Nanotechnology is generally seen as a relatively new invention. It is generally accepted to have been officially born as a discipline with Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture, "There's plenty of room at ...

Urine is a highly saturated solution of extremely complicated composition. Its basic organic constituents are urea, uric acid and its salts, formed by the oxidation of purines. In that fluid, ...

What if a battery could stay charged for decades? What if medications could be delivered directly to diseased cells without harming healthy ones? Nanomaterials research is bringing these possibilities ...