The Sustainable Nanotechnologies Project shares its latest achievements

The results from the 3rd SUN annual meeting showed great advancement of the project. The meeting was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK on 4-5 October 2016 where the project partners presented the results obtained during the second reporting period of the project.

Bringing nano environmental health and safety assessment to the wider discussion on risk governance of key enabling technologies

The EU FP7 Sustainable Nanotechnologies (SUN) Project is coming to its end in March 2017. The project has designed its final events to serve as an effective platform to communicate the main results achieved in its course within the Nanosafety community and bridge them to a wider audience addressing the emerging risks of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs).

Artificial muscles show more flex

Artificial muscles made significant gains when a literal twist in the development approach uncovered the tensile or stretchy abilities of polymer fibers once they were twisted and coiled into a spring-like geometry. Now, researchers have improved these tensile properties even further by focusing on the thermal properties of the polymer fiber and the molecular structure that makes best use of the chiral configuration.

Nanobionic spinach plants can detect explosives

After sensing dangerous chemicals, the carbon-nanotube-enhanced plants send an alert.

Nanotechnology is making drugs more precise. But how?

If drugs could be targeted to exactly the right place in the body, we could probably do with significantly smaller doses - and consequently fewer side effects. To allow for such precise delivery, we need tiny nanocarriers and even smaller nanotrackers to monitor them. Researchers are working on both of these.

Breakthrough work advances path for nanoscale spin-wave majority gates

Scientists have presented breakthrough results supporting the building of technology-relevant majority gates based on spin waves.

Researchers nearly reached quantum limit with nanodrums

Extremely accurate measurements of microwave signals can potentially be used for data encryption based on quantum cryptography and other purposes.