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nanotimes Editor‘s Letter

11-02/03 :: February / March 2011

the CEO of one of the biggest consulting companies asked why so far no firm had introduced a wristwatch with an integrated Geiger Mueller counter. In Moscow, many even older women wear Geiger counter at the vegetable market because they are facing the risk of buying “Chernobyl vegetables”. Confidence in governmental supervision is a thing of the past.

When doing my research on radioactive waste disposal I discovered, inter alia, the U.S. company TerraPower [ http://www.terrapower.com]. Using a TerraPower‘s traveling wave reactor (TWR), an 8-metric-ton canister of depleted uranium could generate 25 million megawatt-hours of electricity – en- ough to power 2.5 million U.S. households for one year. And, most importantly, they have a solution for all the waste.

Further hot topics in this issue are the fabrication of a prototype substrate that can cool electronic devices such as a laptop computer twice as well as copper [8], P2i’s revolutionary liquid repellent nano-coating technology for consumer electronics [35], nanocomposite for high-capacity hydrogen storage [57], the creation of an organic nanoparticle that is completely non-toxic, biodegradable [70], and the development of a silver nanoparticle-coated paper [70].

Thomas Ilfrich