The global nanotechnology-based medical devices market size was US$ 2.90 billion in 2021. The global nanotechnology-based medical devices market is forecast to grow to US$ 35.15 billion by 2030, ...

A variety of naturally occurring bioactive plants for the treatment of many diseases exist, and these plants have been widely used for millennia around the world due to their small side effects and ...

Back in September 2004, the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) launched the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer to stimulate and coordinate research in biology, engineering and materials science to ...

Oxford physicist Sonia Contera explains how advances in nanotechnology are changing medicine and science. Nanotechnology has long been hailed as a means of eradicating diseases and delivering other ...

Solar technology is approaching a new future thanks to pioneering steps in nanotechnology. One such development is Nextgen Nano’s patented Polypower, which uses biopolymers in solar cells, and is part ...

Inorganic nanoparticles are nanoscale materials composed of inorganic compounds, such as metals, metal oxides, and semiconductors. These nanoparticles typically have sizes ranging from 1 to 100 ...

Suggested Citation: "3 A Global Perspective." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2020. A Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative: Nanoscience, Applications ...

In July 2020, Promethean Particles won an Institute of Physics Business Innovation Award for solving a key fluid-mechanics problem enabling the use of supercritical fluids for the large-scale ...

Some day soon, in a remote village in the developing world, a health worker will put a drop of a patient's blood on a piece of plastic about the size of a coin. Within minutes, a full diagnostic ...

One of the primary concerns in nanoethics is the safety and risk assessment of nanomaterials. Due to their small size and unique properties, nanomaterials may exhibit different toxicological profiles ...