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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 15:57:40 GMT -5
www.softmatter-nnl.it/Welcome This is the website of the Soft Matter Nanotechnology Group of the National Nanotechnology Laboratory of INFM-CNR. Our efforts focus on micro- and nanotechnologies applied to soft matter, polymers, fluids and biomolecules through a highly interdisciplinary research program. We aim at the elucidation of the basic structural, rheological, fluidic, and optoelectronic properties of soft and plastic materials, the implementation of novel methods for patterning molecules and enhancing their functionality, and the realization and development of devices relying on organic building blocks. Controlling and manipulating organic systems at nanoscale is the key feature of the Converging Sciences Approach, merging organic materials science, advanced lithographies, nanophotonics and electronics, microfluidics, regenerative medicine, and biomimesis, for fundamental studies and innovative processes, devices, and applications. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS ON LINK ABOVE the fibers speak for themselves in the blue/black photo and the one labeled biomimetics is the same orange colored web material that I have found on my bedsheets in the morning. Under the scope, it looks the same as the photo. humph! aqt
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:23:23 GMT -5
Organic molecular nanotechnology (Nanowerk Spotlight) The vision of revolutionary bottom-up nanotechnology is based on a concept of molecular assembly technologies where nanoscale materials and structures self-assemble to microscale structures and finally to macroscopic devices and products. We are a long way from realizing this vision but researchers are busily laying the foundation for nanoscale engineering. Assembling nanoscopic components into macroscopic materials is an appealing goal but one of the enormous difficulties lies in bridging approximately six orders of magnitude that separate the nanoscale from the macroscopic world. Until machinery capable of automated and industrial-scale nano-assembly can be built, the parallelism of chemical synthesis and self-assembly is necessary when controlling materials at the nanoscale. An obvious direct approach to molecular nanotechnology therefore is to start with organic molecules as building blocks. Modest from the viewpoint of molecular manufacturing visionaries, but quite fascinating to a lot of scientists, research into nanofibers, as a modification of organic crystals, is making good progress. New research results coming out of Denmark offer the basis for a novel organic-molecule-based nanotechnological concept that allows for a multitude of applications in fundamental research and in device applications. Essentially, this concept is based on three steps: 1) directed self-assembled surface growth of nanofibers from functionalized molecules; 2) transfer and manipulation of individual fibers as well as of ordered arrays; and 3) device integration. www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=4343.php
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:26:56 GMT -5
"Work in our group has allowed us to overcome the previous obstacles of growing molecular nanowires – namely the controlled growth of crystallites of predefined shapes and predefined mutual orientations and their transfer onto more complicated target substrates" Dr. Horst-Günther Rubahn tells Nanowerk ."The result is an organic molecular nanotechnology that allows for the generation of mutually aligned, morphologically well-defined light-emitting organic nanofibers from functionalized molecules, essentially bridging the gap between the nanoscopic and microscopic worlds. Our nanofibers can be transferred easily and destruction-free as individual entities or in a massive parallel fashion onto pre-structured target substrates. Due to their crystalline perfection and due to the morphological control, organic nanofibers are perfectly suited for fundamental studies of optics, mechanics, and electronics on the mesoscale. Applications as passive and active elements in printed all-optical chips are within reach." www.nanowerk.com/spotlight/spotid=4343.php
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:36:42 GMT -5
www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117888970/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0Abstract A new route to bottom-up organic nanotechnology is presented. Molecular building blocks with specific optoelectronic properties are designed and grown via directed self-assembly arrays of morphologically controlled light-emitting organic nanofibers on template surfaces. The fibers can be easily transferred from the growth substrate to device platforms either as single entities or as ordered arrays. Due to the extraordinary flexibility in the design of their optoelectronic properties they serve as key elements in next-generation nanophotonic devices
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:46:22 GMT -5
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:47:56 GMT -5
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:54:30 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicle_(biology)Vesicle A vesicle is a bubble of liquid within a cell. More technically, a vesicle is a small, intracellular, membrane-enclosed sac that stores or transports substances within a cell. Vesicles form naturally because of the properties of lipid membranes (see micelle). Most vesicles have specialized functions depending on what materials they contain. Because vesicles tend to look alike, it is very difficult to tell the difference between different types of vesicles without sampling their contents. The vesicle is separated from the cytosol by at least one phospholipid bilayer. If there is only one phospholipid bilayer, they are called unilamellar vesicles; otherwise they are called multilamellar. (Lamella means membrane). Vesicles store, transport, or digest cellular products and waste. The membrane enclosing the vesicle is similar to that of the plasma membrane, and vesicles can fuse with the plasma membrane to release their contents outside of the cell. Vesicles can also fuse with other organelles within the cell. Because it is separated from the cytosol, the inside of the vesicle can be made to be different from the cytosolic environment. For this reason, vesicles are a basic tool used by the cell for organizing cellular substances. Vesicles are involved in metabolism, transport, buoyancy control[1], and enzyme storage. They can also act as chemical reaction chambers. HYDROPHILIC HEAD//////HYDROPHOBIC TAIL JUST LIKE MFROMCANADA'S VIDEOS...!!!!!! not 2 seperate types..just head vs tail. aqt
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 17:56:09 GMT -5
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Post by aqt on Jan 22, 2010 18:01:02 GMT -5
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Post by skyship on Jan 22, 2010 21:57:33 GMT -5
This must be part of the organic models they made. Tiny vampires. From this seems to come the nano organic/inorganic somewhere between microbe and nano. the micobiologists! Excellent finds here, aqt, Looks like part of the process is a camera, lithography, is tunneled into the body, then the light is used to light up our insides, which then like the bats, our body produces more cells due to the lighted photon itself. But, an organic model, as Tam Tam says was made first, to show what could be mimicked from inorganic materials. The new alchemy science, which we should have been taught long time ago, however, the bottom up approach is spontaneous, the top down is not. So appears the bottom up approach is what we need to center on. Top down evidently created the tools to work inside the body, the chips, the tunnel nanoscopes, lithography photons LIGHts ACTION CAMERA. then the transferase is easy knowing where it has to go. These tools evidently were created by those in Evolving genes and proteins groups. First they had to learn all parts connecting parts bridges, etc in body that makes body work. Oxygen spark of life, base is iron? filament of life from iron, in clay, in dust, dust of meteorites, dna in meteorites, just add water fluid, so they could go into the microfluidic device making. But, the filament of life had to be there, the tau filament? Like precursors to the nano alcheMAemblers. tinyurl.com/yz7zaljskyship
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Post by skyship on Jan 22, 2010 22:06:38 GMT -5
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Post by skyship on Jan 22, 2010 22:09:10 GMT -5
ZnO vs ZnS ..."To effectively absorb light, materials must have band gaps which match the distribution of photons that pass through the earth’s atmosphere, from the sun." www.lbl.gov/CS/Archive/news121407.htmlskyship
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Post by skyship on Jan 22, 2010 23:29:17 GMT -5
From the Moon: The next chapter dives right into the Lunar Mineralogy. One thing to remember is the context and nature of the sample sites - Apollo 11 was a mare, and Apollo 12 was mare with some hills in the area. The rocks that were returned boiled down into three main categories: Major (>10%): Pyroxene [(Ca, Fe, Mg)2Si2O6], Plagioclase [(Ca, Na) (Al, Si)4O8], and Ilmenite [FeTiO3] Minor (1-10%): Olivine [(Mg, Fe)2SiO4], Cristobalite [Isometric SiO2], Tridymite [Hexagonal SiO2], and a surprise, Pyroxferroite [CaFe6(SiO3)7] Accessory (<1%): lots of stuff, including more surprises like Armalcolite [(Fe, Mg)Ti2O5] Of the major elements, the Pyroxene breaks down mainly into titanium and aluminum-rich augites and ferroaugites. What are augites you ask? Well thanks to Wikipedia we know that “Augite is a single chain inosilicate mineral described chemically as (Ca,Mg,Fe)SiO3 or calcium magnesium iron silicate” Pyroxferroite was one of several surprises for scientists. Here on Earth, Pyroxmangite is a manganese silicate with some ferrous iron (and a lovely pink color). On the Moon, pyroxferroite is a ferrous silicate with some manganese, but with an identical structure to pyroxmangite. It was found mainly in vuggy areas of the rocks, which leads to the question ‘what are vessicles and vugs?’ lunarglassgascavity.jpg Well, just like your soda, which is bottled under pressure, lava under the surface is under pressure from all the rocks above. Gases will be present, but diffused in the lava. When it erupts into the extremely low pressure environment of the Lunar surface, the gases start to bubble out, just like the carbon dioxide in your soda when you crack the seal. At the same time, the lava is cooling and hardening, so you’re left with solidified holes and partial holes. When the surface of the hole is smooth, it’s a vessicle. When it’s rough and bumpy with projecting crystals, it’s a vug. All kinds of accessory minerals, often found in trace quantities, are then noted, from Troilite to Armalcolite, a new mineral named in honor of ARMstrong, ALdrin, and COLlins. Summing things up, the authors note that: “Lunar mineralogy as now known, while not extensive, is extremely interesting. It is clearly analogous to that of terrestrial basalts but reflects an extension into chemical compositions and physiochemical conditions of crystalization unknown in terrestrial rocks.” www.outofthecradle.net/archives/2009/07/review-the-lunar-rocks/skyship pyroxene?
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Post by aqt on Jan 23, 2010 15:58:54 GMT -5
There's the bridge..pyroxene en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyroxeneIt is comprised of electrolytes and chemicals already found in the human body naturally, anyway. where X represents calcium, sodium, iron+2 and magnesium and more rarely zinc, manganese and lithium and Y represents ions of smaller size, such as chromium, aluminium, iron+3, magnesium, manganese, scandium, titanium, vanadium and even iron+2).The chain silicate structure of the pyroxenes offers much flexibility in the incorporation of various cations and the names of the pyroxene minerals are primarily defined by their chemical compositionbridging the gap//organic vs inorganic when the inorganic is comprised of the same materials as the organic.. won't be recognized by the immune system if it is comprised of things like calcium, sodium zinc ect... they "belong" in the human body..the immune system won't try to "kill" them, right? evading the immune system...part of the puzzle Pyroxene minerals Clinopyroxenes (monoclinic) Aegirine (Sodium Iron Silicate) Augite (Calcium Sodium Magnesium Iron Aluminium Silicate) Clinoenstatite (Magnesium Silicate) Diopside (Calcium Magnesium Silicate, CaMgSi2O6) Esseneite (Calcium Iron Aluminium Silicate) Hedenbergite (Calcium Iron Silicate) Jadeite (Sodium Aluminium Silicate) Jervisite (Sodium Calcium Iron Scandium Magnesium Silicate) Johannsenite (Calcium Manganese Silicate) Kanoite (Manganese Magnesium Silicate) Kosmochlor (Sodium Chromium Silicate) Namansilite (Sodium Manganese Silicate) Natalyite (Sodium Vanadium Chromium Silicate) Omphacite (Calcium Sodium Magnesium Iron Aluminium Silicate) Petedunnite (Calcium Zinc Manganese Iron Magnesium Silicate) Pigeonite (Calcium Magnesium Iron Silicate) Spodumene (Lithium Aluminium Silicate) Orthopyroxenes (orthorhombic) Hypersthene (Magnesium Iron Silicate) Donpeacorite, (MgMn)MgSi2O6 Enstatite, Mg2Si2O6 Ferrosilite, Fe2Si2O6 Nchwaningite (Hydrated Manganese Silicate) aqt
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