MIT News: Nanoscience and nanotechnologyNanoscience and nanotechnology headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office.Beyond jewelry: Engineering new uses for gold- August 22, 2008 The glitter of gold may hold more than just beauty, or so says a team of MIT researchers that is working on ways to use tiny gold rods to fight cancer, deliver drugs and more. But first they must overcome one major difficulty: the rods' surface.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nanorod-0822.html MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries- August 20, 2008 Forget 9-volts, AAs, AAAs or D batteries: The energy for tomorrow's miniature electronic devices could come from MIT-developed microbatteries that are about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses.http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/virus-battery-0820.html |