Thin carbon sheets enhance titanium dioxide-based batteries
To 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 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
Read moreScientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been able to confirm the production of the superheavy element 114.
Sep 24th, 2009
Read moreThe University of Twente will contribute to the Enhanced Oil Recovery Exploratory Research Program (ExploRe) from the energy company BP.
Sep 24th, 2009
Read moreA two-day nanotechnology symposium will be held Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24 and 25, in the Whitaker Hall auditorium to highlight the opening of Washington University's nano research center.
Sep 24th, 2009
Read moreA 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
Read moreHeld 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 moreNew 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 moreResearchers 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 moreResearchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreTwo teams of researchers have developed versatile nanotechnology-enabled platforms that could get therapeutic genes safely and efficiently into cancer cells.
Sep 23rd, 2009
Read moreBiomedical 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 moreScientists 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 moreSmall 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
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