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		<title>Germanane: germanium&amp;#39s answer to graphane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soon after graphene sheets were being produced on a laboratory scale routinely, researchers began producing the hydrogenated version graphane (with a hydrogen atom on each carbon). This step is one of many approaches aimed at harnessing graphene’s powerful conductivity and is also being explored for hydrogen storage and other potential applications (more info in this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5668</link>
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		<title>Drexler&amp;#39s book tour extends to U.S. May6-9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently we pointed at a Forbe&#8217;s interview with Eric Drexler, in anticipation of his pending new book Radical Abundance. The book  has shipped, and Drexler&#8217;s tour schedule now includes a few stops on the coasts of the U.S: New York: May 6th Los Angeles: May 8th &#38; 9th Seattle: May 9th Find exact times and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5650</link>
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		<title>Silicene: silicon&amp;#39s answer to graphene</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the list of potential post-silicon materials for electronics and chips is none other than silicon. More specifically, silicene &#8212; 2D sheets of hexagonally arranged silicon atoms, structurally analogous to graphene and experimentally characterized by physicist Guy Le Lay of Aix-Marseille University in France (2012 abstract here). While graphene possesses exceptional performance qualities, it can’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5642</link>
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		<title>A framework to promote critical thinking about nanotechnology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foresight's Director of Education Miguel F. Aznar has proposed nine questions to promote critical thinking and contextual understanding of the issues related to nanotechnology to enable the general public and policy makers to make informed choices on subjects influenced by nanotechnology.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5637</link>
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		<title>Superparamagnetism-explicated-for us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious, superparamagnetism may become a familiar term in the context of nanoscale electronics and devices. Loosely speaking, superparamagnetism is a size-based phenomenon in which materials that are ferromagnetic on the macroscale &#8212; meaning predisposed toward strong magnetization at room temperature, such as iron and nickel &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5625</link>
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		<title>Atomically precise placement of dangling bonds on silicon surface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nanotechnology researchers in London have used a scanning tunneling microscope to create atomically precise quantum states from dangling bonds on a silicon surface.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5618</link>
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		<title>RNA-protein motor for unidirectional movement of DNA in nanomachinery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revolution of DNA around a central channel, rather than rotation, is the method used by a viral molecular motor to package DNA. A structure facilitating bottom-up assembly may lead to roles in nanotechnology for these nanomotors.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5614</link>
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		<title>Nanotechnology revolution: An interview with Eric Drexler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In anticipation of Eric Drexler’s new book, Forbes contributor Bruce Dorminey interviews him about the meaning of nanotechnology and its revolutionary prospects. Selected excerpt: … In what fields would APM cause the most pronounced economic disruption and the collapse of global supply chains to more local chains? The digital revolution had far-reaching effects on information [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5607</link>
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		<title>Re-engineering a junction to give a new twist to DNA nanotechnology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By forcing the geometry of the junctions upon which DNA nanotechnology depends, researchers have increased the collection of 2D and 3D structures that they can build to include wire frames and mesh structures.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5602</link>
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		<title>New advancement in 3D imaging of nanoparticles at atomic resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Researchers from UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute and Northwestern University have combined multiple imaging techniques to produce high quality 3D images of platinum nanoparticles, allowing advanced visualization of atomic-scale structural defects (an important advancement over X-ray crystallography). The original 2012 work, published in Nature and posted by Jim Lewis here, used electron tomography to study 10-nm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=5582</link>
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