Best Nanotechnology
The Lycurgus Cup is a fourth-century Roman glass vessel in the British Museum, made as an openwork cage cup depicting the mythical king Lycurgus entangled by vines. Its glass appears green in reflected light but red when light passes through it, an effect produced by minute particles of gold and sil...
Neal Stephenson’s *The Diamond Age* presents a complex near-future narrative set in a technologically advanced London reminiscent of Victorian England. The novel examines profound questions about education, social stratification, and the potential consequences of nanotechnology. It follows Matreyos,...
Nano Machine is a South Korean martial-arts web novel by Hanjung Wolya, whose protagonist receives futuristic nanotechnology in an ancient clan struggle.
Richard Smalley was an American chemist whose research fundamentally shaped the field of nanotechnology. He co-discovered buckminsterfullerene, a novel form of carbon with significant potential applications. His work on “sixten” – a method for creating precisely shaped carbon nanotubes – revolutioni...
Crusade premiered in 1999 as a spin-off of Babylon 5, unfolding five years after the film *A Call to Arms*. The series is situated in 2267 and focuses on humanity’s response to a Drakh-engineered nanovirus threatening global extinction. The Excalibur undertakes a mission to locate a potential cure f...
Blood Music is a 1985 science fiction novel by Greg Bear, expanded from his 1983 novella of the same name which won the Nebula Award. The story follows a rogue geneticist named Vergil Ulam who injects himself with bio-computers called noocytes when his lab threatens to destroy his research. These ce...
Harold Kroto was a British chemist whose research fundamentally altered our understanding of carbon materials. He spearheaded the discovery of fullerenes—spherical molecules composed entirely of carbon—alongside Robert Huffman and Richard Smalley. This groundbreaking work earned him the 1996 Nobel P...
Robert Curl was an American academic chemist renowned for his pioneering research in nanotechnology and molecular chemistry. His significant contribution involved co-discovering fullerene molecules – allotropes of carbon arranged into spherical shapes. This discovery earned him a share of the 1996 N...
