Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have uncovered new properties of imidazolium salts (IMSs), which suggest that they could play a vital role in disease prevention and treatment.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreResearchers have shed new light on how the molecular motors in cells move organelles within cells, and the results may eventually lead to new approaches to fighting pathogens and neurological diseases.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreThe Nanoethics Group today announced publishing a symposium of papers focusing on ethical and societal problems arising from human enhancement applications of emerging technologies, especially nanotechnology.
Dec 15th, 2008
Read moreMIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Dec 14th, 2008
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Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material.
Dec 14th, 2008
Read moreToday, during the 2nd Bangalore Nano 2008 event, Shri. M. Hamid Ansari, H.E. Vice President of India, presented the 2nd Bangalore Nano National Award to Prof. Dipankar Chakravorty, recognizing his awe-inspiring achievements in the field of Nanotechnology.
Dec 13th, 2008
Read moreThe government of Karnataka, on the occasion of the 2nd Bangalore Nano conference, has declared Bangalore as the 'Nanocity of India'.
Dec 13th, 2008
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Australian researchers have reported making grams of graphene using nothing more complicated than sodium and ethanol. The process, according to team leader John Stride at the University of New South Wales, should help accelerate the progress of applications for a much-hyped material that's proved hard to manufacture cheaply.
Dec 13th, 2008
Read moreInformex today announced that it will invite young chemists to attend the upcoming InformexUSA exhibition in San Francisco free of charge. The invitation opens the door for chemists and chemical engineers 25 and under to learn more about the chemical technologies manufacturers will require in the years ahead to commercialize exciting new concepts in areas like nanotechnology, pharmaceutical fine chemicals, and green chemistry.
Dec 12th, 2008
Read moreAsylum Research and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have released a detailed 24-page monograph explaining the theory, functionality and applications of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy (PFM). Electromechanical coupling is one of the fundamental natural mechanisms underlying the function of many inorganic and macromolecular materials and is ubiquitous in biological systems.
Dec 12th, 2008
Read moreEurope's photovoltaic industry is growing rapidly and is now worth EUR 14 billion a year, according to the 2008 Status Report on Photovoltaics (solar energy technologies) released by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre.
Dec 12th, 2008
Read moreFive-year grants totalling 20m pounds will be given to Bath, Imperial, London School of Economics, Edinburgh, Exeter, Heriot-Watt, Lancaster, Manchester and Strathclyde Universities as a result of the EPSRC 2008 Science and Innovation Awards.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. offers life scientists the opportunity to own a unique and highly visual representation of their own DNA profile immortalized on canvas.
Dec 12th, 2008
Read moreA novel x-ray technique allowing the observation of molecular motion on a time scale never reached before has been developed by a team of researchers from EPFL and the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Switzerland.
Dec 12th, 2008
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Winzige Antennen, die Licht sammeln und in Strom umwandeln, wollen Chemiker und Physiker der Uni Wuerzburg herstellen.
Dec 12th, 2008
Read moreThe National Nanotechnology Centre (Nanotec) in Thailand has revealed plans to make Thailand the focus of the emerging nanotechnology industry in the Asean region.
Dec 12th, 2008
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