Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new technique for growing slimmer copper nanorods, a key step for advancing integrated 3-D chip technology.
Mar 17th, 2009
Read moreDr. Paul Corkum, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Ottawa and attosecond science researcher at the National Research Council Canada (NRC), is this year's winner of Canada's most prestigious science prize.
Mar 17th, 2009
Read moreMedizinische Anwendungen der Nanotechnologie waren Thema der 6. NanoMed-Konferenz in Berlin.
Mar 17th, 2009
Read moreA lot of high pressure materials can be made, but once the pressure is reduced they go back to their original form. People cannot make anything useful from those materials. But a new alloy is quenchable, meaning that the alloy persists when the pressure is gone.
Mar 17th, 2009
Read moreThis comprehensive book covers various aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology and what is known about the potential environmental and health impacts.
Mar 16th, 2009
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Materials containing bimetallic nanoparticles are attractive in vast technological fields because of their unique catalytic, electronic, and magnetic properties. One of the most promising of the bunch is made from palladium and gold, an alloy that could be used in a wide variety of catalytic activities including the water-gas shift reaction and the oxidation of carbon dioxide - both important steps in alternative energy applications like fuel cells.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreContinuing to remain at the forefront of using cutting-edge technology to meet societal needs, IIT-Madras is filing a patent on two new applications of nanotechnology for removal of dyes from waste water released from textile mills and for more efficient drug delivery in cancer treatment.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreThe UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has called for a precautionary approach to the use of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in its new information sheet, released this month.
Mar 16th, 2009
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Scientists have designed nanoparticles that function like 'guided missiles' in the targeted destruction of breast cancer cells.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreThe result might help understand chemical processes in energy generation or pollution cleanup.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreThe survey, which looked at the situation of academic research in Israel, reveals that the average investment per Israeli investor averages USD 1.1 million. It is estimated that some USD 320 million were invested, to date, in academic research.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreUsing rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, where at a certain temperature two different states of liquid silicon exist.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreOn January 16, 1984, the memorandum of association of IMEC was signed, and on March 15, now exactly 25 years ago, IMEC appeared as newly established research center in the Belgian Statute Books.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreTo keep the manufacturing and the larger community well informed about what's radical and revolutionary in innovation, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) announces its annual Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture.
Mar 16th, 2009
Read moreThe Polymer Chemistry Research Group at the University of Helsinki, Finland, has succeeded in producing nano-sized metallic copper particles.
Mar 16th, 2009
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A researcher has developed probes that can help pinpoint the location of tumors and might one day be able to directly attack cancer cells.
Mar 16th, 2009
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