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Gold nanoparticles emit intense heat, study finds

Nanoparticles of gold can act as tiny, precise and powerful heaters, which potentially could be used in biomedical applications, according to a new study.

Mar 30th, 2006

Magnetism shepherds microlenses to excavate nanocavities

A Duke University engineer is herding tiny lenses with magnetic ferrofluids, precisely aligning them so that they focus bursts of light to excavate patterns of cavities on surfaces.

Mar 30th, 2006

Engineers building erasible detectors, nanobrushes and DNA highrises

A Duke University engineering group is doing pioneering work at very diminutive dimensions. Their basic studies could lead to genetically engineered proteins that can form e.g. erasable chemical detectors.

Mar 30th, 2006

Quantum dot method rapidly identifies bacteria

A rapid method for detecting and identifying very small numbers of diverse bacteria, from anthrax to E. coli, has been developed by scientists from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Mar 30th, 2006

Using probes to control chemistry - molecule by molecule

Using probes originally designed to detect and image topographical features on surfaces, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to initiate and spatially localize chemical reactions on the submicron scale.

Mar 30th, 2006

Researchers develop new method for synthesis of nanomaterials

Using a simple, commercial microwave oven, chemists have developed a new method for the synthesis of nanomaterials that can control the dimensions and properties of rods and wires that are just one billionth of a meter in size.

Mar 30th, 2006

Study sets benchmark properties for most popular conducting plastic

Steadily increasing the length of a purified conducting polymer vastly improves its ability to conduct electricity.

Mar 29th, 2006

Researchers develop technology for creation of antiwear polymer films

A novel concept of molecular design to create additives and compounds which will reduce wear in liquid and vapor phase applications.

Mar 29th, 2006

Rapid nano molding

Researchers are using a new all-purpose nano synthesis method to design cancer-fighting nanoparticles.

Mar 29th, 2006

Cellular scale drug delivery from the inside out

Researchers at Ames Laboratory are exploring a nanoscale drug delivery systems.

Mar 29th, 2006

Carbon nanotube absorption measured in worms, cancer cells

Researchers have discovered how to measure the absorption of multi-walled carbon nanoparticles into worms and cancer cells.

Mar 28th, 2006

Cerium oxide nanotubes get noticed

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have created and investigated the properties of nanotubes made of cerium oxide.

Mar 28th, 2006

New blood vessels grow using engineered viral nanoparticles

Working with a virus that infects black-eyed peas, a team of investigators at The Scripps Research Institute has developed a nanoscale probe that provides a high-resolution map of blood vessels in a living animal.

Mar 27th, 2006

Computer model maps strengths, weaknesses of nanotubes

In theory, carbon nanotubes are 100 times stronger than steel, but in practice, scientists have struggled make nanotubes that live up to those predictions, in part, because there are still many unanswered questions about how nanotubes break and under what conditions.

Mar 27th, 2006

Modeling the chemical reactions of nanoparticles

For the past several years, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have been experimenting with new methods for preparing nanoparticles on metal supports, with the aim of creating model catalyst systems to better study the special reactivity of nano-sized catalyst particles.

Mar 27th, 2006

New process builds electronic function into optical fiber

Optical fiber helped bring us the Internet, and silicon/germanium devices brought us microelectronics. Now, a joint team from Penn State University and the University of Southampton has developed a new way to combine these technologies.

Mar 27th, 2006

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