A mixture of current drugs and carbon nanoparticles shows potential to enhance treatment for head-and-neck cancers, especially when combined with radiation therapy, according to new research by Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreResearchers from the University of York are pioneering the development of electron microscopes which will allow scientists to examine a greater variety of materials in new revolutionary ways.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreResearchers at Polytechnique Montreal have succeeded in changing the genetic material of cancer cells using a brand-new transfection method. This major breakthrough in nanosurgery opens the door to new medical applications, among others for the treatment of cancers.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreRMIT University researchers have developed computer models to design more effective nasal sprays to provide alternate drug delivery to needles or pills.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreIn a research lab at Wake Forest University, biophysicist and computer scientist Samuel Cho uses graphics processing units (GPUs), the technology that makes videogame images so realistic, to simulate the inner workings of human cells.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreArbeitsschutzaspekte standen im Fokus der Tagung "Nanomaterialien: Risiken am Arbeitsplatz und verantwortungsvoller Umgang" am 12. Dezember 2011 am LGL. In den Vortraegen gingen die Referenten vor allem auf die derzeitig gueltigen Regelungen und den Umgang mit Nanomaterialien am Arbeitsplatz ein.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreAt the Summit on the Global Agenda 2011 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies asked some of the world's leading minds within the entire GAC Network which technology trends would have the greatest impact on the state of the world in the near future.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreResearchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have published a detailed review of recent experimental and theoretical work highlighting the unusual physics and material science of electrical contacts to nanostructures.
Feb 16th, 2012
Read moreBy adding an incredibly thin coating of alumina to a metal surface, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have doubled the rate that heat travels from a solid surface - such as a pot on a stove - into the liquid in the pot.
Feb 15th, 2012
Read moreCopper-iodide nanoparticles have long-lasting antiviral activity against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to a paper in the February issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Feb 15th, 2012
Read moreWith expanded industrial-scale production of nanomaterials fast approaching, scientists are reporting indications that dust generated during processing of nanomaterials may explode more easily than dust from wheat flour, cornstarch and most other common dust explosion hazards.
Feb 15th, 2012
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Harnessing the power of carbon nanotubes could get considerably easier, thanks to an advance by engineers from the University of South Carolina and the University of Georgia.
Feb 15th, 2012
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The project at the Lulea University of Technology to recycle cellulose sludge, for production of cellulose nanofibres is now proving to be an economic and environmental success.
Feb 15th, 2012
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The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has awarded $8.5 million to a consortium of seven U.S. universities that will work together to determine the best approach for generating quantum memories based on interaction between light and matter.
Feb 15th, 2012
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Within the stand of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), the CINN will show its novel ultralow thermal expansion ceramics, one of the most promising results developed by the CINN in recent years, in the framework of the European Project IP NANOKER.
Feb 15th, 2012
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The removal of mercury from wastewater by amalgamation with precious metals in the form of nanoparticles can be improved if the diameter of silver nanoparticles is made even smaller; then significantly more mercury can be extracted relative to the amount of silver used.
Feb 15th, 2012
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