The Tiniest Inventions: Nanotechnology
By Kara Miller
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Printed on a sheet of paper is a flexible, foldable array of solar cells. Guest Vladimir Bulovic helped develop the technology. (via MIT News)
A nanometer is pretty small — 100,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
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| A virus-built battery engineered by Angela Belcher. (via MIT Press) |
So, what difference could it possibly make to us? Maybe quite a lot.
This week, we dive into the teeny, tiny world of nanotechnology — and find out from those on the cutting edge if it could fundamentally alter and improve our lives.
Guests:
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Angela Belcher, professor of energy, MIT; head, Biomolecular Materials Group, MIT
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Vladimir Bulovic, professor of electrical engineering, MIT; and director, Microsystems Technology Labs at MIT
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Brent Segal, chief technologist, Lockheed Martin Nanosystems
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Kara Miller
As a radio host, Kara Miller has interviewed thinkers from E.J. Dionne to Howard Gardner, Deepak Chopra to Lani Guinier. She is a panelist on WGBH-TV's "Beat the Press," as well as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, The National Journal, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, and The International Herald Tribune.
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