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Applied physicists discover that migrating cells flow like glass

Harvard-led research advances understanding of wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic development.

February 22, 2011 Read more

Liquid metal key to simpler creation of electrodes for microfluidic devices

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a faster, easier way to create microelectrodes, for use in microfluidic devices, by using liquid metal. Microfluidic devices manipulate small amounts of fluid and have a wide variety of applications, from testing minute blood samples to performing advanced chemical research.

February 22, 2011 Read more

Research breakthrough for photons in the microwave frequency range

Photons in the microwave frequency range are important in quantum research - for quantum information processors, for example. Now, for the first time, researchers have achieved the controlled production of single photons in the microwave region and successfully detected them with highly sensitive measuring instruments - although they are 100,000 times weaker than the photons emitted by an electric light bulb.

February 22, 2011 Read more

World Gold Council launches initiative to accelerate the development of emerging technologies utilising gold

The World Gold Council today announced that it is to play a pivotal role in the transition of new gold-based innovations from 'lab' to 'market'. There has been an explosion of interest in the use of gold in science and technology, mainly driven by the emergence of nanotechnology, yet breakthroughs in research are slow to achieve commercial success due to lack of further targeted investment and support.

February 22, 2011 Read more

Nano-sized vaccines

New MIT nanoparticles could lead to powerful vaccines for HIV and other diseases.

February 22, 2011 Read more

Fourth issue of Nanotech Insights newsletter available

The first 2011 issue of Nanotech Insights, a quarterly newsletter dedicated to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology, is now available from CKMNT.

February 22, 2011 Read more

A nano-solution to global water problem: Nanomembranes could filter bacteria

Working with a special kind of polymer called a block copolymer, a UB research team has synthesized a new kind of nanomembrane containing pores about 55 nanometers in diameter -- large enough for water to slip through easily, but too small for bacteria.

February 21, 2011 Read more

Nanotechnology may lead to new treatment of liver cancer

Nanotechnology may open a new door on the treatment of liver cancer, according to a team of Penn State College of Medicine researchers. They used molecular-sized bubbles filled with chemotherapy drugs to prevent cell growth and initiate cell death in test tubes and mice.

February 21, 2011 Read more

Could a membrane help rescue us from a climatic catastrophe?

Plant photosynthesis depends on membranes, and human beings would be unable to hear without the membrane we call the eardrum. Could yet another membrane help rescue us from a climatic catastrophe?

February 21, 2011 Read more

Atomic structure of nanoparticles measured

For the first time, scientists have managed to measure the atomic structure of individual nanoparticles. The experimental data could help better understand the properties of nanoparticles in future.

February 21, 2011 Read more

Nanomedicine 2011 - 3rd ESF Summer School

The ESF Summer School Nanomedicine 2011 on June 19-24, 2011 in Wittenberg, Germany, has been designed to provide an intensive state-of the- art training across all of the sub-disciplines of Nanomedicine, and to foster discussion and exchange of ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.

February 21, 2011 Read more

Smallest magnetic field sensor in the world combines spintronics and molecular electronics

For the first time, a team of scientists from KIT and the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Materiaux de Strasbourg (IPCMS) have now succeeded in combining the concepts of spin electronics and molecular electronics in a single component consisting of a single molecule.

February 21, 2011 Read more

Carbon nanomaterials - nanomaterials for life sciences

The exiting book series Nanomaterials for the Life Sciences, successor to the highly acclaimed series Nanotechnology for the Life Sciences, provides an in-depth overview of all nanomaterial types and their uses in the life sciences.

February 21, 2011 Read more

Manipulating molecules for a new breed of electronics

In research appearing in today's issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, Nongjian "NJ" Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University, has demonstrated a clever way of controlling electrical conductance of a single molecule, by exploiting the molecule's mechanical properties.

February 20, 2011 Read more

Researchers develop new technology for cheaper, more efficient solar cells

Stanford researchers have found that adding a single layer of organic molecules to a solar cell can increase its efficiency three-fold and could lead to cheaper, more efficient solar panels.

February 20, 2011 Read more

Plants that can move inspire new adaptive structures

The Mimosa plant, which folds its leaves when they're touched, is inspiring a new class of adaptive structures designed to twist, bend, stiffen and even heal themselves.

February 19, 2011 Read more