Max Planck scientists have discovered how to regulate the formation of proteins in the chloroplasts. They can use so-called riboswitches to switch the genes in the chloroplasts of tobacco plants on and off.
Mar 30th, 2010
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Nature likes some symmetries, but dislikes others. Ordered solids often display a so-called 6-fold rotation symmetry. To achieve this kind of symmetry, the atoms in a plane surround themselves with six neighbours in an arrangement similar to that found in a honeycomb. As opposed to this, ordered materials with 7-fold, 9-fold or 11-fold symmetries do not appear to arise in nature.
Mar 30th, 2010
Read moreUniversity College London is involved in two new nanotechnology projects that seek to turn carbon dioxide into useful products.
Mar 30th, 2010
Read moreImec announces that it has started work, together with its project partners, on PRIMA, a project under the EU's 7th framework program for ICT (FP7). The project's goal is to improve the efficiency and cost of solar cells though the use of metallic nanostructures.
Mar 30th, 2010
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Preliminary research on cancer treatments using nanotechnology and laser therapy has led to a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for Marissa Nichole Rylander, Virginia Tech assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Virginia Tech - Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (SBES)
Mar 30th, 2010
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Professor Gary Marchant, Executive Director of the Center for Law, Science and Innovation at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, will deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday, March 30, at a national nanotechnology conference in Arlington, Va.
Mar 29th, 2010
Read moreEducational displays at Crossgates Mall will showcase innovative research in clean energy, health care.
Mar 29th, 2010
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Scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor, a sheet of four pairs of molecules less than one nanometer wide.
Mar 29th, 2010
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For the first time ever, a study of this new mathematical model has managed to describe the fracture process for materials such as glass, polymers, concrete, ceramics, metals, rocks, and even certain geological fractures.
Mar 29th, 2010
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Physiker der Universitaet des Saarlandes haben jetzt eine Technologie entwickelt, mit der Rastersonden-Mikroskope um das Tausendfache beschleunigt werden koennen.
Mar 29th, 2010
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New research from mechanical engineers at MIT has revealed a new approach that, by creating specific kinds of tiny structures on a material's surface, can make a droplet spread only in a single direction.
Mar 29th, 2010
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Dem IBM Thomas J. Watson Forschungszentrum ist es in Kooperation mit Thomas Mueller vom Institut fuer Photonik der TU Wien erstmals gelungen, auf Graphen basierende Photodetektoren herzustellen.
Mar 29th, 2010
Read moreResearchers have developed tiny probes comprising gold-coated particles. These can be inserted into cells, enabling diseases to be detected and monitored remotely using light from a laser.
Mar 29th, 2010
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By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what are believed to be the first self-powered nanometer-scale sensing devices that draw power from the conversion of mechanical energy.
Mar 28th, 2010
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The inaugural issue of Nanotech Insights, a quarterly newsletter dedicated to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, is now available online on the CKMNT website.
Mar 27th, 2010
Read moreGroundbreaking curriculum to offer unparalleled education and training to support nanotechnology career opportunities and development of New York's high-tech workforce.
Mar 27th, 2010
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