Tweaking organic semiconductors to control stacking order
Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Seoul National University (SNU) have learned how to tweak a new class of polymer-based semiconductors to better control the location and alignment of the components of the blend.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNSF-funded nanotechnology risk study will trace path of nanomaterials
Researchers want to know if particles can be transported through food chain.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNanotechnology's role in building sustainable cities a topic of Futuropolis 2058 conference
Futuropolis 2058 conference will be during week-long celebration of opening of Fusionopolis, Singapore's science and technology powerhouse
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNanophysiometer detects chemical signals from immune cells
Scientists have detected previously unnoticed chemical signals that individual cells in the immune system use to communicate with each other over short distances.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNew amplitude spectroscopy technique to study the properties of artificial atoms
MIT researchers may have found a way to overcome a key barrier to the advent of super-fast quantum computers, which could be powerful tools for applications such as code breaking.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNanoscale double-emulsions hold potential for targeted drug delivery
UCLA scientists have succeeded in making unique nanoscale droplets that are much smaller than a human cell and can potentially be used to deliver pharmaceuticals.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNew study tackles potential impact of inhaled nanometals
Three Johns Hopkins University researchers affiliated with the Institute for NanoBioTechnology hope to gain some insight by studying the ability of nanometals to access lung tissues, their potential to trigger pro-inflammatory reactions by cells that line the lung airways, and even the extent to which workers are exposed in a nanomaterials manufacturing setting.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreInaugural presentation of Kavli Prize will take place on September 9
Seven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics will receive the first Kavli Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNanophotonics pioneer Halas wins one of nanotechnology's top academic honors
Nanophotonics pioneer honored for contributions to nanoparticle synthesis
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreCanada announces investment in nanotechnology coatings for next generation fighter jets
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, today announced federal government support for the research and development of next-generation nanotechnology-based coatings for the multinational Joint Strike Fighter program.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreMolecular mechanism of cell death through oxidative stress decrypted
Dr. Marcus Conrad of the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology and Tumor Genetics at the Helmholtz Zentrum Munich has decrypted the molecular mechanism through which the death of cells is caused by oxidative stress.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreMehr Energieeffizienz im Mikro- und Nanobereich
Der Cluster 'Cool Silicon - Energy Efficiency Innovations from Silicon Saxony' ist einer der Sieger des mit 200 Millionen Euro dotierten bundesweitem Spitzencluster-Wettbewerb.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreNanoteilchen schubsen: Forscher untersuchen Reibungsprozesse auf kleinster Ebene
Wissenschaftler wollen die grundlegenden Mechanismen der Reibung verstehen und untersuchen die Prozesse auf allerkleinster Ebene: im Nanobereich.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreHarry Potter beware! Chinese scientists demonstrate how to unmask your invisibility cloak
According to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's open-access journal, certain materials underneath an invisibility cloak would allow invisible objects be seen again.
Posted: Sep 3rd, 2008
Read moreScientists observe the change from cooperative to individual behavior in electrons with different speeds
Electrons have something in common with people: the more information they acquire about their setting, the more they become aware of their individuality and the more belonging to a group loses its importance. As a result, the coherent harmony that binds the electrons into a fixed relationship with their environment is lost.
Posted: Sep 2nd, 2008
Read moreDevelopment of chemical probes for human biology gets push with $86 million grant
Researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT today announced that they have been chosen to receive a six-year, $86M grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to identify and develop molecular tools known as 'small molecules', which can probe the proteins, signaling pathways and cellular processes that are crucial to human health and disease.
Posted: Sep 2nd, 2008
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