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German hydrogen infrastructure in place by 2015

A comprehensive nationwide infrastructure for hydrogen refueling will be in place in Germany by 2015. This is the declaration of the landmark agreement signed on September 10.

September 24, 2009 Read more

Alberta conference reveals growing enthusiasm for nanotechnology in forest products community

Held in Edmonton, AB, Canada, and co-sponsored by TAPPI and the Alberta Ingenuity Fund, the conference revealed developments for revolutionizing paper and wood products, as well as capturing sustainability-focused markets with bionanocomposites and capitalizing on wood-derived nanocrystalline cellulose and nanofibrillar cellulose.

September 24, 2009 Read more

Surface nanopatterns can produce big differences in how materials and cells behave

New findings show that tiny textures on a surface can produce big differences in how some materials, and even living cells, behave.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Lab-on-a-chip performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

Researchers have developed technology to perform more than a thousand chemical reactions at once on a stamp-size, PC-controlled microchip, which could accelerate the identification of potential drug candidates for treating diseases such as cancer.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Twinkling nanostars improve optical imaging of tumors

Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Nanodiamonds advance anticancer gene therapy

Two teams of researchers have developed versatile nanotechnology-enabled platforms that could get therapeutic genes safely and efficiently into cancer cells.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Golden nanotubes detect tumor cells, map sentinel lymph nodes

Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon nanotubes that is capable of molecular mapping of lymphatic endothelial cells and detecting cancer metastasis in sentinel lymph nodes.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles catalyze brain tumor death

Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to antibodies.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Magnetic nanoworms and nanocrystals deliver siRNA to tumors

Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in development.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit

The researchers showed that they could detect the quantum correlations in the results of measurements of entangled quantum bits, using a superconducting electrical circuit.

September 23, 2009 Read more

University of Waterloo's Quantum Device Theory group shares in U.S. government grant

The Quantum Device Theory group led by Institute for Quantum Computing faculty member Dr. Frank Wilhelm will be sharing in a multi-institution grant to fund research into advanced materials for superconducting qubits.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Rice awarded $5M for light-based crystal simulator

Physicists trap atoms with light to probe high-temp superconductivity.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Johns Hopkins nanobiotechnology summer internship helps undergrads learn research ropes

Summertime flies by when it is spent hard at work in a laboratory; but the 12 student researchers selected for Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) still had plenty of fun.

September 23, 2009 Read more

Paper battery may power electronics in clothing and packaging material

Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That's because the wrapping paper lights up with words like Happy Birthday or Happy Holidays, thanks to a built in battery - an amazing battery made out of paper.

September 23, 2009 Read more

La-Ola im Nanomagneten

Hamburger Wissenschaftler bieten neuen Einblick in das Schaltverhalten kleinster Magnete.

September 23, 2009 Read more

New nanotechnology material kills antibiotic-resitant bacteria

Doctors are not well armed in the fight against antibiotic-resitant bacteria. It is very difficult or, in the worst case, impossible to fight such infections. A team of researchers in Germany has now developed a unique nanomaterial that kills antibiotic-resitant bacteria.

September 23, 2009 Read more