The porous, sieve-like minerals known as zeolites have been used for decades in purifiers, filters and other devices. Yet creating and refining a new type of zeolite is still a matter of sophisticated trial and error: no one has been able to figure out exactly how the crystals form, even in the laboratory.
Apr 17th, 2006
Read moreThis new technique is useful for separating, concentrating and analyzing proteins quickly with high sensitivity and selectivity.
Apr 17th, 2006
Read moreResearchers at the University of Toronto have created a laser that could help save the $200-billion dollar computer chip industry from a looming crisis dubbed the interconnect bottleneck.
Apr 17th, 2006
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Researchers have demonstrated that the detailed shape of the electric field inside a short light pulse can be used to control the motion of electrons involved in chemical bonding and to change the outcome of a simple chemical reaction.
Apr 13th, 2006
Read moreResearchers have developed a new technique for powering nanometer-scale devices without the need for bulky energy sources such as batteries.
Apr 13th, 2006
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Researchers have found a way to use the electric-field process to make nanofibers in a direct, continuous and controllable manner. The new technique, known as near-field electrospinning, offers the possibility of producing out of nanofibers new, specialized materials with organized patterns that can be used for such applications as wound dressings, filtrations and bio-scaffolds.
Apr 13th, 2006
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In follow-on work to its groundbreaking invention of the first single-molecule car, chemists at Rice University have produced the first motorized version of their tiny nanocar.
Apr 13th, 2006
Read moreTired of fluorescent tubes? Imagine your ceiling - or any surface - as a giant light panel, thanks to research from University of Southern California (USC) and Princeton University.
Apr 12th, 2006
Read morePhysicists at Penn State University have performed the first laboratory experiment with a system of many colliding particles whose motion never becomes chaotic.
Apr 12th, 2006
Read moreNew research consortium in Germany examines possible risks with the goal of supporting small and medium-sized companies.
Apr 12th, 2006
Read moreTiny materials may bring about large-scale advances in a future hydrogen economy, Institute Professor Mildred S. Dresselhaus told audiences Wednesday, April 5, at MIT and at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Apr 11th, 2006
Read moreAustralian researchers started working on replacing syringes with nanopatches.
Apr 11th, 2006
Read moreA new environmental chamber constructed by Argonne National Laboratory allows researchers to watch materials as they grow step-by-step while interacting in elevated-temperature, reactive-gas environments.
Apr 11th, 2006
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Ultra-small particles loaded with medicine ? and aimed with the precision of a rifle ? are offering a promising new way to strike at cancer.
Apr 10th, 2006
Read moreResearch studies, based at the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrate that biodegradable nano-particles containing two potent cancer-fighting drugs are effective in killing human breast tumors.
Apr 10th, 2006
Read moreResearchers have developed a technique that allows them to attach molecules to just a few specific nanotubes within an array of thousands of nanotubes. This new method could speed the development of nanosensor arrays capable of detecting multiple cancer markers in human tissue or blood samples.
Apr 10th, 2006
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