Nanoparticles - power to be reckoned with
The University of Leicester is the co-ordinating partner in an international project (Nanospin) involving information that can be stored on nano-particles.
Jun 22nd, 2006
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When gold becomes a catalyst
Researchers in Europe have monitored the catalytic process and proposed an explanation for the high catalytic activity of gold.
Jun 22nd, 2006
Read moreMagnetic field research could make computers 500 times more powerful
The University of Bath in the UK is to lead an international three-year project to develop a system which could cut out the need for wiring to carry electric currents in silicon chips.
Jun 22nd, 2006
Read moreBuckyballs boost antibody chemotherapy payload
In the ongoing search for better ways to target anticancer drugs to kill tumors without making people sick, researchers find that nanoparticles called buckyballs might be used to significantly boost the payload of drugs carried by tumor-targeting antibodies.
Jun 21st, 2006
Read moreMechanical masks for advanced nanofabrication devices
Aiming at developing and exploiting advanced nanostructure generation techniques, the NANOCOLD project focused on microfabrication of mechanical masks for massive parallel nanolithography.
Jun 21st, 2006
Read moreExploiting RNA in the construction of nanodevices
The University of Limerick, a participant in the IST-funded MINT project, investigated the use of folded RNA as a templating agent in the construction of nanostructures.
Jun 21st, 2006
Read moreResearchers discover how to focus on tiniest of the very small
Researchers have developed a technique to get a closer-than-ever look at individual atoms within crystal molecules -- allowing them, for the first time, to see the polarity, or physical alignment, of those constituent atoms and to get a view of the smaller atoms.
Jun 20th, 2006
Read moreSugar-based nanoparticles have potential to deliver proteins orally
A team of investigators in Spain has used two different sugars to create a nanoparticle that can entrap water-soluble molecules such as proteins.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreImaging live cells with a fluorescent magnetic nanoparticle
Investigators in France have developed a versatile new method for creating nanoparticles that are both magnetic and fluorescent.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreNanoparticles overcome solubility limitations of novel anticancer drug
Using a hybrid liposome-nanocapsule, researchers in France have developed a lipid nanocapsule that appears to overcome the solubility problem.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreNanoparticles and lasers create cancer-killing microbubbles
An international team of investigators has developed a method that uses clusters of gold nanoparticles to create vapor microbubbles that can kill targeted cells.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreSticky surfaces turn slippery with the flip of a molecular light switch
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an optically switchable material that alters its surface characteristics when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreNanospheres could revolutionize how biodiesel is produced
The researchers are after a new, high-tech catalyst that takes some of the energy, labor and toxic chemicals out of biodiesel production.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreSpinning of high strength fiber using single-walled carbon nanotubes
A research team from the Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials of the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan has developed a novel synthesis method for SWNTs (single-walled carbon nanotubes) to be the core material for nanotechnologies.
Jun 15th, 2006
Read moreToughening implants with zirconia
In the BIOKER project, funded under the European Commission GROWTH programme, methods and materials were investigated with the aim to increase the life span of ceramic-ceramic knee and hip orthopaedic implants.
Jun 14th, 2006
Read moreChemists direct silicon oxide into a selected hierarchical structure
Chemists direct silicon oxide into a selected hierarchical structure - a mechanism that until now had only been found in nature
Jun 14th, 2006
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