{"id":222,"date":"2009-04-22T12:20:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T01:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=222"},"modified":"2009-04-22T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T01:20:58","slug":"090-amanda-barnard-what-is-nanotechnology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"090 &#8211; Amanda Barnard &#8211; What is Nanotechnology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I talk to Dr Amanda Barnard, an expert in nanoscience, from the CSIRO on nanotechnology.  We discuss:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; What are nanoparticles?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are nanorods?<br \/>\n&#8211; What properties of a substance make it a useful nanoparticle?<br \/>\n&#8211; What makes nanoparticles useful?<br \/>\n&#8211; What do you need to know to understand nanotechnology?<br \/>\n&#8211; What are some examples of the usage of nanotechnology today?<br \/>\n&#8211; The usage of nanoparticles in medicines<br \/>\n&#8211; What about the re-use of nanoparticles?<br \/>\n&#8211; Capturing nanoparticles<br \/>\n&#8211; Nanotechnology in the ancient world and medieval times<br \/>\n&#8211; Current and future research in this area<\/p>\n<p>Also featured is the listener of the episode.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/audio.jpg\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/~brainsmatter\/BM090-AmandaBarnard.mp3\">Download MP3 of Ep 90<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please vote for this podcast this month at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/one_vote2.php?pod_id=40939\" title=\"Podcast Alley - Your Podcast Library\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podcastalley.com\/images\/podcastalley_icon.gif\" alt=\"PodcastAlley.com Feeds\" border=\"0\" height=\"15\" width=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_xclick&amp;business=brainsmatterinbox%40gmail%2ecom&amp;no_shipping=2&amp;no_note=1&amp;tax=0&amp;currency_code=USD&amp;bn=PP%2dDonationsBF&amp;charset=UTF%2d8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/x-click-but04.gif\" alt=\"Donate via Paypal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can donate by clicking on the button above, and subscribe by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=257301606\">subscribing in iTunes <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i182.photobucket.com\/albums\/x287\/brainsmatter\/iTunesWord.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talk to Dr Amanda Barnard, an expert in nanoscience, from the CSIRO on nanotechnology. We discuss: &#8211; What are nanoparticles? &#8211; What are nanorods? &#8211; What properties of a substance make it a useful nanoparticle? &#8211; What makes nanoparticles useful? &#8211; What do you need to know to understand nanotechnology? &#8211; What are some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,16,19,20],"tags":[39,62,356,365,172,173,368,272],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brainsmatter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}