Tiny technology tapped for oil extraction

Dec. 3, 2008
ConocoPhillips hopes KU drug delivery method can help get more crude
KU researchers will receive $1.2 million during the next three years to apply patented drug-delivery nanotechnology to the previously unreachable depths of oil exploration and extraction.

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