So today we learned how they’re using nano-technology in medicine. One nanometer is equal to one billionth of a meter. Did you know the nose can smell 25 parts per million in the air? We also went into quantum dots again which is clusters of semi-conductors, single oxcitation, and multi-color emission. If its 2nm then the color would be blue where as if it were 7nm it would be red. The color is directly dependent on nm.
I also learned about vaults today which is made of three proteins; major vault protein, TEP1 VPARP, and RNA. They’re found in our blood cells and have yet to find a reason for them. They’re like hallow capsules and scientists are thinking of possibly being able to put medicine and transport it in them since the body is already familiar with it. They have also been able to create vaults but without the other two components, just the MVP gene. They would put it in the infected piece of DNA, insert that into insect cells, which then makes lots of MVP, and then they just self assemble. The uses for these vaults are therapeutic, biological sensors, and nano.
Then we learned bout silver and how its a natural bacterial killer. I thought the video we saw was pretty cute and the experiment the two kids were simple yet showed pretty good results. On the market are silver infused Band-Aids, and socks to stop the odor. The experiment they did found it false to reduce/eliminate odor but it did kill the bacteria.
The ending i thought was the coolest. They had lab suits that repelled liquids that were spilled on it. I’d seen the business suits they have with that kinda technology but it was the first time in person. That was pretty cool but if the liquid stayed too long in a particular spot it would eventually go through the material.
http://www.foresight.org/Nanomedicine/
http://www.nseresearch.org/2003/NewFiles/Over03_NIRT_UCLA.pdf
http://www.nano-silver.com/
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2006/12/07/nano_silver_kills_microbes_epa_up_in_arms.htm
http://www.nanooze.org/english/articles/nanoquest_fabrics.html
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