industrial revolution. Most scientists and engineers view it as a vastly more powerful technology ...

In light of this year’s Flint, Michigan water crisis and massive methane leak in Porter Ranch, California, along with increasing awareness of manmade toxicities in our environment, consumers are ...

Electronics patents include applications of nanotechnology to computer memory, an area where commercialisation is expected within three years. In January, scientists at Hewlett-Packard and the ...