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Roberto Calati

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I am an undergraduate student from Swinburne University studying an Engineering/Science degree. I completed a year long internship at NanoVic in 2005 and now I work here part-time while completing my degree. I first stumbled across nanotechnology about 6 years ago while reading an article in Time magazine. Of course it was a slightly sensationalist article with wild visions of a nano future, but it grabbed my attention, and immediately my imagination ran wild with the possibilities of nano. I hope that in this blog, I can inspire other people to imagine the potential of nanotechnology while maintaining a sense of realism (it's not hard!) My role at NanoVic involves managing demonstration projects and scoping for new emerging nanotechnologies

Roberto has authored the following posts:

  1. Going Up! Space Elevator 2010
    Elevator 2010 is a competition that was started in 2005 in the US to realise the dream of building an elevator on earth that extends into space. The competition is open to universities and aerospace firms and the requirement is to build a space elevator prototype that can travel 100 meters into the air in [...]
    Filed in Nanomaterials, Social Impacts | 27 Jul 2007 | no comments
  2. Nanotech Enhanced Hair Straighteners -Super Shiny, Super Fresh!
    As nanotechnology becomes more ubiquitous, we are seeing it pop up a lot more in everyday products. One product in particular that caught my attention is hair straighteners. No, I don’t own or use one, but I noticed that a few of them incorporate gold or silver nanoparticles on the heating elements. A website selling [...]
    Filed in Consumer Products, Nanomaterials | 04 May 2007 | 3 comments
  3. CSI Comes to Life!
    Many of us are fascinated by the tv show CSI and the processes they use to catch criminals. Unfortunately, we are often told by those who work in the forensic industry, that the reality is very different to what happens on the show. Well, not for long! For the past year, we have been working with [...]
    Filed in Nanomaterials, Social Impacts | 29 Sep 2006 | 2 comments