Chemical engineering includes creating substances and materials via chemical methods, including developing apparatus, systems, and procedures for purifying and manufacturing chemicals. Chemical ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Humanity's efforts to modify food plants is as old as farming itself, some 10,000 years. Before genetic engineering became possible, farmers have used simple selection inter- and ...

Nanotechnology is a science that deals with materials having at least one of its dimensions in nanoscale. At this scale, nanomaterials are not bulky and mostly comprise a surface, which means most of ...

A NASA engineer has achieved yet another milestone in his quest to advance an emerging super-black nanotechnology that promises to make spacecraft instruments more sensitive without enlarging their ...

How nanoscale engineering gave China control of the green energy value chain, from rare earth processing and solar ...

The term nanotechnology itself dates back to the 1980s when it was coined by U.S. engineer Eric Drexler. In the past few decades, nanotech has found a steadily growing number of applications in ...

Flasks of quantum dots fluorescing at the Nobel Prize announcement. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Quantum dots brilliantly fluoresce: They absorb one color of light and reemit it nearly ...