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Pinning down superconductivity to a single layer

Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss.

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Nanotechnology anti-freeze coating

Inspired by water-resistant lotus leaves, the Pitt-developed solution repels freezing rain and provides the first evidence of anti-icing ability in superhydrophobic coatings.

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Nanostructured integrated circuit detects type and severity of cancer

A team of investigators from the University of Toronto have used nanomaterials to develop an inexpensive microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of a patient's cancer so that the disease can be detected earlier for more effective treatment.

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Two-in-one nanotechnology punch knocks out drug resistant cancer cells

Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to relapse of disease. One approach showing promise in overcoming multidrug resistance in tumors is to combine two different anticancer agents in one nanoscale construct, providing a one-two punch that can prove lethal to such resistant cells.

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Nanoparticles detect and purge metastases in lymph nodes

Researchers at the Winthrop Rockefeller Cancer Institute and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences have developed another fiber optic technique that can detect lymph node metastases and destroy them on the spot, an action that could prevent the further spread of breast cancer, melanoma, or gastrointestinal cancer, all of which spread through the lymphatic system.

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Magnetism turns drug release on and off

A research team led by Daniel Kohane of Children's Hospital Boston has devised a drug delivery solution that combines magnetism with nanotechnology.

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Gold nanoparticles delivery platinum warheads to tumors

Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have developed a nanoparticulate formulation of cisplatin that may be able to eliminate or reduce platinum-associated toxicity while boosting cisplatin's tumor-killing activity.

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Argonne scientists awarded Bonner Prize in nuclear physics

Steven Pieper and Robert Wiringa, senior scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, have won the 2010 Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics.

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Australia's premier science award goes to nanoscientist

Dr Amanda Barnard was awarded the 2009 Malcolm McIntosh Prize for Physical Scientist of the Year for major contributions to the field of nanoscience.

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2009 Fine Particle Forum award to Markku Rajala

Markku Rajala has been nominated as the awardee of the Fine Particle Forum Award 2009. For long, Rajala has carried a central role in the networking of the Finnish fine particle field by increasing the interaction both between academia and industry and within industry stakeholders, in an unprejudiced, interdisciplinary way.

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LANL Roadrunner simulates nanoscale material failure

First-ever simulation of a stretching silver nanowire over a period of a millisecond.

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Groundbreaking scheduled for Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

Officials from University of North Carolina (UNC) Greensboro and N.C. A+T State University will hold a groundbreaking for the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, at the South Campus of Gateway University Research Park, 2901 E. Lee Street, Greensboro.

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Carbon nanotubes fast forward seed germination

A collaborative team of biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.

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Researchers to build brain-like microcircuitry to power a new generation of intelligent machines

HRL Laboratories, LLC, announced today it will continue groundbreaking work developing electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) SyNAPSE program, or Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics.

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Next-generation carbon nanotube microcapsules deliver 'chemicals on demand'

Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen. The new microcapsules burst when exposed to light, releasing their contents in ways that could have wide-ranging commercial uses from home and personal care to medicine.

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Silver nanoparticle release from treated garments

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market.

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