Comments on: A little history of bionanotechnology and nanomedicine

By: Richard Jones

Richard Jones — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:36:14 +0000

Chris, my posts get closed for comments automatically after 28 days, as part of the fight against spam. If it doesn’t work now, put the comment against the latest post, it’s not irrelevant, after all.

By: Chris Gilgallon

Chris Gilgallon — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:22:32 +0000

Richard, would you be able to open comments on your other post “Science in Hard Times”?

I started reading that report on research funding and growth you linked and then realised I couldn’t comment. Thanks.

By: Richard Jones

Richard Jones — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:48:09 +0000

Zelah, my piece was focused on nanomedicine and bio-nano because my brief was to talk about nanotechnology as it relates to emerging biotechnologies. Take a look at this article – http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/43375/ – for my attempt to relate nanotechnology more broadly to chemistry, colloid science, surface science etc.

By: Zelah

Zelah — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:54:31 +0000

Hi Richard,

This is slightly off Topic but…

There has been Circulating around the Web the idea developed by
Prof Stephen Bennington at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxford and the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London.

This is an idea regarding Nanobeads for the use of Hydrogen in Conventional Cars.

Now, I point this out as your history of Nanotechnology seems to me heavy biased towards Biology with not much mention of Chemistry where of course Nanotech has been around for Thousands Of Years and a roaring sucess story!

My question is this. Does ‘Nanotech History’ in the Public Mind to be about Breakthroughs in Biotech, or can NanoChemistry be a substitute?

Happy New Year

Zelah