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Maria O’Brien writes:

Last December you showed some cool images from Prof. Georg Duesberg’s group of atomically thin nano Christmas trees.The research centre I work in (CRANN/AMBER) in TCD recently announced the winners of its annual scientific image competition, which highlights some of interesting nanomaterials research going on in Dublin and the rest of Ireland.

Above: Space Invaders by Niall McEvoy; Nano-sun by Damien Hanlon; Bird’s Nest Stadium by Xiaoyun (Lily) He and Lab Slave I, by Maria O’Brien

Previously: NaNoël

 

About three years ago Ross Technology Group, which makes steel products, was looking for an effective way to reduce corrosion. When they couldn’t buy one, their subsidiary, Ross Nanotechnology, came up with their own: NeverWet, a superhydrophobic spray-on silicon coating that is clearly the work of the devil.

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