All posts by Carl Batt

Glucose sensing tattoo

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Scientists from the University of California-San Diego have developed a tattoo that can monitor your glucose levels.  Monitoring glucose is important for maintaining health in individuals with diabetes.  The flexible tattoo is able to measure the glucose levels through the skin using an enzyme ... Read More...

Apple solar panels

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There are lots of solar panel systems being installed to take advantage of advances in the conversion of sunlight to electricity.  In the next issue of Nanooze we write about how nanotechnology is making solar power more efficient---the more efficiently we can covert light into ... Read More...

FDA issues rules on nano

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Nanotechnology can offer lots of solutions to many of today's challenges.  In the world of medicine, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for regulating medicine and medical devices in the US.  The FDA has recently adopted three standards for things like particle size distribution, ... Read More...

Splitting water

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You can spit water but you can also split water.  The splitting of water is important because when you split H2O you get two molecules of hydrogen and one molecule of oxygen.  Both are important and hydrogen can be used as a fuel.  Unlike solar ... Read More...