 We never cease to be amazed by nature. The smallest of creatures and plants often have the most complex mechanisms, many of which we have yet to understand. Throughout the natural world there are examples of sophisticated nanotechnologies in action.
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Professor Helmut Schmidt, nanomaterials expert and entrepreneur, describes how commercial success can be achieved through enhancing existing products.
The intrinsic rule for commercialising nanomaterials: follow the added value route!
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A simple molecule that helps plants to suck water into their roots from the soil and ensures controlled flow of water between the blood and kidneys in animals, may son be used in industrial processes as scientists strive to develop water purifying devices that work as well as nature's own.
Elaine Mulcahy reports on a European project making the most of aquaporins.
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Is regulating nanotechnology the best way to achieve its full potential?
Nanotechnology offers great possibilities and opportunities but also raises great concerns. So consumer groups, NGOs and other stakeholders question whether the current status of regulation is sufficient. Tina Hoermann comments.
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The spectacular colours of birds' feathers are inspiring scientists to create novel optical devices that mimic nanostructures in nature.
When it comes to colour, birds far out-perform humans. Human skin and hair colour does have some limited variation determined by chemicals under the skin known as pigments which absorb specific wavelengths of light to give the skin or hair specific tone.
An interdisciplinary team of Yale University engineers, physicists and evolutionary biologists recently uncovered some of the processes that led to the development of the nanostructures which give birds their bright plumage.
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