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Tomorrow's green nanofactories

A new podcast explores how nanotechnology researcher Angela Belcher, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is working with viruses to make them do good things. By exploiting a virus's ability to replicate rapidly and combine with semiconductor and electronic materials, she is coaxing them to grow and self-assemble nanomaterials into a functional electronic device.

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   Using environmentally safe compounds like vitamin C, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have vastly improved a popular technology used to generate a diverse range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery systems to resilient paint coatings. The revolutionary improvement in atom transfer radical polymerization now enables large-scale production of many specialty plastics, say the scientists, whose work appears in a special issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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2. Gene machine takes the prize
   11-09-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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3. Green chemistry can help nanotechnology mature, Oregon professor says
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