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Tag: Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Tiny materials, big industry: SA’s new nanotechnology facility

Posted on 10th January 2016 by Sarah

The outputs of this multi-million rand project are too small to be seen with the naked eye. But nanomaterials – made through the application of nanotechnology – offer South Africa a high-technology niche to bolster our ailing manufacturing sector. Nanotechnology involves manipulating materials on an atomic level, with structures between one and 100 nanometres. For…

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Researchers plug carbon sink gaps

Posted on 6th September 20156th September 2015 by Sarah

The stormy waters south of the Cape suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and are key to understanding what will happen to our climate as the Earth heats up. The storms are part of the reason the Southern Ocean is one of the most under-researched in the world, although it absorbs almost half of…

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