Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a way to chemically shrink the holes in the mucus layer?s netting so that it will keep out more of the unwanted particles.
Feb 5th, 2009
Read moreThe British House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the use of nanotechnologies in the food sector.
Feb 5th, 2009
Read moreThe project, called 'Engineered Nanoparticles: Review of Health and Environmental Safety (ENRHES)', involves a survey to gather information from manufacturers and uses of nanomaterials to provide context for the scientific review and inform the risk assessment considerations.
Feb 5th, 2009
Read moreAt the University of Surrey, test tube chemistry just took a leap down in size to the nano-scale, with new test-tubes measuring only about one billionth of a metre across.
Feb 5th, 2009
Read moreAn international team of scientists led by the University of Leeds has shed new light on the little-understood motor protein called dynein, thought to be involved in progressive neurological disorders such as motor neurone disease.
Feb 5th, 2009
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Researchers have found that carbon nanotubes grow like tiny molecular tapestries, woven from twisting, single-atom threads.
Feb 5th, 2009
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Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have recently demonstrated the ability to control the spin population of the individual quantum shell states of self-assembled indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dots.
Feb 5th, 2009
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Waterproof sand - or as German scientist Helmut F. Schulze calls it - hydrophobic sand, a nanotechnology wonder seven years in the making.
Feb 5th, 2009
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University of Utah physicists and chemists developed a new method that uses a mirror of tiny silver nanoparticles so microscopes can reveal the internal structure of nearly opaque biological materials like bone or tumor cells.
Feb 4th, 2009
Read moreThe National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, on behalf of the NSET Subcommittee, will hold a February 24-25, 2009 workshop to provide an open forum to discuss the state-of-the-art of the science related to environmental, health, and safety aspects of engineered nanoscale materials in the area of Human and Environmental Exposure Assessment.
Feb 4th, 2009
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MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that produces the sturdiest product is not the arrangement with the most built-in redundancy or the most complicated pattern.
Feb 4th, 2009
Read moreACS Nanotation is sponsoring a video contest to answer the question 'What is Nano?'
Feb 4th, 2009
Read moreThe new book by John Wiley and Sons, Fuel Cells: Fundamentals (2nd edition) takes the miracle of fuels cell into the real world by introducing the basic science behind the technology.
Feb 4th, 2009
Read moreA reviewed booklist 'Nanotechnology for kids' is now available on the Microscopy Society of America's Project MICRO website.
Feb 4th, 2009
Read moreYissum Ltd., the Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, today announced that Professor Nissim Garti has received the 2009 American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) Stephen S. Chang Award for his invention of novel nanoparticles of structured lipids to improve the bioavailability of various drug, food or cosmetic ingredients.
Feb 4th, 2009
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Cal State Northridge has received $500,000 from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a two-year project that exposes undergraduate engineering and science students to the study and research of nanotechnology.
Feb 4th, 2009
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