2008 JUL 7 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "The advent of the new nanotechnologies has been heralded by government, media, and many in the scientific community as the next big thing," investigators in the United States report.

  "Within the agricultural sector research is underway on a wide variety of products ranging from distributed intelligence in orchards, to radio frequency identification devices, to animal diagnostics, to nanofiltered food products. But the nano-revolution (if indeed there is a revolution at all) appears to be taking a turn quite different from the biotechnology revolution of two decades ago," wrote L. Busch and colleagues, Michigan State University ...read more

  2008 MAR 31 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study hydrogen effects on nanovoid nucleation at nickel grain boundaries using an embedded atom method (EAM) potential. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations were performed to introduce hydrogen atoms in low-angle and high-angle symmetrical [00 1] tilt boundaries at 300 K for analysis of plasticity and nanovoid nucleation," scientists in the United States report ...read more

  2008 MAR 24 - (VerticalNews.com) -- According to recent research published in the New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research, "Experiments were conducted to compare the efficacy of montmorillonite (M) and montmorillonite nanocomposite (MN) to reduce the toxicity of aflatoxin (AF) in growing/finishing pigs. A total of 144 weaned pigs were assigned to six dietary treatment groups (0 g of adsorbents and 0 mg of AF/kg feed; 3 g of M/kg feed; 3 g of MN/kg feed; 0.11 mg of AF/kg feed; 0.11 mg of AF plus 3 g of M/kg feed; and 0.11 mg of AF plus 3 g of MN/kg feed). ...read more