Engineers at Purdue and Stanford universities have created stretchable electrodes to study how cardiac muscle cells, neurons and other cells react to mechanical stresses from heart attacks, traumatic brain injuries and other diseases.
Jan 22nd, 2009
Read moreIn a report published by DEFRA this week, the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, together with a team of multi-disciplinary experts presents an informed commentary and research agenda toward elucidating the importance of translocation in nanoparticle toxicology.
Jan 22nd, 2009
Read moreOn March 4 - 6, 2009, international experts will gather in Berlin for the NanoMed 2009 conference to discuss the state of the art in medical applications of nanotechnology.
Jan 22nd, 2009
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered a new method for controlling the nature of graphene, bringing academia and industry potentially one step closer to realizing the mass production of graphene-based nanoelectronics.
Jan 21st, 2009
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Researchers have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function.
Jan 21st, 2009
Read moreAfter announcing last April a method for growing exceptionally long, straight, numerous and well-aligned carbon cylinders only a few atoms thick, a Duke University-led team of chemists has now modified that process to create exclusively semiconducting versions of these single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Jan 21st, 2009
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The smallest mechanical switch plus an electronic switch of a type never seen before. That's how physicist Marius Trouwborst sums up the results of his PhD research on electric current through atoms and molecules.
Jan 21st, 2009
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While most teenagers are at the beach this summer, 12 high school pupils from across the country are busy in the laboratory at the inaugural NanoCamp at Massey University's Manawatu campus.
Jan 20th, 2009
Read moreElsevier today announced the launch of SciTopics, a free online expert-generated knowledge sharing service for the research community to quickly offer scientific, technical and medical knowledge on a variety of subjects.
Jan 20th, 2009
Read moreSage Publications are inviting academic editorial contributors to the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, a new reference for undergraduate students and the general public.
Jan 20th, 2009
Read moreThe collaboration is about Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) which is an advanced technology for depositing thin film materials in highly controlled manner for integrated circuits and other applications.
Jan 20th, 2009
Read moreThe Josephson effect is the phenomenon of current flow across two weakly coupled superconductors, separated by a very thin insulating barrier. It has important applications in quantum-mechanical circuits, such as superconducting quantum interference devices.
Jan 20th, 2009
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Jordi Pascual, Director del Institut Catala de Nanotecnologia, y Nicolas Garcia, Director del laboratorio de Fisica de Sistemas pequenos y Nanotecnologia, nos acompanan en el plato para ver las posibilidades de esta ciencia tan prometedora.
Jan 20th, 2009
Read moreA range of complex surgical operations necessary to treat stroke victims, confront hardened arteries or address blockages in the bloodstream are about to be made safer as researchers from the Micro/Nanophysics Research Laboratory at Australia?s Monash University put the final touches to the design of micro-motors small enough to be injected into the human bloodstream.
Jan 19th, 2009
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How and why materials crack is the subject of a research paper just published in the journal Nature by a team in Cambridge University's Department of Engineering.
Jan 19th, 2009
Read moreThe creation of a reproducible crystallisation process is a fundamental challenge to drug manufacturers, but a technique which provides real time detailed analyses of chemical processes could provide an answer.
Jan 19th, 2009
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