Researchers at North Carolina State University have created the first coils of silicon nanowire on a substrate that can be stretched to more than double their original length, moving us closer to incorporating stretchable electronic devices into clothing, implantable health-monitoring devices, and a host of other applications.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
Initiatives will support nanoscale innovation and workforce training across a variety of critical sectors.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
Many futurists envision a world in which polymer membranes with molecular-sized channels are used to capture carbon, produce solar-based fuels, or desalinate sea water, among many other functions. This will require methods by which such membranes can be readily fabricated in bulk quantities. A technique representing a significant first step down that road has now been successfully demonstrated.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
American Humboldt Award winner Ralph G. Nuzzo will spend a several-months research period at KIT and at Bielefeld University.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
A group of researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have designed and developed a biomedical scanner that detects cellular processes at the molecular level and indicates malfunctioning of an organ before said malfunction can produce an anatomical change.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
A ew system that combines two different technologies proposes to break down contaminants using the cheapest possible energy source, sunlight. Microfluidics - transporting water through tiny channels - and photocatalysis - using light to break down impurities - come together in the science of optofluidics.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
Scientists introduce DNA directly into the cell nucleus using protein nanodisks.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
This workshop will consider what has happened in the year since the publication of the House of Lords Report and also the other associated reports and their implications for the food and drink industry.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
The new nanoparticle, which delivers the drug in a form activated when it reaches its target, also treats tumors more effectively than the unadorned drug in mice.
Jan 11th, 2011
Read more
Scientists have invented a way to 'watch' proteins fold - in less than thousandths of a second - into the elaborate twisted shapes that determine their function.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more
A team of scientists has created particles that closely mirror some of the key properties of red blood cells, potentially helping pave the way for the development of synthetic blood.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more
In recent years, developers have been investigating light-harvesting thin film solar panels made from nanotechnology - and promoting efficiency metrics to make the technology marketable. Now a Tel Aviv University researcher is providing new evidence to challenge recent charge measurements for increasing solar panel efficiency.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more
Elsevier announced today that DIAMOND 2011, 22nd European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-Like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes and Nitrides, will occur on 4-8 September 2011 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more
A team led by Dr. Sherif El-Safty, Exploratory Materials Research Laboratory for Energy and Environment, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), fabricated tight mosaic cage silica nanotubes inside anodic alumina membranes as a promising candidate nanofilter for high-speed (within several seconds) size-exclusion separation of high concentration macromolecules.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more
Grant will help Boston College chemist Dunwei Wang refine clean energy tech and expand community outreach.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more
Versatile liquid pistons developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have no solid moving parts, essentially eliminating wear.
Jan 10th, 2011
Read more