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Curtains down on self-cleaning windows?22 Jul, 2010 11:29 am We take the green credentials of nano-TiO2 cleaning agents for a test ride and arrive at some surprising results!Nanosilver2 Dec, 2009 08:15 am I was astonished when recently, during a discussion about hazards of mineral nanoparticles, a learned colleague of mine took a bottle of colloid silver...Carbon nanotube springs have potential to compete with batteries5 Oct, 2009 02:46 pm MIT scientists find that carbon nanotubes springs have potential to store as much energy as lithium-ion batteries. They are also more reliable and more...Nano-capacitors: the root towards the super power battery20 Aug, 2009 10:50 am Nanostructured devices have the potential to serve as the basis for next-generation energy systems that make use of densely packed interfaces and thin...Trying to make me go to rehab, I?m saying Nano, Nano, Nano3 May, 2009 02:24 pm Amy Winehouse, who shot to stardom with her hit single ?rehab?, may never have to see rehab, if researchers have their way. Scientists have taken a significant...Nanoparticles come at the top of occupational chemical risks22 Apr, 2009 09:10 pm It is estimated that each year there are 74,000 work-related deaths linked to hazardous substances encountered in the workplace...Future War Revisited21 Nov, 2008 11:18 am Think of a futuristic war scenario where soldiers are firing smart weapons from the confines of their command centres. Weapons that are capable of intercepting...Nanotechnology's True Potential14 Nov, 2008 11:14 am It is disappointing to still find articles like this one in the UK Independent that are short-sighted and actually misleading about nanotechnology:Reinventing optical microscopy with nanotubes31 Oct, 2008 10:53 am Nanotube have a diameter two orders of magnitude smaller and about one order of magnitude longer than the size of the focal spot of the microscope...Ups and Downs29 Sep, 2008 11:43 am Going up? Japan is looking at getting into the space elevator business. If they are truly serious about it, I would not bet against them achieving success...Neural Nanomachines15 Sep, 2008 04:43 pm Earlier today, we posted an announcement about substantial new research grants available from the European Research Council. Meanwhile,...Power of Small: Introduction to Nanotechnology9 May, 2008 11:59 am How will nanotechnology change the world? Nanotechnology is a rapidly moving and all-encompassing suite of technologies that promises to change almost...It's 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Dad Is?9 May, 2008 11:59 am Barry Steinhart and Richard Atkinson debate tagging their father with a nanoscale tracking device to ensure his safety. The Power of Small panel discusses...Rows of atoms: watching missing atoms with electrons25 Feb, 2008 12:50 pm While electron microscopes are available for more than 70 years, they have been recently significantly improved. The use of aberration correctors improved...Nanovalve Material Captures and Stores Gases20 Feb, 2008 12:37 pm In a different approach to gas storage, a Ph.D. student, Brett Chandler and two professors, George Shimizu and David Cramb, at University of Calgary along...Challenges in Making Superstrong Materials Based on Carbon Nanotubes28 Jan, 2008 10:07 pm Thinking of carbon nanotube (CNT) composites, one might expect superstrong materials. But a closer look at the steep challenges to improve the mechanical...Nanotechnology in Medicine: Massive Advances on a Tiny Scale24 Jan, 2008 01:15 pm Professor Naomi Halas at Rice University (TX) discusses her nanotechnology research and its applicable uses in science and medicine of the future. (CNN)Action on Surfaces: Moving Molecules and Nano Particles on Surfaces28 Dec, 2007 02:13 pm To build devices at molecular scale, we need to control the position, orientation and movement of individual molecules on surfaces...Magic Bullets: How Nanosized Drug Packages Can Bring Drugs More Selectively to Cancer27 Nov, 2007 10:42 am Anticancer agents such as paclitaxel and cisplatin display a very high therapeutic potency towards isolated cancer cells. However,...Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna21 Nov, 2007 10:54 am Imaging techniques with high spatial resolution in the mid-infrared region of the optical spectrum (wavelength ranging from 3 microns to 25 microns) have...Nano particles, medicine and heat conduction23 Oct, 2007 11:10 am Metal nano particles have a particularly large optical cross-section that can be used in high resolution imaging and treating cancer. Heat transport,...Nanotechnology Researchers at Northwestern University Revolutionize Drug Delivery with Advanced Nanomaterials22 Oct, 2007 10:09 am Nanodiamonds, a revolutionary class of nanomaterials, are 2 nanometers in diameter in single-particle form, and can be manipulated to form clusters with...Nanotechnology: 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics11 Oct, 2007 03:14 pm Drs. Albert Fert (France) and Peter Gr?nberg (Germany) were announced as the recipients of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of "giant...Three Good Reasons to Do Nanotechnology: 1. For a Sustainable Energy Economy20 Sep, 2007 12:57 pm When I was in Norway a few months ago, I was talking to an official from their research council about the Norwegian national nanotechnology strategy...Gutenberg and New Top-Down Tools: Learning How to Make Things Small18 Sep, 2007 01:44 pm Projection lithography (photo lithography) is the preferred top-down tool for device fabrication. Projection lithography has been highly successful during...Silicon Nanoparticles Enhance Performance of Solar Cells4 Sep, 2007 02:15 pm Semiconductor fluorescent nanomaterial may find applications in photovoltaic (PV) solar cell technology through the development of cells based entirely...Nanotechnology Helps Scientists Make Bendy Sensors for Hydrogen Vehicles16 Aug, 2007 11:51 am Flexible hydrogen sensors and sensor arrays (i.e., sensory skins) can be used in a wide of range of systems which require demanding low cost,...Assembling Nanoparticles on Liquid Interfaces Leads to Fascinating New Materials30 Aug, 2007 02:46 pm Stefan A. F. Bon discusses how you can use liquid-liquid interfaces as a tool to assemble nanoparticles into larger structures...New Research Explores Making Electrical Contact with Nanotubes14 Aug, 2007 11:26 am With walls that can be just one atom thick, carbon nanotubes promise to enable technology that??s smaller, faster and more energy efficient than seems...Agriculture and Food Workers Challenge Nanotechnologies9 Aug, 2007 12:10 pm We analize the first declaration issued at a continental level by a federation of trade unions on nanotechnologies. In March, 2007,...Can Semiconductors Operate Like a Human Cell?3 Aug, 2007 10:59 am Semiconductor membranes made of two thin layers of opposite n- and p-doping can perform electrically tunable ion current rectification and filtering in...Bio-inspired Super-strong Carbon Materials2 Aug, 2007 02:08 pm Our work in the July 26, 2007 issue of Nature demonstrates a materials platform that can be further tuned through chemistry to perhaps yield super-strong...Impact of Fullerene (C60) on Organisms in the Soil1 Aug, 2007 10:18 am The paper, Impact of Fullerene (C60) on a Soil Microbial Community*, reports the effects of the carbon-based nano-scale material, fullerenes,...Did you come across nanobots lately?18 Jul, 2007 02:36 pm 20 years after futurist K. Eric Drexler?s book ?Engines of Creation? describing the possibility for self-reproducing nano robots,...Targeting and Detecting Cancer Cells Using Nanoparticles23 Jul, 2007 02:26 pm Current cancer therapy always experiences non-specific killing of healthy cells, thus the therapeutic efficiency is extremely low...Gold Nanoglue19 Jul, 2007 10:59 am At the nanoscale - the order of billionths of a meter, materials exhibit unique optical, electronic, and magnetic properties not seen at the bulk scale...Build Public Confidence in The Process And The Governance of Science12 Jul, 2007 12:18 pm Richard Wilson is the director of Involve and co-authored a recent report entitled, ?Democratic Technologies? Final report of the Nanotechnology Engagement...A One-Two Punch Against Multidrug Resistant Cancer13 Jul, 2007 03:10 pm The development of multidrug resistance represents the single most important reason for therapeutic failure in the clinical management of cancer,...Carbon Nanotube Injects Living Cells Without Damage12 Jul, 2007 02:19 pm Cell biologists have been trying to figure out the complicated processes happening inside a living cell. One commonly used approach is to introduce or...Carbon Nanotubes Are Tougher and Supercompressible11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm We show that under repeated high compressive strains, the long nanotube block shows a viscoelastic behavior similar to that seen in the soft tissue membranes...Nanotechnology and Sustainability22 Jun, 2007 05:04 pm Nanotechnology has the potential to make a big impact on sustainability; but to achieve this potential, we need a multiple of cross disciplinary approaches...Enabling New Medical Interventions through Medical Nanorobotics26 Jun, 2007 05:17 pm Nearly 100,000 km of blood vessels inside the human body could provide the best routes for conducting new or improved medical interventions non-invasively...Designing New Drug Nanocarriers18 Jun, 2007 03:43 pm The formulation of safe and efficient controlled drug delivery is an extremely important research topic. In particular, it is an ambitious goal for many...Transferring Quantum Information from Light to Matter and Back Again12 Jun, 2007 02:18 pm A quantum computer is a device that can perform certain tasks much more efficiently than a classical computer byexploiting unique aspects of quantum mechanics...Electronics, Photonics, Spintronics, Plasmonics And Now Scientists Introduce A New Field: Spinplasmonics6 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm Researchers at the Ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics Laboratory at the University of Alberta (U of A), Edmonton, Canada and the Naval Research Laboratory..."Nanoscience Is More Than A Revolution, It's A Profound Mutation in The History of Humanity."25 May, 2007 03:56 pm Interview with J?el de Rosnay, scientist, essayist, and a consultant to the president of la Cit? des Sciences (Paris).A world under nano-surveillance25 May, 2007 03:55 pm Nanosurveillance, that is surveillance assisted by nanotechnology, constitutes one of the most hotly contested issues at the center of this technological...Nanorobots25 May, 2007 03:56 pm Among the possible nanotechnology applications, nanorobotics constitutes without a doubt one of the most fascinating. The idea is to build machines or...Insight Into The Nano World25 May, 2007 03:56 pm A technological revolution is occurring. It will create stronger materials, a new generation of medical treatments, and even more performant electronic...100 00025 May, 2007 02:19 pm A nanometer, the nanoworld scale, is 100 000 times finer than a strand of hair.Pixie Dust and Carbon Nanotubes18 May, 2007 11:27 am Predictions of the use of carbon nanotubes (CNT) are so overwhelming that some call it pixie dust. Bright prototype CNT based flat screens can be seen...[Video] Meet the Scientists and Be There When the Latest Discoveries Are Made!9 May, 2007 01:09 pm We'd like to draw our readers' attention to an original scientific communication experience. As the nano2hybrids website puts it: "Over the coming 3 years...Smart Nano Composite Inhibits Tooth Decay15 May, 2007 12:36 pm When tooth decay recurs after the initial restoration, it is termed secondary (or ?recurrent?) decay. It occurs mostly at where the filling material binds...Nanotechnology for Healing Damaged Vascular Tissue4 May, 2007 12:45 pm Atherosclerotic vascular disease, characterized by artery hardening and vessel narrowing through plaque accumulation, has become the leading cause of death...Measurement Challenges Make Nanomaterials Assessments Difficult3 May, 2007 12:05 pm Single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been highlighted repeatedly as a unique and versatile material that could revolutionize numerous industries in...Self-Assembly and Nanostructures: Fabricating Without a Top-Down Tool23 Apr, 2007 01:27 pm Controlling growth of materials opens the way to fabricate regular highly perfect structures without any top-down tool making it far less cost intensive...Robust Spin Generates Hope for Spin Based Computers29 Mar, 2007 10:46 am Like a top spinning about its axis, an electron constantly rotates about its own axis creating a tiny magnetic moment known as the ?spin?...The Impact of Semiconductor Industry on Nanotechnology22 Mar, 2007 11:28 am The advancement in semiconductor industry is changing research laboratories. Clean rooms have to be built, and lithography machines need to be installed...Patterning Metallic Nanostructures Using Solid Electrolyte Stamps7 Mar, 2007 11:11 am Metallic structures are ubiquitous in micro and nanotechnology. From the interconnects that transmit signals in your i-Pod, cell phone and laptop,...Hybrid Materials of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires24 Jan, 2007 04:36 pm As scientists look for new materials to replace silicon for faster computers, carbon nanotubes and nanowires of various kinds have appeared to be the most...Nanotechnology Research comes of age17 Jan, 2007 11:03 am Nearly half a century has passed since Richard Feynman pointed out the tremendous potential in making structures at the atomic scale...Nanoscience Holds Promise For Multiple Applications17 Jan, 2007 05:03 pm Dr. Omid Farokhzad is an attending anthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. His research interests include pain medicine and cancer nanotechnology...A Call For Transparency in Nanotechnology4 Jan, 2007 01:41 pm Professor Steven Currall recently published an article in Nature Nanotechnology. He answers our questions about the future and risks of nanoscience...2-D Or Not 2-D8 Jan, 2007 01:34 pm Over a century ago, when he invented the ubiquitous dish that bears his name, Julius Petri, a technician in Robert Koch?s laboratory,...Nanomaterials Produce Heterogeneous Three- Dimensional Electronics26 Dec, 2006 05:36 am Researchers at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois have developed a new, experimentally simple approach for...?With the Emergence of New Nanotechnologies, There Is a Real Need to Monitor Exposure to Humans?21 Nov, 2006 02:56 pm Fourteen top international scientists in the field of nanotechnology have identified Five Grand Challenges for nanotechnology risk research that must be...How Can We Make Nanoscale Capacitors Even Smaller?3 Nov, 2006 03:25 pm By modeling a material?s nanoscale behavior, researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have pinpointed a performance-limiting layer vital...Fossilized Liquid Assembly: A Bio-Inspired Route to Complex Structures8 Nov, 2006 10:00 am The advanced capabilities of many materials result from their exceptional surface properties. While coatings and paints improve surface properties through...A Tactile ?Sensory Robot? to Determine Object Features24 Oct, 2006 10:20 am Engineers at Northwestern University have developed the first array of artificial whiskers that can sweep over an object to render a three-dimensional...Supercapacitors Start a Revolution in Energy Storage Devices4 Oct, 2006 08:31 am When shopping for power sources to make Palm Pilots, iPods, and other ubiquitous personal electronic devices work, a capacitor is probably the last thing..."The Opportunities for Good and Bad Offered by Nanotechnology Demand an International Response"12 Sep, 2006 12:12 pm In his new book Nanotechnology: New Promises, New Dangers [1], Toby Shelley, journalist at the Financial Times, introduces us to the ?...Who discovered carbon nanotubes? - All you need to know about the discovery of carbon nanotubes.6 Sep, 2006 05:06 pm On reading articles in newspapers and science and technology magazines one gets that impression that Suomo Iijima, a scientist at NEC Japan,...Slippery Nanopipes15 Jun, 2006 10:32 am Imagine the amount of water that comes out of a fire hose attached to a hydrant. If you replace the fire hose with a regular garden hose,...Carbon Nanotubes as Deformation Cells on the Nanoscale12 Jun, 2006 09:24 am Nanocrystalline materials are composed of crystallites with sizes of a few nanometers. It has been observed since decades that such materials are mechanically..."Carbon nanotubes might have a role in targeting drugs to tumour cells or delivery of drugs to the nervous system"30 May, 2006 01:55 pm Todd Pappas is co-author of a study published in the May issue of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on the ability of carbon nanotubes to carry...Nanoionics ? Engineering Nanostructured Crystals from Charged Nanopart8 May, 2006 03:09 pm Self-assembly of nanoscopic components into higher-order architectures defines the forefront of fundamental nanoscience research and is important for the...Automotive Aluminium?s Strength Unravelled at Atomic Level5 May, 2006 12:10 pm AlMgSi alloys are massively produced materials for modern industries, especially for fuel-efficient transportation vehicles. However,..."New strategy for optimizing the nanostructured metals"3 May, 2006 01:36 pm In a report published in the April 14 issue of Science [1], a team of scientists observes that a nanostructured metal can be hardened by annealing and...Piezoelectric Nanogenerators for Wireless Nanosensors25 Apr, 2006 04:14 pm Developing novel technologies for wireless nanodevices and nanosystems are of critical importance for in-situ, real-time and implantable biosensing,...Fast DNA Sequencing via Transverse Electronic Transport18 Apr, 2006 06:37 pm Currently it costs millions of dollars and takes months to sequence the entire genome of a human. In order to realize the goal of personalized medicine... |