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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

From the Labs: Nanotechnology

New publications, experiments, and breakthroughs in nanotechnology -- and what they mean.

By Kevin Bullis

Mechanisms like the one that produced this marine-sponge skeleton can yield nanostructured materials for electronics. (Courtesy of James Waver and Daniel E. Morse/University of California, Santa Barbara)

Bio-Inspired Nano Synthesis
Sponge studies lead to a method for making novel materials

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