A new study from North Carolina State University shows that size plays a key role in determining the structure of certain hollow nanoparticles. The researchers focused on nickel nanoparticles, which have interesting magnetic and catalytic properties that may have applications in fields as diverse as energy production and nanoelectronics.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreResearchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for identifying genetic variation, including mutations, in active genes. Hopes are strong that the method represents an important research tool that will lead to the development of new diagnostic tests.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreAt the German Physical Society's annual Spring meeting the organization's Surface Science division selected Dr. Leo Gross, IBM Research - Zurich, for the Gerhard Ertl Young Investigator Award, a new scientific prize created and supported by Surface Science, a journal of Reed Elsevier. Gross was selected as the prize recipient for his work on charge measurement of atoms and atomic resolution of molecules with noncontact atomic force microscopy.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreLeaders in the semiconductor industry will focus on economic challenges in advanced lithography during the fourth biannual SEMATECH Litho Forum May 10-12 at the Marriott Marquis in New York, NY.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreNYU Langone Medical Center researchers have developed a powerful new method to investigate the discrete steps necessary to turn on individual genes and examine how the process goes wrong in cancer and other diseases.
Apr 12th, 2010
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Physicists of the Max Born Institute in Berlin report that electrons in semiconductor crystals have a negative inertial mass when strongly accelerated in an electric field.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreNanoparticles are recognized as promising building blocks for future applications, however their fixation on surfaces or in a matrix is everything else than a simple task. Now physicists observed that a double layer of spherical C60 carbon-molecules, called fullerenes, is an ideal substrate for these microscopic particles.
Apr 12th, 2010
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A study released this week suggests that anti-cancer chemotherapies which use nanoparticles to deliver drugs deep inside tumor tissue will be more effective if the particles are positively electrically charged because they are taken up to a greater extent by proliferating cells.
Apr 12th, 2010
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A team of researchers, led by Macquarie University Associate Professor James Rabeau, have discovered that the properties of light emitted from tiny isolated nano-diamonds are completely different from their larger relatives.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreLooking to push the boundaries of nanoscience, the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science is no longer a think tank for new ideas, but a proving ground to aggressively push the limits of nanotechnology.
Apr 12th, 2010
Read moreA team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth. In this case, the team used a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.
Apr 11th, 2010
Read moreResearchers from Nanyang Technological University's School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS) have taken a major step forward in the effort to understand and engineer protein structure, which could lead to potential benefits in the fields of drug design and nanomaterials.
Apr 11th, 2010
Read moreLockheed Martin is sponsoring the Year of the Nano, Rice's celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the buckminsterfullerene molecule -- the 'buckyball' -- that enables nanotechnology.
Apr 9th, 2010
Read moreThe latest research currently being conducted in India has shown that nanoparticles can promote the growth of fungi and even assist plant growth.
Apr 9th, 2010
Read moreSignificant findings about protein architecture may aid in drug design, generation of nanomaterials.
Apr 9th, 2010
Read moreTo make large sheets of carbon available for light collection, Indiana University Bloomington chemists have devised an unusual solution -- attach what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of the carbon sheet.
Apr 9th, 2010
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