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How do cells die? Biophotonic tools reveal real-time dynamics in living color

New method can facilitate customized molecular medicine.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Collaboration leads to simpler method for building varieties of nanocrystal superlattices

Collaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Hiroyuki Yano featured keynoter at TAPPI nanotechnology conference

Dr. Hiroyuki Yano will make a keynote presentation at the 2010 International Conference on Nanotechnology for the Forest Products Industry. The theme of this year's event is 'Getting Down to Business with Nanotech Products'.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Nanotechnology for the food industry - course

This broad and practically oriented course has been put forward to meet the needs from industries to gain knowledge and understanding about current research going on in this expansive field.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Simple way to separate nano-pollutants

The Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciencies (IPC PAS) developed an innovative sewage treatment process allowing nanometric size pollutants to be separated.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Nanomedicine researchers use nanoparticles as destructive beacons to zap tumors

A group of researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center is developing a way to treat cancer by using lasers to light up tiny nanoparticles and destroy tumors with the ensuing heat.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Researchers share nanotechnology knowledge at NanoFormulation2010 event

The event brought together 17 research institutions including the University of Sydney, the University of Manchester, Bayer CropScience and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, to share their latest advances. 172 delegates attended the conference with 45 scientific posters displayed.

July 22, 2010 Read more

American Society for Nanomedicine (ASNM) to hold international conference

The American Society for Nanomedicine (ASNM) is holding its second annual conference on October 14-16, 2010 in the Washington, D.C. area, where some of the biggest stakeholders in this emerging technology operate and practice.

July 22, 2010 Read more

Invisibility cloak uses magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light

A researcher has found ways to use magnetic resonance to capture rays of visible light and route them around objects, rendering those objects invisible to the human eye.

July 21, 2010 Read more

Quantum entanglement in photosynthesis and evolution

Recently, academic debate has been swirling around the existence of unusual quantum mechanical effects in the most ubiquitous of phenomena, including photosynthesis, the process by which organisms convert light into chemical energy.

July 21, 2010 Read more

Nanotechnology coatings produce 20 times more electricity from sewage

Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity production about 20 times.

July 21, 2010 Read more

Bringing nanotechnology to market

Northeastern University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has received a $2 million grant to help commercialize nanotechnology and put smaller, more energy efficient electronic devices in the hands of consumers more quickly.

July 21, 2010 Read more

Toward a new generation of superplastics

Scientists are reporting an in-depth validation of the discovery of the world's first mass producible, low-cost, organoclays for plastics. The powdered material, made from natural clay, would be a safer, more environmentally friendly replacement for the compound widely used to make plastics nanocomposites.

July 21, 2010 Read more

New antibacterial graphene-based material for bandages, food packaging, shoes

A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications that range from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresher longer to shoes that ward off foot odor.

July 21, 2010 Read more

Nanoribbons for graphene transistors for tomorrow's nanoelectronics

Scientists report how they have managed for the first time to grow graphene ribbons that are just a few nanometres wide using a simple surface-based chemical method. Graphene ribbons are considered to be hot candidates for future electronics applications as their properties can be adjusted through width and edge shape.

July 21, 2010 Read more

Researchers simplify process to make nanowires

Researchers came up with a process simple enough to be achievable with a nine-volt battery. The researchers apply an electrical charge to the nanostructures during the manufacturing process, charging each tiny wire and making it repel its neighbor.

July 21, 2010 Read more