{"id":243,"date":"2011-05-18T19:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2011-05-24T20:47:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T03:47:02","slug":"putting-the-green-in-nanomachines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Putting the green in nanomachines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-276\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/green-science\/green-nanotechnology.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-276 \" title=\"Carbon nanotubes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Carbon_Nanotubes.png\" alt=\"Carbon nanotubes\" width=\"200\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carbon nanotubes. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We tend to think of nanotechnology as the stuff of the future, but it\u2019s already here, in hundreds of consumer products and industrial applications. As progress in this minuscule world has accelerated, concern for the environment and for public health has led to a call for green nanotechnology\u2014approaches that accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. In this article, we&#8217;ll take a tour of how these many approaches are playing out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/science.howstuffworks.com\/environmental\/green-science\/green-nanotechnology.htm\" target=\"_blank\">How is green nanotechnology being used?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tend to think of nanotechnology as the stuff of the future, but it\u2019s already here, in hundreds of consumer products and industrial applications. As progress in this minuscule world has accelerated, concern for the environment and for public health has led to a call for green nanotechnology\u2014approaches that accentuate the positive and eliminate the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Putting the green in nanomachines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,76,12,54,94,46,14,82,73,67,74,3,13,49],"tags":[72,15,115,25,68,119,116,77,117,118,51],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-consumer","category-electromagnetism","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-green","category-health","category-materials","category-medicine","category-physics","category-science","category-technology","category-water-issues","tag-climate-change","tag-hybrid","tag-nanotechnology","tag-nature","tag-pathology","tag-photonics","tag-pollution","tag-quantum","tag-solar","tag-sustainability","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}