(CNN) Cleaning robots, temperature checks and antimicrobial coatings could soon become synonymous with airport trips.

Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) has provided a glimpse into what international airport procedures might look like once we're traveling again, and a lot of disinfection technologies are involved.

The busy Asia airport claims it's the first in the world to trial a live operation of CLeanTech, a full-body disinfection booth.

The short, but thorough, process sees those passing through undertake a temperature check before entering a small booth for the 40-second disinfection and sanitizing procedures.

According to the airport authority, the inside of the facility contains an antimicrobial coating that can remotely kill any viruses and/or bacteria found on clothing, as well as the body, by using photocatalyst advances along with "nano needles."

'Instant disinfection'

Hong Kong International Airport is trialing CLeanTech, a full-body disinfection facility.

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The individual is also sprinkled with sanitizing spray for "instant disinfection" inside the booth, which is kept under negative pressure, an isolation technique used in hospitals and medical centers, to prevent cross-contamination.

While CLeanTech is at present only being used on staff who undertake public health and quarantine duties for passenger arrivals, the fact that it's being trialed at one of the world's busiest airports suggests facilities like this may be used more widely in the near future.

However, it's worth noting that, as this system aims to disinfect a person's clothes and skin externally, it may not be effective when it comes to detecting those already infected with coronavirus who are not displaying any symptoms.

Along with CLeanTech, the airport authority is also testing antimicrobial coating that will see an invisible coating which destroys all germs, bacteria and viruses being applied at all passenger facilities at Hong Kong International Airport.

This includes handles and seats, smart check-in kiosks and check-in counters, baggage trolleys and elevator buttons.

Once the trial is complete in May, a decision will be made on whether this measure will be implemented permanently.

Along with this, autonomous cleaning robots are being used to continuously disinfect public areas and passenger facilities at HKIA.

Intelligent Sterilization Robot

The Intelligent Sterilization Robot, which is kitted with ultraviolet light sterilizer and air sterilizer, maintains the public toilets, as well as crucial operating areas within the terminal building.

"Although air traffic has been impacted by the pandemic, the AA spares no effort in ensuring that the airport is a safe environment for all users.

"We will continue to look into new measures to enhance our cleaning and disinfection work."

HKIA is one of several aviation bodies to announce it's stepping up safety procedures due to the coronavirus crisis.

The company has confirmed to CNN that airlines are already showing interest in both designs and they're currently going through the engineering design steps.

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Suprajit is a growth oriented company which also shows considerable caution when needed. Suprajit had bagged Rs.40 Cr contract for Tata Nano in 2010, beating 5 other competitors. Accordingly it bought land in Sanand to supply to Tata Nano factory. However, Tata Nano did not scale up, and Suprajit simply supplied from its plant in Vapi. Finally, in 2015-16 the company made its factory in Sanand, to cater to its own needs.

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Only a small over 50% of children enrolled in schools in India make it to 12th Class

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THE empty streets have become the new normal during the COVID-19 pandemic. The whole world has come to a sudden halt. The outbreak of COVID-19 has created a worldwide health catastrophe that has a deep impact on the way we perceive our world and our day to day lives. Not only the rate of contagion and patterns of transmission threatens our sense of agency, but the safety measures put in place to contain the spread of the virus also require social distancing by abstaining from doing what is naturally human, which is to find comfort in the company of others.

There are round about ten nuclear-powered nations & expenditure amounting to $1.8 trillion on the military by the whole world to fight against each other yet they are failing to tackle a nano-micron sized organism.

Healthcare workers are on the front line of the pandemic outbreak response with limited PPEs and as such are exposed to hazards that put them at threat of infection. These hazards include pathogen contact, extended working hours, psychological agony and fatigue. Self-isolation and quarantine have precipitated depression and anxiety among people. People are away from their loved ones, dispossessed of personal liberties, and altered routine and livelihood. This is leading to frustration, boredom, low mood, and potentially depression. Anxiety is also rising at an alarming rate from fear of contagion and scarce clarity around social distancing guidelines, often made worse by less reliable media sources creating confusion and fear-mongering. Prolonged isolation and stress from the pandemic can affect people differently. It could put a strain on families, make those feel isolated who living alone and threaten peoples sense of purpose by keeping them off from work and those who are experiencing financial uncertainty in the middle of the pandemic have added stress that is difficult to resolve. Despite those differences, the experience of staying home together through a pandemic can be considered a collective mental disturbance.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected almost every sector & among those badly hit sectors is education. Education is a constitutional right in India, but its provision falls beneath the satisfactory standards. Lack of education is a primary problem in India, and the Indian government schools are a clear picture of this. The infrastructure of schools is in a pathetic state and a lot of school teachers are not properly qualified, with 31% of them not having a degree. About 40% of schools are without electricity. Only a small over 50% of children enrolled in schools in India make it to 12th Class. Less than half of them enter higher educational institutes. By and large, only those students who can afford posh private coaching advance through the entrance tests to the popular engineering and medical colleges.

When the whole world is trying to impart education through online mediums India is lagging way behind in this race. It is the time when India should try investing in the educational sector & promote online education which will eventually help masses of students. Diversity of online study material in the form of videos and texts will encourage students to adopt online education platforms & online courses at UG or PG level are much more affordable than traditional programs.

The pace at which the economic shockwaves from the plague has hit developing countries is dramatic. The COVID-19 crumple of the global economy is prompting comparisons with earlier major economic adjustments at the time of World War II. Globalisation has made countries inter-dependent to some extent & by closing borders completely, the world is deprived of goods and products that were produced by countries together, therefore, hurting economies and worsening unemployment situation. There are round about ten nuclear-powered nations & expenditure amounting to $1.8 trillion on the military by the whole world to fight against each other yet they are failing to tackle a nano-micron sized organism. Now, will 13,890 nuclear warheads help any of the nations out there or will there be anyone left on this planet to use them? This pandemic is exposing each and every fault in the working of governments, International bodies & Organisations like UN/WHO/ILO.

Talking about Indias economy it was already in decline due to the recession in the automobile sector & this pandemic is adding nails to the coffin. The impact of COVID-19 has mostly been felt across sectors such as logistics, auto, tourism, metals, electronic goods, MSMEs and retail. The Demand & Supply chain is also affected to the worst extent, as a result, India is suffering huge inefficiencies of working capital, which is tied up in stock/inventory that is probably in the wrong place at the wrong time. Also, India is facing losses in income to parallel trade, counterfeiting, and other reliability intimidation, and a lack of adaptableness to shifts in demand or conditions.

In the moment of dire mental trauma world is going through something which needs to be addressed with diligent care. Even after the pandemic is over it will leave its traces over the global economies which will take round about at least five to six years to overcome the trade depression post COVID-19 pandemic. It is the high time for organisations like United Nations, World Health Organisation, International Labour Organisation and all the countries over the globe to come & work together for the betterment of humankind. In the future the amounts spent by countries on defence should be temporarily stopped and those funds should be diverted into healthcare & in the development of trade & commerce.

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In 2018, the market size of Graphene Market is million US$ and it will reach million US$ in 2025, growing at a CAGR of from 2018; while in China, the market size is valued at xx million US$ and will increase to xx million US$ in 2025, with a CAGR of xx% during forecast period.

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For top companies in United States, European Union and China, this report investigates and analyzes the production, value, price, market share and growth rate for the top manufacturers, key data from 2014 to 2018.

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The following manufacturers are covered:2-DTech LimitedACS MaterialNanoinnova TechnologiesXG ScienceNano X ploreThomas SwanAngstron MaterialsUnited Nano-TechnologiesCambridge NanosystemsAbalonyxPerpetuus Advanced MaterialsGranpheneaNing Bo Mo Xi TechnologyThe New Hong MstarSixth Element TechnologyGroup Tangshan JianhuaDeyang Carbon TechnologyJining Leader Nano TechnologyBeijing Carbon Century Technology

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Segment by TypeGraphene PowderGraphene OxideGraphene Film

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Chapter 12, Graphene market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2018 to 2024.

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When you hear the word asphalt, you probably imagine the black tar stuff on roads and highways, right? But that's not exactly correct.

"Asphalt is the liquid that is in the road," says J. Richard Willis, Ph.D., vice president for engineering, research and technology at the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), who has a doctorate in asphalt design and construction. "It's the binding agent that kind of holds the rocks together." Asphalt comes from crude oil, while tar comes from coal.

Asphalt also is found naturally in the earth, and there are lakes of it where oil from underground has risen to the surface, like the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and Pitch Lake in Trinidad, which is the largest natural deposit of asphalt in the world.

But the most common way the binder is made today is through the oil refining process. Asphalt is the heaviest of materials in a barrel of oil; it's basically the waste product.

"Asphalt is the heavy residue that settles to the bottom," Willis says. It cannot be used for energy, so it takes on new life as the sticky stuff that holds materials together. Combined with various amounts and types of rocks and other substances, it eventually becomes the mixture we drive on. The road is really an asphalt mixture or better termed "asphalt pavement."

All the talk of oil refining may make asphalt sound like a relatively modern invention, but the first recorded use of asphalt in a road was in Babylon in 615 B.C.E.; asphalt and burned brick were used to pave a procession street during the reign of King Nabopolassar, according to the NAPA. The Romans used it to seal structures like baths and aqueducts. When English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh turned up at Pitch Lake in Trinidad in 1595, he used the asphalt for caulking his ships.

"It's been used in other non-road functions throughout history," Willis says. Using it as a binder in roads became more common in the 1800s. John Loudon McAdam, who built the Scottish turnpike, added hot tar to reduce dust and maintenance on roads. This method also improved driving conditions.

In the United States, bituminous mixtures (asphalt concrete) first appeared in the 1860s, and the first "true asphalt pavement" was laid in Newark in 1870 by Edmund J. DeSmedt, a Belgian, according to NAPA. It was modeled after a natural pavement highway in France. DeSmedt then paved Washington, D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue with asphalt from Trinidad, further proving its durability.

Enterprising chemists and inventors soon filed patents for different blends of asphalt mixtures, which appeared under a variety of names. As the industry grew, cities began requiring warranties on workmanship and materials. Until the early 1900s, nearly all asphalt came from natural sources, but with the launch of the first modern asphalt facility in East Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1901 and the increase in automobiles, requests for better roads invigorated the asphalt industry. By 1907, natural asphalt production was overtaken by refined petroleum asphalt.

"People started demanding better modes of transportation," Willis explains. "The roads where people started using the asphalt to keep the rocks together held up longer than the conventional dirt road that people were used to." Driving on a gravel road versus one that was paved offered a significantly different experience. Finally, the 1956 Federal-Aid Highway Act helped transform the roads in the United States still made of packed dirt and created the 48,876-mile (78,658-kilometer) Interstate System in the U.S.

Although it's most often associated with roads, asphalt is used for many purposes, though roads account for its most extensive use. Of the more than 2.7 million miles (4.3 million kilometers) of paved roads in the U.S., 94 percent are surfaced with asphalt, according to NAPA.

Interestingly, though, all of that includes a mixture of about 95 percent stone, sand and gravel, and just 5 percent asphalt cement. Asphalt also is used for parking lots, airport runways and racetracks.

"Asphalt is a really flexible and versatile product," explains Willis. It can be used to line fishponds and water reservoirs or for sporting purposes like tennis courts. A couple of years ago, it was chosen as the base surface for the field at the Minnesota Vikings stadium in Minneapolis.

Since the early days of asphalt production, the industry has continued to innovate new products, becoming more scientific and rigorous, according to Willis.

"We've changed the way we engineer the mixes," he says. "We're at an era today where you are seeing a giant shift in how the industry and how states work." Using advanced testing methods, asphalt researchers have been aiming to improve performance. Incorporating new materials, additives and technologies, they are seeking to learn how various recipes will perform in different temperatures and climates.

One major update has been the creation of warm-mix asphalt (WMA), which reduces the production temperature of asphalt at a plant, thereby reducing energy usage and saving time in both production and road surfacing. WMA also improves working conditions with lowered exposure to fuel emissions, fumes and odors, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration. WMA is technology that did not exist in U.S. in 2002 and now accounts for about 40 percent of the market, says Willis.

Asphalt probably isn't something you think of as ecofriendly; it could be partly guilt by association because asphalt is naturally aligned with major polluters driving automobiles and oil production. And some of the negativity is warranted: Because asphalt has low reflectivity, it has been determined to be a significant contributor to the urban heat island (UHI) effect, Abbas Mohajerani, Jason Bakaric and Tristan Jeffrey-Bailey wrote in a 2017 article in the "Journal of Environmental Management." Anyone who has sat in a highway traffic jam on a hot summer day can attest to that.

As far as asphalt's contributions to the UHI, the Environmental Protection Agency states that conventional asphalt pavements can be modified with materials or treated after installation to raise reflectance. For decades, this has been sometimes implemented on surfaces like parking lots and highways. The EPA includes porous asphalt and rubberized asphalt as examples of permeable pavements.

Asphalt has also earned bad marks for being impermeable, for the gases it produces when melted and the fumes it exposes workers to during paving and roofing. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says those fumes can lead to headache, skin rash, fatigue and even skin cancer. While OSHA's standards do not specifically address asphalt fumes, the administration recommends that controlling exposure can be done through "engineering controls, administrative actions and personal protective equipment."

And of course, there's still the fact that asphalt is made from petroleum. But asphalt does have positive eco-qualities too.

"What a lot of people don't know is all of the environmentally friendly things the asphalt industry is actually doing," Willis says. For starters, asphalt is 100 percent recyclable, and more importantly, it actually does get recycled. In 2018, 82.2 million tons (74.5 million metric tons) of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) was put back into new mixes. That means every asphalt mix put down in the U.S. included about 21 percent RAP. In fact, the combined weight of all items people recycle annually in the U.S. paper, plastic and aluminum totaled a fraction of (about 68 percent) of the weight of RAP the asphalt industry recycles annually.

"That's just one material we recycle," says Willis. "We are the most active recycling industry in the country." It is also one of the biggest recyclers of tire rubber, which is used as a modifier for mixtures in some states. Roof shingles also are recycled into new asphalt mixtures, and the industry is looking into how plastic might become part of the discussion. "When people bring those questions to us, we try to find solutions."

A lot of engineering and material science goes into constructing a road. Today, asphalt roads are designed around the concept of "perpetual pavement," or at least to last 40 years or more. Routine maintenance consists of "milling" the surface taking off the top inch or so every 12 to 20 years and replacing it with a new overlay. That top inch can be recycled, and the periodic overlays "significantly improve the ride quality and fuel consumption of vehicles traveling on these roads," according to the Asphalt Pavement Alliance.

Until it's time for hover cars, asphalt roads are likely to stick around. And the industry plans to keep innovating in product and production. Willis describes recent breakthroughs like autonomous rollers and equipment, as well as the increased use of virtual reality for training.

"I see technology as a big part of the industry's future," he says. As asphalt experts get better at handling big data, they can use it for production and placement to improve efficiencies in real time. One day, he could even see intelligent pavements with nano-sensors in the roads providing feedback on how the pavement is behaving and lasting. "Our roads are going to get a lot smarter. We've got the technology to really improve the experience of the riding public."

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The presented study on the global Targeted Delivery Drugs market provides an out-and-out analysis of the overall dynamics of the Targeted Delivery Drugs market. Further, the report elaborates on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the market and the various factors that are likely to mold the growth of the Targeted Delivery Drugs market in the forthcoming decade. The underlying trends, growth prospects, restraints, and opportunities within the Targeted Delivery Drugs market are discussed in the report.

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Imran Chaudhri spent over 20 years at Apple and helped create the companys hero products like iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Now on the fifth anniversary of Apples highly successful wearable, Chaudhri has shared some neat details on the history of what went into creating the Apple Watchs faces and features.

Chaudri left Apple back in 2017 and is currently working on a company thats mostly still in stealth mode called Humane who just picked up another Apple veteran, this time its VP of product engineering.

But fondly looking back today,Chaudhri shared the fascinating details about Apple Watch on Twitter today including the original sketch of the UI, the first prototype band, and more (via TechCrunch).

Heres a shot of the Apple Watch team five years ago on launch day and a reproduction of Chaudhris original sketch for the watchOS home screen.

Another fun tidbit, the Digital Touch feature that allows users to send their heartbeat and more was called E.T. for electronic touch at first.

And below he shared a look at the first prototype strap that was used with a 6th gen iPod nano.

The loop bands that arrived for Apple Watch were inspired by the velcro speedmaster used by Apollo astronauts and that Andrew Zuckerman was who captured the butterfly Motion watch face.

Another neat fact, the Solar watch face was designed by Chaudhri to be helpful for Muslims as they observed Ramadan as well as teaching everyone about how the sun and time are connected. Hodinkee also just shared a neat article about Apple Watch and twilight.

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Left to right, top: Paul Churchland and Vicki Grassian; bottom: Margaret Leinen and David Victor. Photos courtesy of UC San Diego

Four members of the University of California San Diego community, including three professors and one vice chancellor, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciencesone of the oldest and most esteemed honorary societies in the nation.

Paul M. Churchland, Vicki H. Grassian, Margaret S. Leinen and David G. Victor are among the Academys 2020 class of 276 members. They join fellow classmates who are artists, scholars, scientists and leaders in the public, non-profit and private sectors, including: singer/activist Joan C. Baez; immunologist Yasmine Belkaid; former Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr.; author Ann Patchett and CEO and electrical engineer Lisa T. Su.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored exceptionally accomplished individuals and engaged them in advancing the public good for more than 240 years. Professor Walter Munk was the first UC San Diego faculty member elected to the Academy. Since then, 79 more have joined Munk in receiving this prestigious honor. For a relatively young institution such as ours, this speaks volumes of the innovative and visionary nature of this university and our well-respected and accomplished faculty, said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. I am proud to see the career accomplishments of these four individuals being recognized on such a distinguished national platform.

According to Academy PresidentDavid W. Oxtoby, the members of the class of 2020 have excelled in laboratories and lecture halls, amazed on concert stages and in surgical suites, and they have led in board rooms and courtrooms. Thesenew members are united by a place in history and by an opportunity to shape the future through the Academys work to advance the public good, said Oxtoby.

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Paul Churchland, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Philosophy in the Division of Arts and Humanities, is an expert in the philosophy of science, philosophy of the mind, epistemology and cognitive science, philosophy of language and the history of philosophy. At UC San Diego, Churchland held the Valtz Family Endowed Chair in Philosophy from 1984 to 2010, taught in the Department of Cognitive Science, and is currently an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for Neural Computation. One of the most distinguished theorists in the field of the neurophilosophy and the philosophy of the mind, Churchland introduced and defended an influential view known as eliminative materialism, also known as eliminativism, in his book Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind. The research published in his book Matter and Consciousness, which presents an overview of the philosophical issues regarding the mind, is a leading text in philosophy and cognitive science education. Additional published work includes Images of Science: Scientific Realism versus Constructive Empiricism, The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain and Platos Camera: How the Physical Brain Captures a Landscape of Abstract Universals.

Vicki Grassian is the Distinguished Chair of Physical Chemistry, who currently serves as the chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the Division of Physical Sciences and also as a faculty member within the Department of Nanoengineering and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She is co-director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Chemistry of the Environment (CAICE). A leader in championing the inclusion of women and underrepresented groups in the sciences, Grassian focuses her research on the chemistry of complex environmental interfaces with projects on atmospheric aerosols, geochemical interfaces, indoor surfaces that impact indoor air quality and nanomaterials in the environment. She has pioneered laboratory studies of the reactivity and physicochemical properties of mineral dust and sea spray aerosols, providing a molecular understanding of its atmospheric chemistry and global impacts. Her studies on metal and metal oxide nanoparticles have shed light on the unique surface and environmental reactivity of these materials. Grassian is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. She has received numerous awards including the 2019 William H. Nichols Medal Award for her contributions to the chemistry of environmental interfaces and the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering Award. Grassian was a distinguished member of the faculty at the University of Iowa before joining UC San Diego in 2016. She has more than 250 peer-reviewed publications in a wide range of journals.

Margaret Leinen is UC San Diegos vice chancellor for marine sciences, dean of the School of Marine Sciences and the director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Leinen is an award-winning oceanographer and an accomplished executive with extensive national and international experience in ocean science, global climate and environmental issues, federal research administration and more. Her research has focused on paleo-oceanography and paleo-climatology, specifically on ocean sediments and their relationship to global biogeochemical cycles and the history of Earths ocean and climate. Leinen currently serves on the Executive Planning Group for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. From 2016-2018, Leinen served as a U.S. Science Envoy focusing on ocean science in Latin America, East Asia and the Pacific. She is past president of the American Geophysical Union, a member of the distinguished Leadership Council of the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative and past president of The Oceanography Society. Prior to joining UC San Diego, Leinen held academic leadership positions at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, a unit of Florida Atlantic University, and the University of Rhode Island. She also served as assistant director for Geosciences and Coordinator of Environmental Research and Education at the National Science Foundation.

David Victor is the Center for Global Transformation Endowed Chair in Innovation and Public Policy and professor of international relations at the School of Global Policy and Strategy. He serves as co-director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation and UC San Diegos Deep Decarbonization Initiative. Victors research interests are in energy policy and energy marketsthe future role of natural gas, electric power market reform and rural energy development. His interdisciplinary approach to climate change research, which integrates science, technology and policy, has made him one of worlds top experts on gauging the globes progress on addressing the issue, and what countries and industries need to do collectively and individually to reduce emissions. He is a leading contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations-sanctioned international body with 195 country members. Victor is author of "Global Warming Gridlock," which explains why the world has not made much diplomatic progress on the problem of climate change while also exploring new strategies that would be more effective. Prior to joining UC San Diego, Victor served as director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, where he was a professor at Stanford Law School and taught energy and environmental law. Earlier in his career, he also directed the science and technology program at the Council on Foreign Relations and led the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Victor also serves as an adjunct professor of climate, atmospheric science and physical oceanography at UC San Diegos Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-chairs the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate. In addition, he leads the community engagement panel for decommissioning of the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.

The American Academy of Arts & Sciences was founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock and others who believed the new republic should honor exceptionally accomplished individuals and engage them in advancing the public good. The 2020 members join the company of those elected before them, including Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton in the eighteenth century; Ralph Waldo Emerson and Maria Mitchell in the nineteenth; Robert Frost, Martha Graham, Margaret Mead, Milton Friedman and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the twentieth; and more recently, Antonin Scalia, Michael Bloomberg, John Lithgow, Judy Woodruff and Bryan Stevenson. International Honorary Members include Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Laurence Olivier, Mary Leakey, John Maynard Keynes, Akira Kurosawa and Nelson Mandela.

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]]> Modern ventilation systems are finding novel uses for artificial intelligence, internet of things technology, and other innovative solutions to improve the efficiency of airflow through underground mines. Ventilation on demand

Ventilation on Demand (VOD) systems have become popular solutions for more efficient ventilation, with companies including Bestech, ABB and Simsmart offering variations of the software. VOD allows for a more intuitive ventilation system, with software capable of scheduling airflow to different parts of the mine based on a daily schedule, in response to pre-programmed events, or by tracking environmental factors or the locations of personnel and equipment throughout the mine.

These systems allegedly reduce the total air requirements of mines by directing air only to where it is needed, when it is needed and reducing energy consumption in the process.

In theory, VOD systems can be integrated with tag and tracking systems, meaning the ventilation software can locate personnel and equipment in the mine and direct airflow to areas of work as appropriate. In practice, the concept seems to be easier said than done. Innovation in VOD systems has focused on making that selling point a consistently viable reality, as a system that can automatically dictate airflow speed, temperature and direction has huge cost-cutting potential.

In February, Natural Resources Canada awarded C$1.5m ($1.07m) to the Natural Heat Exchange Engineering Technology (NHEET) research project, which is run between the Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) and other organisations including Vale, Teck and Laurentian University.

The project is examining the potential use of fractured rocks to improve cooling and air delivery in underground mines. The concept was discovered more than half a century ago at Vales Creighton nickel mine near Sudbury, Ontario, when miners realised that cool air was entering the mine through waste rock during summer, while warm air was entering during the winter. By directing the airflow through the mine, the miners could work to a depth of 2.5km without the use of artificial refrigeration.

Powering ventilation systems consumes 25-50% of the total energy requirements of an underground coal mine. If the NHEET project can successfully replicate the natural ventilation properties of the Creighton mine, it could not only displace the capital and operational costs of a refrigeration and heating system, it could reduce the overall energy consumption of mines reducing costs while also improving the environmental impact of underground mining.

Hydraulic air compressors (HACs) are an almost ancient idea from a technology standpoint, being used in mines more than 100 years ago.

Compressed air systems were most notably used as a means of power generation at mines that could not be easily connected to the existing power grid, such as the Ragged Chutes HAC system that powered silver mines in rural Ontario, Canada, more than a century ago. That system remained operational for 70 years, and only stopped operations twice for repairs in that time.

The high cost of compressed air as a resource meant that the proliferation of electrical and mechanical systems in the latter half of the 20th century resulted in compressed air becoming a non-viable resource for miners.

Now, a modern HAC designed by Electrale Innovation has modified existing air compression technology to provide cooling for underground mines. A demonstration of the HAC is operational in Sudbury, Ontario, and has received funding from the Canadian government, as well as support from mining innovators MIRARCO.

Developers on the project believe that if a natural hydropower resource can be harnessed, compressed air could be produced at almost zero marginal cost. The use of water cools the compressed air without the need for external power sources, and the hope is that the refrigerated air can be used as a low cost means of cooling and dehumidifying ultra-deep mines.

Surface-level monitoring stations can directly monitor the air quality of underground mines using real-time sensors that have the capability to be seamlessly swapped out rather than undergoing time consuming recalibration processes underground.

The Ultra-Deep Mining Network and its partners have developed sensors that can be calibrated on the surface in a stable controlled environment, before being hot swapped with the existing underground sensors.

Modern air quality sensors are touted as increasing productivity by removing the need for manual subsurface recalibration, and can hasten remedial work in the event toxic gases are detected.

Air quality stations are able to accurately monitor airflow rate and direction, gas levels, barometric pressure, and wet/dry bulb temperatures in real-time, and that information can then be used to adjust main and auxiliary ventilation fans as necessary.

Some of the technologies in this bracket are Industrial Internet of Things devices that connect directly to existing networks without requiring the addition of new equipment, resulting in efficiency boosts without large-scale refitting of existing hardware.

While dust, carbon dioxide, and toxic gases such as methane are key air quality concerns for miners, it is predominantly nitrogen dioxide emissions from diesel vehicles that drive the bulk of underground ventilation concerns. Increased uptake of electric mining vehicles could be set to change that, however.

Rapid advancement in battery technologies have led mining companies to begin replacing diesel-fuelled vehicles and drills for lithium-ion battery powered alternatives. For underground mines, electric vehicles dont just boost environmental credentials, they reduce gas and heat emissions too in turn reducing airflow requirements throughout the mine.

A 2019 report by corporate consultants BDO predicted that within four years diesel machinery will not be used in new mines in Australia, and existing mines in the country will have begun phasing them out in favour of battery electric vehicles. The report predicted that the push to electrification will come from the financiers of new mines, as well as potential government regulation as the health risks of nano diesel particulate matter become more commonly accepted.

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Students, staff and faculty address one of the key challenges of COVID-19 outbreak

Manual to automatic: A team of engineering students and faculty at Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego have developed a device to convert a manual ventilator into an automatic ventilator. This system uses 3D-printed parts to compress the bag to push air into a patients lungs.

Even as university campuses close across the nation in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, a team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego is rapidly developing simple, ready-to-use ventilators to be deployed if the need arises.

The project kick-started several weeks ago when news started to trickle in that communities in Northern Italy with widespread COVID-19 were in dire straits.

One of the biggest things we heard was that there werent enough ventilators to treat all of the patients coming into the hospitals, said James Friend, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Surgery at UC San Diego. Its clear that if were not careful, we might end up in the same situation.

Ventilators are medical devices that push air in and out of a patients lungs when they are unable to breathe on their own. One of the primary symptoms of COVID-19 is difficulty in breathing; approximately 1 percent of people who contract the virus require ventilation to support their recoverysometimes for weeks.

The situation in Italy spurred Dr. Lonnie Petersen, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego and an adjunct with UC San Diego Health, to reach out to her medical and engineering colleagues, proposing a new collaboration to quickly produce simple ventilators that could be easily built and readily used to support patients in a crisis.

We immediately had a lot of support from staff and faculty, all working to get this project off the ground, Petersen said. Our community is taking this threat very seriously and acting accordingly.

The first step was to seek consensus with anesthetists and respiratory therapists about minimum requirements for a ventilator. The next was to determine whether engineers could reasonably produce them, and how quickly.

Within days, a team of researchersfrom the Friend and Petersen labs, including graduate students Aditya Vasan, William Connacher, Jeremy Sieker and Reiley Weekes, began building devices using premade parts and 3D printers. Their first goal was to convert an existing manual ventilator model to automatic, able to provide breathing assistance without human intervention.

Engineering students and faculty are developing a simple device using 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components to convert an existing manual ventilator system into an automatic one.

The existing manual design features a mask fitted over a patients face and a bag that can be squeezed by hand to push air into the patients lungs. The team is designing a machine that can do the squeezing instead, freeing doctors and nurses to address other concerns.

Were 3D-printing parts that can be attached to a motor to compress the bag of the manual ventilator, said Ph.D. student Vasan. This allows us to control the speed and volume of the compressions to help patients breathe.

The advantage of 3D printing is that it can be used to quickly produce customized parts. Devices can be made on a small scale much faster than by traditional manufacturing methods.

As long as the correct materials are used, 3D printing can be used to produce a wide variety of tools in the fight against COVID-19, said Shaochen Chen, a professor of nanoengineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Its not good for, say, entire N95 masks, but it can be used for producing testing swabs or even face shields for healthcare workers.

Meanwhile, Petersens team is awaiting a few more parts to build a more sophisticated ventilator using an electric pump. Our aim is to have functional devices as soon as possible, she said. Once weve got the bare bones system up and running, we can start adding layers of sophistication and automation. Those additional layers will include advanced regulation of air pressure and flow to allow for a more disease-specific and patient-tailored respiratory support.

The first ventilators will be simple, but the goal is to have something readily at hand when the need arises.

But a simple design isnt the teams only goal.

We are preparing for a shortage of both ventilators and specialized staff to run them, said Petersen. The questions quickly became How can we tweak the ventilators that are available to support multiple patients? How can we create more ventilators that are easier for staff to use?

Other projects include collecting and inventorying oxygen supplies in preparation for increased demand by local hospitals; converting other air pressure machines, such as CPAPs and Bi-PAPs into ventilators; and adapting existing ventilators to serve more patients.

Dr. Sidney Merritt displays an in-house pressure measurement device, currently in testing for use on a system designed to split a single ventilator to serve up to four patients.

The team hopes to have functional prototypes within a few days and are ready to test them in simulators, in collaboration with anesthesiologists, before potentially applying to patients.

Normally, the production timeline on something like this would be months, or even years, said Petersen. By building on existing technology and taking multiple steps at once, we aim to reduce that timeline to weeks.

While grappling with challenges in locating parts that cant be 3D-printed and obtaining them from outside vendors, the biggest roadblock right now is gathering enough people to assemble the devices.

The UC San Diego campus is largely closed and empty, due to efforts to minimize coronavirus exposure and slow the spread of COVID-19. The graduate student team continues work, thanks to a special exception granted by the Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering.

This is a team effort, said Petersen. And we can use the assistance of other engineers. We would love to hear from students, staff, and faculty with hands-on engineering experience who can help us with this project.

Qualified volunteers should email: UCSDVentilatorEngHelp@gmail.com

Meanwhile, Petersens colleague Dr. Sidney Merritt, an associate clinical professor of anesthesiology at UC San Diego Health, is working with a team that includes U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin personnel to develop a 3D-printable system for splitting a ventilator designed for one patient so that it can be used by up to four patients at a time.

We found a file online that showed us how it could be done, said Merritt. Weve been working with the Navy and others to print them in different materials and test them on a ventilator, and, so far, it works. We were able to get enough pressure on each line that it should be adequate for serving four patients at a time.

The challenge now is finding valves that can regulate the pressure for each patient on the system and monitor individual air pressure for each one, allowing for the fine control needed to support each patients specific needs. As soon as we have the valves worked out, well be just a couple days out from getting them set up and running, said Merritt.

Using 3D-printed parts, Dr. Sidney Merritt and a team at the U.S. Navy and Lockheed Martin are developing a system to convert ventilators designed for a single patient to be used by up to four patients at a time.

This situation is going to be very severe, she continued. We need to have every tool available to us, so we are ready to treat patients because we still dont know how many people will get sick.

Despite obstacles, the team said it has been overwhelmed by support and advocacy from colleagues and university leadership. For example, the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) has contributed $10,000 to assist in the development of prototypes.

The UC San Diego family is really pulling together on this one, said Petersen. From the dean, through chairs, faculty and students, regardless of who weve spoken to, everyone has gone above and beyond to help with this project as much as they can. Its really bringing the community together. Everyone is moving in the same direction. While the work may be preparing for something unpleasant, its very good to be working in such a supportive environment.

Dr. Casper Petersen, an assistant project scientist in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, is co-leading this project alongside Lonnie Petersen. Other members of the continuously growing team include Dr. Daniel Lee; Dr. Preetham Suresh; Dr. William Mazzei; Dr. Matthew Follansbee; Dr. Micheal Vanietti; Dr. Hemal Patel; Theodore Vallejos of UC San Diego Health; Mark Stambaugh of the Qualcomm Institute; and Tania Morimoto, a professor in the Department of Aerospace and Engineering at the Jacobs School.

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Radio amateurs continue to play key roles in developing the electronic control system for an open-source/architecture, modular, low-cost human patient ventilator. The device itself was designed by researcher Sem Lampotang and his team at University of Florida Health the schools academic health center using such commonly available components as PVC pipe and lawn-sprinkler valves. The idea is to create a bare-bones ventilator that could serve in the event of a ventilator shortage.

The way I looked at it is, if youre going to run out of ventilators, then were not even trying to reproduce the sophisticated ventilators out there, Lampotang said. If we run out, you have to decide who gets one and who doesnt. How do you decide that? The power of our approach is that every well-intentioned volunteer who has access to Home Depot, Ace, Lowes, or their equivalent worldwide can build one.

His team is working on adding safety features to meet regulatory guidelines, then they will run engineering tests to determine safety, accuracy, and endurance of the machine, which can be built for as little as $125 to $250.

Dr. Gordon Gibby, KX4Z a retired associate professor of anesthesiology at the University of Florida and an electrical engineer is among those involved in the project, developing control-system prototypes. He reports that a trial printed circuit board is being created, populated, and tested prior to large-scale fabrication. This should lead to a documented open-source design that can be replicated or improved upon by any interested manufacturer, Gibby said, noting that the board could be built anywhere in the world, based on the Arduino Nano microcontroller.

A huge amount of work has gone on in the design of the circuit boards, Gibby told ARRL. We have at least two, maybe three designs, ready for fabrication. Current design specifications and a video of prototypes have been posted online. The Arduino-based control software will set the respiratory rate and other key parameters in treating critically ill coronavirus victims. Other radio amateurs involved in the control system aspect of the project include Jack Purdum, W8TEE, and uBITX transceiver maker Ashhar Farhan, VU2ESE.

Using a Groups.io forum, up to 140 volunteers have been studying or working to push the project to completion. Software is being created by multiple volunteers, with amateur radio operators involved in that phase as well.

The ventilators valves will precisely time the flow of compressed oxygen into a patient with lungs weakened by viral pneumonia in order to extend life and allow time for the body to clear the infection.

Among the projects assumptions: The Food and Drug Administration will waive clearance for the bare-bones design, if a massive shortage develops; traditional medical components and supplies used in ventilators will be in short supply, and transportation will be impaired or disrupted.

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Dr John Bartholomew in the Quantum Integration Laboratory at the University of Sydney Nano Institute. Photo: Stefanie Zingsheim

Quantum computers promise to revolutionise information technology this century. Based on the rules of quantum mechanics, the very nature of their hardware means they will be able to solve problems beyond the reach of classical computers. And scientists are also working on how best to build a network of these machines in order to create a quantum internet of sorts.

Engineers at Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, have discovered that by embedding atoms of the rare-earth element ytterbium in an optical cavity they are able to control and measure a stable form of quantum information in a solid. The system they have developed has the potential to share that information over thousands of kilometres using photons.

"This ticks most of the boxes, said Caltechs Professor Andrei Faraon, who led the research team. It's a rare-earth ion that absorbs and emits photons in exactly the way we'd need to create a quantum network.

This could form the backbone technology for the quantum internet."

Dr John Bartholomew is a co-author of the Nature paper and worked on the project at Caltech. This year he joined the University of Sydney Nano Institute and School of Physics.

He said: These rare-earth atoms have great appeal for quantum technologies but several challenges had to be overcome to get things working at the single atom level. Ive worked on overcoming these challenges since starting my PhD at the Australian National University 12 years ago.

I saw the nanophotonic cavities pioneered at Caltech as the best shot for making this breakthrough.

Dr Bartholomew now leads the Quantum Integration Laboratory at the University of Sydney. Here he hopes to build on the Universitys demonstrated strengths in photonics and quantum technologies.

The next big steps are to increase the performance and scale of this hardware and I can't wait to tackle these challenges at the University of Sydney by designing new materials and building integrated devices, he said.

As they can with classical computers, engineers would like to be able to connect multiple quantum computers to share data and work together creating a quantum internet. This would open the door to several applications, including solving computations that are too large to be handled by a single machine and establishing provably secure communications using quantum cryptography.

In order to work, a quantum network needs to be able to transmit information between two points without altering the quantum properties of the information being transmitted. The idea is to use one of the fundamental quantum properties of matter, which is entanglement. This is where the information of quantum objects remains dependent on each other, even if separated by an arbitrary distance.

One current model works like this: a single atom or ion acts as a quantum bit (or qubit) storing information via one if its properties, such as the direction of its angular momentum, known as spin. To read that information and transmit it elsewhere, the atom is excited with a pulse of light, causing it to emit a photon whose spin is entangled with the spin of the atom. The photon can then transmit the information entangled with the atom over a long distance via fibre-optic cable.

Doing that is harder than it sounds, however. Finding atoms that you can control and measure that also aren't too sensitive to magnetic or electric field fluctuations that cause errors, or decoherence, is challenging.

"Solid-state emitters that interact well with light often fall victim to decoherence; that is, they stop storing information in a way that's useful from the prospective of quantum engineering," said Caltechs Dr Jon Kindem, lead author of theNaturepaper.

Meanwhile, atoms of rare-earth elements, which have properties that make the elements useful as qubits, tend to interact poorly with light.

To overcome this challenge, researchers led by Professor Faraon constructed a nanophotonic cavity about 10 microns (0.01 millimetres) in length, sculpted from a piece of crystal.

The crystal was made in such a way that light inside it would bounce around in predictable patterns.

They then identified a charged atom, or ion, of the rare-earth element ytterbium was then placed at the centre of the cavity where it could receive a beam of photons. The optical cavity allows for light to bounce back and forth down the beam multiple times until it is finally absorbed by the ion.

In theNaturepaper, the team showed that the cavity modifies the environment of the ion such that whenever it emits a photon, more than 99 percent of the time that photon remains in the cavity, where scientists can efficiently collect and detect that photon to measure the state of the ion. This results in an increase in the rate at which the ion can emit photons, improving the overall effectiveness of the system.

In addition, the ytterbium atoms store information for 30 milliseconds. That doesnt sound long, but its long enough for light to transport that information nearly 6000 kilometres about the distance from Sydney to Jakarta and enough time to cross continental Europe, Asia, Australia or the US.

The team's current focus is on creating the building blocks of a quantum network. Next, they hope to scale up their experiments and connect two quantum bits, Professor Faraon said.

This research was funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research and theInstitute for Quantum Information and Matterat Caltech and used theKavli Nanoscience Institute Laboratoryat Caltech.

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The novel coronavirus has infected over 7 lakh people worldwide, and has claimed nearly 38,000 lives, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

While humanity is racing against time to find a cure for the disease, Delhi-basedPerSapien Innovation has come up with amachine called Airlens Minus Corona (-Corona) to counter the spread of the disease.

Started by Stanford University researchers Debayan Saha and Shashi Ranjan in 2017, PerSapien strongly believes that good health is the birthright of each (Per) human being (Sapien).

Shashi says, the machine is like a Robo Sapien (a human-like machine) that operates on the mechanism of charged/ionised water droplets, which is ionised using the corona discharge. The machine disperses the ionised water droplets, which in turn oxidises the viral protein, and hence reducing it to a non-harmful molecule.

Airlens minus Corona

Debayan adds thatalcohols (like ethanol or IPA) are known to inactivate viruses by denaturing their protein coat. But alcohol-based hand sanitisers are useful on a smaller scale. For example, it is useful for individuals to sanitise their hands, and is also helpful to sanitise surfaces at home, offices, etc.

However, this is insufficient in such an emergency as it is impractical to use alcohol for sanitising cities. Thus, to combat the virus at a larger scale, the entire city needs to be sanitised, for which Airlens Minus Corona (-Corona) has been created, he adds.

The machine can travel on the streets and spray the ionised water droplets, targetting crowded places like hospitals, bus stops, railway stations, markets, etc., to sterilise the city from the spread of the virus.

According to the founders, the startup, which is funded by Gas Authority India Limited (GAIL) and Yes Bank Foundation, is not looking to derive business gains from their invention.

Rather, the co-founders assert that the device is not for commercial sale, and they are planning to open the technology on their website so that anyone can make the device by themselves.

Considering the deadly situation India is exposed to, in order to curb the menace created by the virus, the government authorities will need such technology. Therefore, while the entire country has come together to fight the virus, we would like to contribute by giving Airlens Minus Corona technology to the government to check the spread of the virus, he says.

The founders say they have already tested the device, and the test turned out to be positive. After seeing successful results, they have been in touch with the government to implement the device in order to sterilise public places.

Debayan Saha worked in a drone development sector after completing his bachelors in technology from IIT Kharagpur. He says, an interesting turn of events led him to pursue Global Biodesign Fellowship at Stanford University, California, where he invented couple of medical devices for the US healthcare system.

To create an impact in the healthcare sector back home, he returned to India and joined AIIMS in New Delhi, where he started working on air pollution as a SIB Fellow, mentored by Padmashree Prof. Randeep Guleria, Director of AIIMS, and co-invented a technology.

Shashi Ranjan started his technical career with an engineering degree in Biotechnology from BIT Mesra. He pursued PhD in Biomedical Engineering from National University of Singapore, and authored various research publications in reputed peer reviewed journals like Nature Communications, and got his techniques patented.

Co-Founders of PerSepian Innovations (LtoR) Debayan Saha, and Shashi Ranjan

Shashi says, he is extremely eager to utilise his research to help people. He met Debayan at Stanfords Biodesign fellowship. During his stay at the Stanford University, he developed an innovative and frugal medical device to solve the problem of pace-maker lead dislodgement.

After returning to India, he identified air pollution as one of the biggest problems affecting lives of all. To solve this problem, he developed a novel air purification technology with support from Pfizer IIT Delhi Innovation & IP programme.

(Edited by Megha Reddy)

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The report also helps in understanding Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market dynamics, structure by analyzing the market segments, and project the Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market size. Clear representation of competitive analysis of key players by type, price, financial position, product portfolio, growth strategies, and regional presence in the Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market make the report investors guide.

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Scope of the Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market

Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market, by Technology

Nanocrystals Nanoparticleso Dendrimerso Gold Nanoparticleso Dendrimerso Fullereneso Others Liposomes Micelles Nanotubes OthersGlobal Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market, by Application

Neurology Oncology Cardiovascular/Physiology Anti-inflammatory/Immunology Anti-infective OthersGlobal Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market, by Region

North America Asia Pacific Europe Middle East & Africa South AmericaKey players operating in the Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market

Johnson & Johnson Merck & Co Roche Bayer Novartis Pharmaceuticals Pfizer AstraZeneca Amgen Celgene Corporation Angiotech Pharmaceuticals Capsulution Pharma AlphaRx Inc. Calando Pharmaceuticals Copernicus Therapeutics Elan Corporation Nanotherapeutics PAR Pharmaceutica Taiwan Liposome Co. AbbVie, Inc Amgen, Inc

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Chapter One: Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Overview

Chapter Two: Manufacturers Profiles

Chapter Three: Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Competition, by Players

Chapter Four: Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Size by Regions

Chapter Five: North America Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Revenue by Countries

Chapter Six: Europe Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Revenue by Countries

Chapter Seven: Asia-Pacific Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Revenue by Countries

Chapter Eight: South America Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Revenue by Countries

Chapter Nine: Middle East and Africa Revenue Nanotechnology Drug Delivery by Countries

Chapter Ten: Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Segment by Type

Chapter Eleven: Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Segment by Application

Chapter Twelve: Global Nanotechnology Drug Delivery Market Size Forecast (2019-2026)

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Anna Tomaszewska, a chemical engineer at Imperial College London who recently coauthored a review paper on fast-charging lithium-ion batteries, says one possible solution to lithium plating is to add silicon to the anode. Silicon is cheap, abundant, and can change the anodes crystal structure in such a way that makes lithium plating less likely. Silicon has been particularly popular with the manufacturers because it can also improve the energy capacity of the battery, adds Tomaszewska.

Indeed, many companies, including Tesla, have added silicon or silicon oxide to graphite anodes to squeeze some more energy from their lithium-ion cells. But Enevate, an energy storage company based in Southern California, wants to take graphite out of the picture. For the last 15 years, the company has been perfecting an XFC, or extremely fast charging lithium-ion battery with a pure silicon anode.

Earlier this year, the companys researchers announced that their latest generation of batteries could be charged to 75 percent in just five minuteswithout sacrificing energy density. We can have a fast charge without losing out on energy density because were using an inexpensive, pure-silicon approach, says Ben Park, Enevates founder and chief technology officer.

Battery companies are well known for announcing performance breakthroughs in experimental cells that never make it to market. But what sets Enevates technology apart, according to Jarvis Tou, the companys executive vice president, is that its anode material can be readily integrated into existing battery manufacturing processes. Tou says Enevate is already in talks with lithium-ion manufacturers to start integrating Enevates anode into commercial batteries. The first applications for the fast-charge batteries will be for power tools, but that Enevate is working with car manufacturers to include it in EVs as early as 2024.

Other companies are also racing to bring fast-charge anode chemistries to market. StoreDot, an Israeli energy storage company, is developing an EV battery that they expect will charge in under 10 minutes. And last month, researchers from the English battery startup Echion claimed to have built a lithium-ion battery that can charge in just six minutes using an anode made from mixed niobium oxide that is nanoengineered to efficiently transport lithium ions. Weve engineered the material to have a specific crystal structure, says Jean de la Verpillire, the CEO and founder of Echion. You can think of it as these little tunnels at the molecular scale that allow lithium ions to travel very fast into the anode.

These bespoke XFC batteries havent made it out of the lab and into the real world yet. Producing lithium-ion batteries at scale is challenging, and manufacturers have to be persuaded to add new materials into their assembly lines. Thats why companies like Echion and Enevate have prioritized developing anode materials that can be dropped in to existing battery production processes. Both say theyre in talks with battery manufacturers to integrate their anode material in commercial cells. Were not trying to reinvent the wheel, adds de la Verpillire. Going from lab discovery to a product is difficult, but its not black magic.

But building a cheap XFC battery might not require new anode chemistries at all. At NREL, Keyser and his colleagues are focused on optimizing graphite anodes, which are already widely used in EVs. Keyser says the team uses computer models to optimize the routes lithium ions take as they move through an anode and to influence this route by manipulating the size and shape of the graphite particles.

Nanoengineering anode structures is difficult to implement at scale, but Keysers team is also exploring solutions to XFC batteries that dont involve modifying the structure or chemistry of a battery anode at all. For example, intelligent algorithms could be implemented at charging stations to ensure that a battery is never overwhelmed by energy while its charging, which can lead to lithium plating. Tesla does this already, to some extent. Its charging stations and cars communicate so that the charging station delivers the right amount of power for the age and make of the car being recharged.

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Nanotechnology the creation and use of devices and machines on almost an atomic level is likely to be the driving force behind the next great revolution to benefit humankind. The actual definition of nanotechnology can be quite broad, generally, in scientific and engineering terms, nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (0.000000001 m). That really does put it on an atomic scale, though the products that can be constructed in this way may be a little larger and can range from microscopic to anything under a millimetre.

While this kind of technology will have applications in many fields, there are likely to be huge advantages in the field of cars and motoring and in the near future, nanotechnology is likely to have a massive impact on the world of driving and vehicles.

It is a fact that nanotechnology can impact so many areas of motoring makes it one of the most important up and coming technologies, and it has attracted the attention of a great number of researchers. This has led to a growing number of breakthroughs in the field, and even more possibilities for this exciting and highly flexible area of science to push different fields of motoring forward. But where is nanotechnology having the greatest influence in car manufacture?

We ask a lot of our internal combustion engines in terms of both increased performance and decreased size and weight. Those two elements together would usually mean disaster for a high-performance engine, but nano-engineering has allowed us to do both, and safely. Engine blocks, which house the fundamental moving parts of the mechanism, were traditionally made of cast iron, because it was the only practical material that could resist the high temperatures and pressures that were produced in the heart of an engine. But engineers soon found that certain grades of aluminium which weighs around a third that of cast iron were found to be suitable too.

But now, engineers have learned how to manipulate aluminiums on an atomic level nanoengineering to create materials that are both stronger while being more lightweight than even the current batch of strong aluminium alloys. This makes them even more fuel efficient while having an increased durability, even in the increasingly hostile conditions found in modern engines. It is a fact that an internal combustion engine performs better and is more efficient at higher temperatures, so this is always a goal for engine designers. We are now also experiencing methods of placing ultra-thin layers of engineering ceramics on metal substrates, creating a surface that is capable of withstanding higher temperatures and wear situations.

Manipulation of either the fundamental structure of the engine block material, or the surface architecture or both, even gives designers far greater scope in heat dissertation, wear characteristics, and strength at elevated temperatures.

We have also seen advances in motor oils, particularly in respect to their ability to withstand the punishing environments of modern engines. Nano-manipulation has created a new breed of oils that are able to cling to internal surfaces for longer, meaning that it is in the right place when the engine starts, so that it offers protection right from the start. Nanotechnology oils are also able to put up with much greater use as the tolerances between engine parts decreases and they operate closer together.

Fuel efficiency, whether the car is petrol, diesel, or electric, is a function of its weight, and even quite small reductions in weight can lead to increase attained mileage significantly. One of the best ways to cut the weight of a vehicle is to use lightweight materials for the structural chassis parts and the exterior, and this is another area where nano-manipulation of materials can create stronger, more lightweight, panels and chassis that are stronger than the ones that they have replaced. Nanotechnology is also responsible for the creation of plastic panels that are able to self-repair and reform themselves following damage.

As the next generation of electric vehicles become common on our streets, engineers and researchers are looking at how to lengthen battery life while increasing performance. This has led to the development of lithium-silicon batteries which promise to boost performance and increase longevity. The latest developments in this fast-moving include silicon nanowires that expand and contract as they absorb and shed lithium ions, and tiny nano-structures with carbon shells protecting lithium-rich silicon cores. This combination allows for more efficient energy transfer, meaning that less energy is lost to the environment as heat and more is supplied to the system.

Nanotechnology is also improving fuel cells the clean alternative technology to hydrocarbon fuels. In these, hydrogen is passed over a catalyst to produce hydrogen ions which then go on to reattached to oxygen and result in energy production. The catalysts are increasingly variations of platinum nano-structures to maximise the surface area and harvest the greatest number of hydrogen ions, thereby maximising energy production too.

Nano-sized layers of inorganic filters are increasingly being applied to the vulnerable surfaces of car bodies, to help protect them from harsh environments, and self-repair to an increasing extent. The smart particles can also help repel dirt and grime, keeping your car looking cleaner, while new developments in orientable surface particles mean that we may soon be able to change the outer colour of our cars by adjusting small electrical charges to them.

Interiors. The use of specialist nanotechnology fabrics is helping to keep the interiors of our cars looking fresh and clean, but also repellent to bacterial affects, creating soft, good looking and completely safe interiors. Once again, developments are being made that will allow the colour of the interior to be changes by reorienting the nano-particles of the material, so that the user can choose any combination of colour that they like, while still having excellent antibacterial properties.

Nanotechnology in cars is becoming big business, and as we find new ways to manipulate materials on an atomic scale, so new applications arise. This will lead to cleaner, quieter, more pleasant cars in the future, and that can only be a good thing.

Note: This is a guest blog by Giles Kirkland, an automotive industry writer and researcher.

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VANCOUVER, March 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Precision Nanosystems, Inc. (PNI), a global leader in enabling transformative nanomedicinesannounced today that the companyentered into a license agreement with FUJIFILM Corporationto adopt PNI's NanoAssemblr technology and complete suite of instruments for Fujifilm'sstate-of-the-art manufacturing facility, compatible with GMP regulations of US, Europe and Japan.

As part of this agreement, Fujifilm has the rights to offer contract manufacturing services using PNI's proprietary technology andalso use PNI technology to develop and commercialize its internal therapeutic drug products. PNI and Fujifilm will work together to combine and democratize the scalable manufacturing of gene therapy and small-molecule based nanomedicines using Fujifilm's and PNI's proprietary technologies.

PNI's NanoAssemblr technology is powered by the disruptive NxGen microfluidics mixing technology designed exclusively for scalable nanomedicine development while maintaining precise control and reproducibility. The NanoAssemblr platform is comprised of the Spark, Ignite, Blaze and GMP Systems that together offer a flexible solution for accelerated, cost-effective development and scalable manufacture of high-quality gene therapy, small molecule and protein-based nanomedicine products.

James Taylor, Co-Founder and CEO of PNI said, "We are thrilled to work with Fujifilm to enable our technology in support of clinical clients as they progress their therapeutic programs from the laboratory to the clinic and commercial. Fujifilm's R&D teams will combinethe PNI platform andtheir proprietary Drug Delivery Systems technologies and we look forward to the seamless scaling up and manufacturing of innovative medicines to impact human well-being."

Nanomedicinesis one of the focus areas of Fujifilm, tapping into itsadvanced technologies such as nano-technology, process engineering technology and analysis technology. "We are excited to work with PNI to bring on board the NanoAssemblr suite of products and cutting-edge nanomedicines manufacturing technology," said Junji Okada, Senior Vice President, General Manager of Pharmaceutical products division, FUJIFILM Corporation. "Tapping into Fujifilm's state of the art technology, expertise and thefacility for the provision of pre-clinical and GMP manufacturing services, we are committed to creating innovative and high-value pharmaceutical productsnot only through internal development but also by providing high quality liposomal formulations to our partner companies."

About Precision NanoSystems Inc.

Precision NanoSystems Inc. (PNI) proprietary NanoAssemblr Platform enables the rapid, reproducible, and scalable manufacture of next generation nanoparticle formulations for the targeted delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to cells and tissues in the body. PNI provides instruments, reagents and services to life sciences researchers, including pharmaceutical companies, and builds strategic collaborations to revolutionize healthcare through nanotechnology. For more information, visit http://www.precisionnanosystems.com.

About Fujifilm CorporationFUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, Japan is one of the major operating companies of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation. The company brings cutting edge solutions to a broad range of global industries by leveraging its depth of knowledge and fundamental technologies developed in its relentless pursuit of innovation. Its proprietary core technologies contribute to the various fields including healthcare, graphic systems, highly functional materials, optical devices, digital imaging and document products. These products and services are based on its extensive portfolio of chemical, mechanical, optical, electronic and imaging technologies. For the year ended March 31, 2019, the company had global revenues of $22 billion, at an exchange rate of 111 yen to the dollar. Fujifilm is committed to responsible environmental stewardship and good corporate citizenship. For more information, please visit: http://www.fujifilmholdings.com.

Jane Alleva, Global Marketing Manager, Precision NanoSystems, Phone: 1 888 618 0031, ext 140, mobile 1 778 877 5473

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Nanofabrica, a manufacturer of 3D printers for precision engineering, is inviting researchers, doctors and manufacturers to apply additive manufacturing techniques to develop medical devices and solutions to help in the fight against Covid-19.

The company is hosting a virtual roundtable on Wednesday, 25 March, at 16:00 GMT+2 and invites all interested parties to join a brainstorming session on how the companys manufacturing capabilities (3D printing with 1 micron resolution over cm sized volume) can be used to develop equipment and supplies needed to fight Covid-19.Possible applications include smart filters for microfluidic chips, anti-bacterial surfaces, complex and precise structures and soft moulds for rapid injection-molding.

Link to event:https://zoom.us/j/324801539

If you are unable to make it for the virtual session, please send an email with all relevant questions and details totovit@nano-fabrica.comand Nanofabricas teamwill reply as soon as possible.

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3D-printing company hosts virtual roundtable Wednesday

Nanofabrica, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based manufacturer of 3D printers for precision engineering, will host a virtual roundtable for researchers, doctors, and manufacturers to harness the companies manufacturing capabilities to develop medical devices and solutions related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The roundtable is scheduled for 4 p.m. GMT+2 (10 a.m. Eastern Time) Wednesday via Zoom. Professionals unable to join the virtual session are invited to email relevant questions and details to [emailprotected].Click here for the meeting link.

FDA hosts virtual town hall for clinical laboratories

FDA will host a virtual town hall for clinical laboratories and commercial manufacturers that are developing or have developed diagnostic tests for COVID-19. The event will be from 3 - 4 p.m. Eastern Time.The purpose of this town hall is toanswer technical questions about the development and validation of tests for the virus and FDAs updated policy on COVID-19 diagnostics issued on March 16. The agency alsoplans to hold virtual town halls for clinical laboratories and commercial manufacturers every Wednesday in April from 3 4p.m. Eastern Time.

Call for survey participantsfor online roundtable

LNS Research, a Cambridge, MA-based firm, is asking professionals across industries to take a brief survey about the strategies companies are taking to sustain critical operations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey results will be shared during an online roundtable scheduled for 11 a.m. ET. The goal of the event is to enable organizational leaders to share strategies in responding to the crisis, best practices, and how to prepare for the new normal. Register for the event here.

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