University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.
Sep 28th, 2009
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Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called 'excitons' that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality.
Sep 27th, 2009
Read moreThe NanoTeach project announces a NSF-funded opportunity for high school science teachers to participate in professional development to support the integration of nanoscience and technology into their existing curricula.
Sep 25th, 2009
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The National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system - the first of its kind in Alabama - that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreThe RUSNANO Supervisory Council has agreed to co-finance a project for the manufacture of nano-ink and hi-tech digital printing equipment.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreDecision-making on science - especially emerging technologies such as nanotechnology - must become more democratic, a new report on science policy released today argues.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreProfessor Ian W Boyd of the London Centre for Nanotechnology will take the first leadership role over the new Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication from the 1st of October.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the University of Kurdistan have devised special electrochemical nanosensors to measure diabetic patients' insulin level.
Sep 25th, 2009
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Porous coordination polymers that strongly adsorb polar guest molecules can be made using a ligand with separated positive and negative charges.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreTitanium dioxide nanotubes can now attain a quality, which was until recently missing: an electrical conductivity that resembles those of metals.
Sep 25th, 2009
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Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in electronic, thermal, mechanical and sensing devices for the Air Force.
Sep 25th, 2009
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New chemical sensor chips made with carbon nanotubes could enable rapid, low-cost detection of TNT and poison in rivers, reservoirs.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreTo test whether graphene, a good conductor on its own, can help, researchers at PNNL added graphene, sheets made up of single carbon atoms, to titanium dioxide.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreDisease diagnosis, toxin detection and more are possible with DNA-graphene nanostructure.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreA nanomedicine research group led by a University of Toronto chemist has received a $5-million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), giving them the green light to develop faster ways of detecting leukemia and lung cancer cells.
Sep 25th, 2009
Read moreDiscovery of way to balance effects of 2 drugs sets stage for safer pain relief.
Sep 25th, 2009
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