At just a molecule thick, it's a new record: The world's thinnest sheet of glass, a serendipitous discovery by scientists at Cornell and Germany's University of Ulm, is recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Sep 12th, 2013
Read moreThe EDGE-SUNY CNSE partnership is designed to accelerate the attraction of next-generation 450mm computer chip manufacturing to the Mohawk Valley by deploying Governor Andrew Cuomo's publicly-led and publicly-managed public-private partnership model that he first introduced with the CNSE Global 450mm Consortium (G450C).
Sep 12th, 2013
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Scientists have moved liquid droplets using long chemical gradients formed on graphene. The change in concentration of either fluorine or oxygen formed using a simple plasma-based process either pushes or pulls droplets of water or nerve agent simulant across the surface. This new achievement offers potential applications ranging from electronics to mechanical resonators to bio/chemical sensors.
Sep 12th, 2013
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An international team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands is advancing a novel form of nanopore technology for DNA sequencing as a result of a $2.47 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Sep 12th, 2013
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Researchers find that tiny molecules passing through nanotubes can be propelled or slowed depending on their size.
Sep 12th, 2013
Read moreElevated miR-200 boosts survival of lung, ovarian, renal, triple-negative breast cancer patients.
Sep 12th, 2013
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The award is the largest of the National Human Genome Research Institute's most recent $17 million initiative to support development of innovative technologies with the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, so that sequencing an individual's genome can become a routine part of medical research and health care.
Sep 11th, 2013
Read moreThis webinar demonstrates important new insights into graphene physics using the combination of PeakForce KPFM and the GloveBox Integrated System with guest speaker Aravind Vijayaraghavan from the University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute.
Sep 11th, 2013
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Researchers have used airbrushing techniques to grow vertically aligned carbon nanofibers on several different metal substrates, opening the door for incorporating these nanofibers into gene delivery devices, sensors, batteries and other technologies.
Sep 11th, 2013
Read moreWhether it's the Ebola virus or Sarin and Ricin, a key to responding to chemical or biological attacks is having effective antidotes at the ready. To accelerate the development of new therapies, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative Medicine is leading a unique $24 million federally funded project to develop a 'body on a chip' that will be used to develop these countermeasures.
Sep 11th, 2013
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Researchers report a highly versatile and one-pot microwave route to the mass production of three-dimensional graphene-carbon nanotube-iron oxide nanostructures for the efficient removal of arsenic from contaminated water.
Sep 11th, 2013
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By binding multiple molecules of a common leukemia drug with nanodiamonds, scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to boost the delivery of the drug to leukemic cells and retain the drug within the cells to combat the cancer.
Sep 11th, 2013
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An experimental demonstration of light scattering controlled by silicon nanoparticles augurs well for the development of integrated optical circuits.
Sep 11th, 2013
Read moreUMass Amherst polymer scientist Murugappan Muthukumar receives a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to find new ways to control the process of reading the precise order of nucleotides in DNA chains as they pass through a nanopore.
Sep 10th, 2013
Read moreCarbon nanotubes' potential as drug-carrier systems and sensors for diagnosis and therapy at a cellular level was the focus of the EU-funded project CARBIO ('Multi-functional carbon nanotubes for biomedical applications').
Sep 10th, 2013
Read moreResearchers at North Carolina State University have created a new compound that can be integrated into silicon chips and is a dilute magnetic semiconductor -- meaning that it could be used to make "spintronic" devices, which rely on magnetic force to operate, rather than electrical currents.
Sep 10th, 2013
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