UN reports Global Investments in Green Energy Up Nearly a Third to US$211 billion

Wind farms in China and small-scale solar panels on rooftops in Europe were largely responsible for last year’s 32% rise in green energy investments worldwide according to the latest annual report on renewable energy investment trends issued by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Last year, investors pumped a record US$211 billion into renewables – about …

Read more

Chemists Create DNA Assembly Line to Make Eight Different Products from Three Different Gold Nanoparticles

Ad Support : Nano Technology   Netbook    Technology News    Computer Software Chemists at New York University and China’s Nanjing University have created a DNA assembly line that has the potential to create novel materials efficiently on the nanoscale. “An industrial assembly line includes a factory, workers, and a conveyor system,” said NYU Chemistry Professor Nadrian Seeman, the …

Read more

NanoEngineer-1 software for CAD/CAM with structural DNA

Sample of designs using structural DNA H/T to Foresight Nanorex will be announcing the first public release of Nano-Engineer 1 at their evening workshop on April 24. NanoEngineer-1 (NE1), the world’s first 3D CAD/CAM program for structural DNA nanotechnology (SDN) research and education. NE1 can generate atomistic models of DNA structures from NE1 reduced models. …

Read more