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An integrated logic circuit assembled on a single carbon nanotube

IBM today announced that its researchers have built the first complete electronic integrated circuit around a single carbon nanotube molecule, a new material that shows promise for providing enhanced performance over standard silicon semiconductors.

Mar 24th, 2006

Sugar on nanoparticles to combat bio-terrorism

A new technique for rapid, on-the-spot detection of dangerous biological substances could give a major boost to anti-terrorist operations worldwide.

Mar 23rd, 2006

The European Group on Ethics debated ethics of nanomedicine

The European Group on Ethics debated ethics of nanomedicine with about seventy experts and stakeholder representatives, March 21, 2006 in Brussels.

Mar 23rd, 2006

Novel nanoscale material has great potential for developments in microelectronics

A new study by chemists and engineers at the University of Toronto describes a nanoscale material they've created that could help satisfy societyâ??s never-ending hunger for smaller digital devices and cellphones, and could even lead to new methods for delivering medications via skin patches.

Mar 21st, 2006

First images of flowing nano ripples

Researchers have shed new light on the formation of nanoscale surface features, such as nano ripples. These features are important because they could be useful as templates for growing other nanostructures.

Mar 21st, 2006

Device monitors airborne nanoparticles

With a deep interest in the effects of air pollution on human health and global climate change, a University of Delaware researcher has developed a nanoaerosol mass spectrometer that can characterize microscopic airborne particles.

Mar 21st, 2006

A new report on Nanotechnology and Regulation released

A report by the Innovation Society in Switzerland summarizes the first results of the platform Nano-Regulation and provides recommendations for further steps towards a sustainable regulatory framework for nanotechnologies and nanosciences.

Mar 20th, 2006

Nanoliposome delivers anticancer drug to brain tumors

Using a nanoscale, drug-loaded liposome and a pressure-driven drug administration technique known as convection-enhanced delivery, researchers have developed an efficient method of getting anticancer drugs into the brain and keeping them there.

Mar 20th, 2006

Frequency comb spectroscopy proves to be powerful chemical analysis tool

Physicists at JILA have designed and demonstrated a highly sensitive new tool for real-time analysis of the quantity, structure, and dynamics of a variety of atoms and molecules simultaneously, even in miniscule gas samples.

Mar 18th, 2006

Tiny bubbles in nanofilms

A group of theoretical physicists at the University of Arkansas/ has demonstrated that under applied voltages, thin films composed of technologically important ferroelectric materials form nanobubbles, which have the potential to become a way to store lots of information in a tiny space.

Mar 17th, 2006

Artificial Muscles Powered by Highly Energetic Fuels

University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) nanotechnologists have made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater work per cycle and produce, at reduced strengths, larger contractions than natural muscles.