German hydrogen infrastructure in place by 2015
A comprehensive nationwide infrastructure for hydrogen refueling will be in place in Germany by 2015. This is the declaration of the landmark agreement signed on September 10.
Sep 24th, 2009
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Alberta conference reveals growing enthusiasm for nanotechnology in forest products community
Held in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and co-sponsored by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, the conference revealed developments for revolutionizing paper and wood products, as well as capturing sustainability-focused markets with bionanocomposites and capitalizing on wood-derived nanocrystalline cellulose and nanofibrillar cellulose.
Sep 24th, 2009
Read moreSurface nanopatterns can produce big differences in how materials and cells behave
New findings show that tiny textures on a surface can produce big differences in how some materials, and even living cells, behave.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreLab-on-a-chip performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once
Researchers have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases such as cancer.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreTwinkling nanostars improve optical imaging of tumors
Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreNanodiamonds advance anticancer gene therapy
Two teams of researchers have developed versatile nanotechnology-enabled platforms that could get therapeutic genes safely and efficiently into cancer cells.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreGolden nanotubes detect tumor cells, map sentinel lymph nodes
Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon nanotubes that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreTitanium dioxide nanoparticles catalyze brain tumor death
Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to antibodies.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreMagnetic nanoworms and nanocrystals deliver siRNA to tumors
Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in development.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreImportant advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit
The researchers showed that they could detect the quantum correlations in the results of measurements of entangled quantum bits, using a superconducting electrical circuit.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreUniversity of Waterloo's Quantum Device Theory group shares in U.S. government grant
The Quantum Device Theory group led by Institute for Quantum Computing faculty member Dr. Frank Wilhelm will be sharing in a multi-institution grant to fund research into advanced materials for superconducting qubits.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreRice awarded $5M for light-based crystal simulator
Physicists trap atoms with light to probe high-temp superconductivity.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreJohns Hopkins nanobiotechnology summer internship helps undergrads learn research ropes
Summertime flies by when it is spent hard at work in a laboratory; but the 12 student researchers selected for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) still had plenty of fun.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read morePaper battery may power electronics in clothing and packaging material
Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That's because the wrapping paper lights up with words like Happy Birthday or Happy Holidays, thanks to a built in battery - an amazing battery made out of paper.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreLa-Ola im Nanomagneten
Hamburger Wissenschaftler bieten neuen Einblick in das Schaltverhalten kleinster Magnete.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreNew nanotechnology material kills antibiotic-resitant bacteria
Doctors are not well armed in the fight against antibiotic-resitant bacteria. It is very difficult or, in the worst case, impossible to fight such infections. A team of researchers in Germany has now developed a unique nanomaterial that kills antibiotic-resitant bacteria.
Sep 23rd, 2009
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