Abstract:
... In addition to the agricultural and textile interests, biotech and nano-tech companies have shown a keen interest in the Dragon Mine halloysite. The time-release attributes are of a very high interest to companies currently researching the deployment of nano technology. ''One example of nano-technology," explained Jacobson, "is something known as nano-structured surface coating. Nano-technologists believe they can create a surface coating that can do things never before possible.