In honor of its first issue, Nano Today: An International Rapid Reviews Journal ran a best nano-related image competition for publication on the cover for one of six 2009 issues.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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Japanese researchers have developed a way of soldering metal wires together on the nanoscale. The method will open the door to applications in nanocircuitry, they claim.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions with nanoscale measurement sensitivity.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreThe McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT today announced six awards to develop new technologies for neuroscience research.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreA team of scientists at Arkansas Nanotechnology Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has developed what promises to be a non-invasive method of eradicating cancer cells while reducing the life-threatening side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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Researchers have developed a novel optical fiber that enables transmission of ultrashort light pulses with an unprecedented low degree of distortions. The researchers transmitted light pulses of 13 fs duration over one meter distance, with the pulses only stretching to about double of the initial duration.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreA novel computational biology method developed by a research team led by Ali Abdi, PhD, associate professor in NJIT's department of electrical and computer engineering, has found a way to uncover the critical genes responsible for disease development.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreThe Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) at Johns Hopkins University strives to be integrative and multidisciplinary. With 170 faculty and more than two dozen graduate students and undergraduates with backgrounds as diverse as physics and computational medicine, the institute has sought to broaden skills and foster collaborations among its student body and its faculty members.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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Quantum dots have been studied in lasers, solar paneling, and biomedical therapeutics. Nina Markovic, affiliated faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology and assistant professor of physics in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, believes this emerging technology will prove important in cancer therapies, energy transmission, and drug delivery.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreThe U.S. Department of Energy's Technology Transfer Coordinator, Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach, announced today two new model agreements that will expand access to DOE's world-class research facilities by academia and industry.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreAphios Corporation today announced receipt of a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop an improved oral formulation for marijuana addiction and unmet medical needs.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
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A group of researchers led by Adrian Bachtold of the CIN2 laboratory in Spain has developed an ultrasensitive mass sensor, which can measure tiny amounts of mass with atomic precision, and with an unprecedented resolution to date.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreResearchers working in the European ROLLED project have developed a flexible OLED element that can be mass produced using roll-to-roll printing technology.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreEin internationales Forscherteam, dem auch LMU-Wissenschaftler angehoeren, konnte nun zeigen, dass Defekte in den Nanoroehren das Material sogar verbessern koennten.
Posted: Oct 28th, 2008
Read moreHarnessing the process of biomineralization may be closer to reality as an international team of scientists has detailed a key and previously hidden mechanism to transform amorphous calcium carbonate into calcite, the stuff of seashells.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
Read moreA new nanoparticle-enabled imaging method for breast cancer, utilizing encapsulated fluorescent molecules in calcium phosphate nanoparticles and nontoxic near infrared imaging, has been developed by a team of scientists from Penn State.
Posted: Oct 27th, 2008
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