A new nanocoating ensures a perfectly non-reflecting view on displays and through eyeglasses. The necessary surface structure is applied to the polymeric parts during manufacture, obviating the need for a separate process step. The hybrid coating has further advantages: the components are scratch-proof and easy to clean.
May 1st, 2010
Read moreIs smell a personal sense, one that is specific to culture? No, says an Israeli team of scientists who have successfully 'trained' an electronic system capable of predicting the pleasantness of new odours.
Apr 30th, 2010
Read moreA team of scientists at UC Santa Barbara that helped pioneer research into the quantum properties of a small defect found in diamonds has now used cutting-edge computational techniques to produce a road map for studying defects in alternative materials.
Apr 30th, 2010
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Scientists have discovered how cells ensure the correct distribution of proteins throughout their interior. What they have found is that many of the proteins which need to be transported to the cell membrane are furnished with a kind of anchor consisting of a fatty acid, which serves to embed the proteins in the cell membrane.
Apr 30th, 2010
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Hydrogen would command a key role in future renewable energy technologies, experts agree, if a relatively cheap, efficient and carbon-neutral means of producing it can be developed. An important step towards this elusive goal has been taken by a team of researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley.
Apr 30th, 2010
Read more'Children are not small adults' - pediatricians say that's what makes their specialty different from the practice of medicine in adults. For similar reasons, researchers exploring the medical uses of nanotechnology believe that the use of molecular-level nanomedicine techniques in children will also require its own specialty.
Apr 30th, 2010
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Combine liquid crystals (mesogens) and metal clusters and you get clustomesogens - a new class of compounds, the first examples of which have now been produced.
Apr 30th, 2010
Read moreScientists have succeeded for the first time in making, out of DNA double stands, an interlocked molecule (rotaxane) with freely moveable components. This opens up exciting possibilities for nanorobotics and synthetic biology.
Apr 30th, 2010
Read moreScientists have succeeded in introducing a molecular probe into a protein and tracking the changes caused by it in detail using spectroscopy.
Apr 30th, 2010
Read moreThe application of nanotechnology will have a major influence in many fields of medicine. Novel nano-based materials appear in drug delivery systems, diagnostics, imaging, biosensing, and medical materials and devices.
Apr 30th, 2010
Read moreResearchers have developed a way to enhance how brain tumors appear in MRI scans and during surgery, making the tumors easier for surgeons to identify and remove.
Apr 29th, 2010
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Wolfgang Kraetschmer has been awarded the European Inventor Award 2010 in the category of 'lifetime achievement' for the development of the synthesis of fullerenes like C60
Apr 29th, 2010
Read moreForget what you know about how diseases are diagnosed. New research details a noninvasive ground-breaking tool that detects signs of disease at early molecular stages before symptoms can be seen using traditional methods.
Apr 29th, 2010
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New method reveals how individual nerve cells process visual input.
Apr 29th, 2010
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Forschern ist es gelungen, eine molekulare Sonde in ein Protein einzubauen und deren Veraenderungen waehrend der Arbeit des Proteins im Detail spektroskopisch zu verfolgen.
Apr 29th, 2010
Read moreIf you are looking for a good introduction to nanotechnology, this video from Cambridge University, nicely narrated by Stephen Fry, will do the job.
Apr 29th, 2010
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