Showing papers on "Nanomedicine published in 2002"

Nanotechnology: Basic Science and Emerging Technologies

Abstract: BACKGROUND TO NANOTECHNOLOGY Scientific Revolutions Types of Nanotechnology and Nanomachines The Periodic Table Atomic Structure Molecules and Phases Energy Molecular and Atomic Size Surfaces and Dimensional Space Top Down and Bottom Up MOLECULAR NANOTECHNOLOGY Atoms by Inference Electron Microscopes Scanning Electron Microscope Modern Transmission Electron Microscope Scanning Probe Microscopy - Atomic Force Microscope Scanning Tunnelling Microscope Nanomanipulator Nanotweezers Atom Manipulation Nanodots Self Assembly Dip Pen Nanolithography NANOPOWDERS AND NANOMATERIALS What Are Nanomaterials? Preparation Plasma Arcing Chemical Vapour Deposition Sol-Gels THE CARBON AGE New Forms of Carbon Types of Nanotubes Formation of Nanotubes Assemblies Purification of Carbon Nanotubes The Properties of Nanotubes Uses of Nanotubes MOLECULAR MIMICS Catenanes and Rotaxanes Molecular Switches The Electron Driven Molecular Shuttle Switch The pH Driven Molecular Shuttle Switch The Light Driven Molecular Shuttle Switch Synthesis of Rotaxanes and Catenanes Rotaxanes and Molecular Computers Chemical Rotors Prodders Flippers Atom Shuttles Actuators Contacts NANOBIOMIMETICS Introduction Lipids as Nano-Bricks and Mortar Same but Different: Self-Assembled Nanolayers The Bits that Do Things - Proteins Structure is Information - DNA A Biological Nanotechnological Future OPTICS, PHOTONICS AND SOLAR ENERGY Properties of Light and Nanotechnology Interaction of Light and Nanotechnology Nanoholes and Photons Imaging New low Cost Energy Efficient Windows and Solar Absorbers Based On Nanoparticles Photonic Crystals, Surface Wave Guides and Control of Light Paths NANOELECTRONICS Introduction What Will Nanoelectronics Do for Us? The Birth of Electronics The Tools of Micro- and Nanofabrication From Classical to Quantum Physics Quantum Electronic Devices Quantum Information and Quantum Computers Experimental Implementations of Quantum Computers FUTURE APPLICATIONS Micro-Electromechanical Machines Robots - How Small Can They Go? Ageless Materials Invisible Mending of Atomic Dislocations Inside Damaged Materials Nanomechanics and Nanoelasticity Nanoparticle Coatings - Special New Effects Nanoelectronic and Magnetic Devices and New Computing Systems Optoelectronic Devices Environmental Applications INTO THE REALMS OF IMAGINATION Introduction Communication Manufacturing Nanomedicine Society and Ethics Religion and Making Everything from Everything Else Thanks for All the Fish REFERENCES INDEX Each chapter also contains References and Exercises

The future of nanofabrication and molecular scale devices in nanomedicine.

Abstract: Nanotechnology is engineering and manufacturing at the molecular scale, and the application of nanotechnology to medicine is called nanomedicine. Nanomedicine subsumes three mutually overlapping and progressively more powerful molecular technologies. First, nanoscale-structured materials and devices that can be fabricated today hold great promise for advanced diagnostics and biosensors, targeted drug delivery and smart drugs, and immunoisolation therapies. Second, biotechnology offers the benefits of molecular medicine via genomics, proteomics, and artificial engineered microbes. Third, in the longer term, molecular machine systems and medical nanorobots will allow instant pathogen diagnosis and extermination, chromosome replacement and individual cell surgery in vivo, and the efficient augmentation and improvement of natural physiological function. Current research is exploring the fabrication of designed nanostructures, nanoactuators and nanomotors, microscopic energy sources, and nanocomputers at the molecular scale, along with the means to assemble them into larger systems, economically and in great numbers.

Nanomedicine: Fullerene and Carbon Nanotube Biology

Abstract: Nanotechnology is the focus of major government research initiatives worldwide, for example in the USA - the National Nanotechnology Initiative (www.nano.gov) [1]. It has been recognized that fullerenes and carbon nanotubes are one of the key building blocks for nanoscale materials [2]. Considering the especially rich chemistry of C 60 and its 1 nm dimensions (Figure 1A), one expects that applications of these nanoscale materials to medicine should be possible [3a,b].