a blog by the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology
When you hear “copper,” is the first thing that comes to your mind “medicine”? Probably not. You likely think of pennies (which are actually composed of mostly zinc here in the US), or maybe you think of wiring and conductors for electronics. But, believe it or not, copper has had a long history of medicinal …
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“I want to ingest nanogold as an experiment to see if it really does turn your brain into a hyper processor.” - question submitted by a Sustainable Nano reader As a chemist, I cringe at the thought of drinking nanoparticles (or anything) out of a beaker in lab. In fact, my knee-jerk response to your …
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