When combined with biological molecules, such as antibodies, carbon nanotubes have the potential to perform a range of new and useful functions in miniature biotechnology devices - from detecting breast cancer cells to the Penn-Alabama State team's salmonella project.
Oct 25th, 2011
Read moreResearchers from Spain and Belgium report on the innovative use of carbon nanotubes to create mechanical components for use in a new generation of micro-machines.
Oct 25th, 2011
Read moreAbout every three days, Colleen Alexander, a chemistry graduate student, feeds cells that cause a deadly type of brain cancer. It's a ritual that involves assessing the health of the cells under a microscope, washing away dead cells with a special solution and instilling clean medium that will nurture the living cells and generate new ones. At some point, these cells will be subjected to chemotherapy agents attached to nanoparticles made of gold.
Oct 25th, 2011
Read moreFrom January 1, 2012 ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG will be funding a group of young researchers from Ruhr University Bochum. The computer scientists and mathematicians will carry out research jointly with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Advanced Materials Simulation (ICAMS) over a period of six years.
Oct 25th, 2011
Read moreMarga Lensen forscht mit dem Sofja-Kovalevskaja-Preis beim Exzellenzcluster UniCat an der TU Berlin.
Oct 25th, 2011
Read moreThe 2012 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits, to be held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Honolulu, HI, June 12-14, 2012 (Technology) and June 13-15, 2012 (Circuits), announce their respective Calls for Papers.
Oct 24th, 2011
Read moreCNSE's Halfmoon, NY facility will retain 17 green collar jobs and create opportunities to grow high-tech workforce while enabling advances in CIGS-based thin film solar cells.
Oct 24th, 2011
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If you've ever eaten from silverware or worn copper jewelry, you've been in a perfect storm in which nanoparticles were dropped into the environment, say scientists at the University of Oregon.
Oct 24th, 2011
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Researchers in Austria have come up with new ideas to engineer exotic, so-called 'topological states of matter' in quantum mechanical many-body systems.
Oct 24th, 2011
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Purdue University have shown that the semiconductor material gallium nitride (GaN) is non-toxic and is compatible with human cells - opening the door to the material's use in a variety of biomedical implant technologies.
Oct 24th, 2011
Read moreNew class of affinity reagents, DNA synbodies, gets four million dollar NIH boost.
Oct 24th, 2011
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Imagine having skin so supple you could stretch it out to more than twice its normal length in any direction - repeatedly - yet it would always snap back completely wrinkle-free when you let go of it. You would certainly never need Botox.
Oct 24th, 2011
Read moreThe mechanisms and the timescale of charge separation in photovoltaics have been the subject of controversial scientific debate for many years. Scientists ave now been able to dissect the process in detail.
Oct 24th, 2011
Read moreResearchers have developed a novel approach in which two orthogonal Wilhelmy plates have been utilized to measure the surface pressure in the two directions.
Oct 24th, 2011
Read moreNeCEN, a new high quality centre for electron microscopy, opens its doors in Leiden on October 27th. NeCEN has two of the most advanced cryo-transmission electron microscopes worldwide.
Oct 24th, 2011
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Due to a recently discovered effect in magnetic tunnel structures, thermoelectric voltages in nano-electronic junctions can be controlled.
Oct 24th, 2011
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