by Haitham Sabbah June 21, 2004High-tech will make vehicles safer, more powerful and lighter.
The Detroit News says that the adoption of nanotechnology by car manufacturers will produce safer, lighter and cheaper vehicles. While GM is already using nanocomposite materials for several vans, Ford is developing new nanoengineered catalysts to replace platinum. The newspaper gives other examples, such as auto-adaptive suspension [...]
Read the full article → by Haitham Sabbah October 25, 2003Manipulating atoms and molecules has a vast and shining future for products ranging from drugs to medical gear to computers.
In the near nanotech future, today's medical instruments will seem crude. Take magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. A current MRI offers surgeons a macro view, comparable to a satellite picture of the Earth. Applying nanotechnology [...]

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