i would aprreciate it if you could send a package containing more nanoshells and nanotechnolgoy information into my email inbox, or the website i have given, is not in use anymore.

It makes you wonder why scientific journals aren't open source yet…if it were free, and everyone had access to the documents, we'd be achieving even faster progress than we are already.

As far as the article is concerned, I think it's just the standard 'nanoscale' technology that really has no significance in the big picture. True Nanotechnology, will be both nanoscale AND rely mostly on quantum mechanics (since it is the only set of rules we have at the moment that can accurately predict the behavior of atoms and molecules at both the nano and pico scale levels) – something which is not being done with the currently hyped 'nanotechnology'.

When we see claimed Nanotechnology that uses something other than electrons to gain power, such as bio-energy, light, or even tachyon energy, then we won't even have to dispute what category it falls under. All of the current 'nanotechnology', however, is just 'nano-scale' – it doesn't matter if the likes of Intel are at the 65 nm scale…it's not Nanotechnology…at least, not in the ways it's envisioned.

It looks as if this is related to the work by C. Loo et al. [Nanoshell-enabled photonics-based imaging and therapy of cancer]. Unfortunately they fail to specify the size of the particles or how the "nanoshells" are manufactured. Without that information it is impossible to determine whether or not the use of the "nano-…" terms are correct or are being abused.

I have two problems with this… (1) I'm not about to pay $50.00 for a PDF of the document to get the details from "tcrtonline"; and (2) when the heck will the nano-ice-cream based on nanosphere fat molecules encapsulating nanoscale flavor molecules be available during the treatment of cancer using said nanoshells?

Robert