Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals details of living tissues, diseased organs and tumors inside the body without x-rays or surgery. What if the same technology could peer down to the level of atoms?
Feb 13th, 2013
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NSF grantee Vorbeck, one of the first companies to produce graphene-based products, is expanding its operations.
Feb 13th, 2013
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A team of researchers from Russia, Spain, Belgium, the U.K. and Argonne National Laboratory announced findings last week that may represent a breakthrough in applications of superconductivity.
Feb 13th, 2013
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Stanford study is the first to demonstrate that sophisticated, engineered light resonators can be inserted inside cells without damaging the host. The researchers say it marks a new age in which tiny lasers and light-emitting diodes yield new avenues in the study and influence of living cells.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreChemists at Boston College have designed a new class of catalysts triggered by the charge of a single proton. The simple organic molecules offer a sustainable and highly efficient platform for chemical reactions that produce sets of molecules crucial to advances in medicine and the life sciences.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreChemical engineers at Johns Hopkins University have developed self-assembling particles that are inspired by origami, the traditional Japanese art of folding paper into complex three-dimensional shapes. A new article demonstrates the fabrication and folding of these particles.
Feb 13th, 2013
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A new model facilitates predictions about how nanoparticles form and gives clues about how the process can be controlled.
Feb 13th, 2013
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Imagine a cell phone charger that recharges your phone remotely without even knowing where it is; a device that targets and destroys tumors, wherever they are in the body; or a security field that can disable electronics, even a listening device hiding in a prosthetic toe, without knowing where it is. While these applications remain only dreams, researchers at the University of Maryland have come up with a sci-fi seeming technology that one day could make them real.
Feb 13th, 2013
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University of Utah engineers demonstrated it is feasible to build the first organic materials that conduct electricity on their edges, but act as an insulator inside. These materials, called organic topological insulators, could shuttle information at the speed of light in quantum computers and other high-speed electronic devices.
Feb 13th, 2013
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Experimental measurements and modeling resolve two decades of debate.
Feb 13th, 2013
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A new review looks at the effects of the orientation of a graphene sheet, the edge structure of carbon nanofibers, and different surface functional groups on proton affinity, interactions with metal nanoparticles, and electronic modification of these structures, together with their catalytic consequences.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreAs part of an international study, a team of researchers has adapted some of these natural mechanisms to detect specific molecules such as cocaine more accurately and quickly. Their work may greatly facilitate the rapid screening - less than five minutes - of many drugs, infectious diseases, and cancers.
Feb 13th, 2013
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Got a 'little crush' on someone this Valentine's Day? Maybe you've been hit by a little arrow belonging to this cupid made from carbon nanotubes by Brigham Young University physics students.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreAlthough the strategic importance of nanotechnologies has been recognized in Italy, and there is substantial and growing activities in research as well as in industry, there is no strategic government plan and it is difficult to find up to date information.
Feb 13th, 2013
Read moreAn award to help engineers and scientists commercialise early stage research and enable the exploitation of new and exciting ideas in the field of materials science has been launched.
Feb 13th, 2013
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Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland have demonstrated that a new spectroscopy technique can simultaneously measure a material's topography and chemical composition with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
Feb 13th, 2013
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