Power Tools: Endeavors magazine, Fall 2005, UNC Chapel Hill.

features

• power tools
• rhiannon's aster
• alien and extreme
• safe isn't an option
• the good in bad girls

departments

welcome

• from the editor

overview

• love, for the birds
• helping soldiers' families
• life-saving cord blood
• cleaner water for the rest of the world
• the cut she can do without

in print

• an ax murder that refuses to die
• unlocking the door
• are we down on our kids?

endview

• for better or worse

Endeavors: research and creative activity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Power Tools

Fuel cells for energy. Tiny tubes for sharper x-rays. Nanoparticles to deliver drugs or genes. Here are three stories about new tools that could save oil, reveal hidden risks, or deliver a cure.

The Physics of Clarity

Nanotubes may inspire a new generation of x-ray machines.

The Chemistry of Energy

Carolina researchers are working to make your battery — and your gas guzzler — obsolete.

Tiny Particles Designed to Deliver a Cure

Nanoparticles may make better drug carriers.