Aiming at developing and exploiting advanced nanostructure generation techniques, the NANOCOLD project focused on microfabrication of mechanical masks for massive parallel nanolithography.
Jun 21st, 2006
Read moreThe University of Limerick, a participant in the IST-funded MINT project, investigated the use of folded RNA as a templating agent in the construction of nanostructures.
Jun 21st, 2006
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Researchers have developed a technique to get a closer-than-ever look at individual atoms within crystal molecules -- allowing them, for the first time, to see the polarity, or physical alignment, of those constituent atoms and to get a view of the smaller atoms.
Jun 20th, 2006
Read moreA team of investigators in Spain has used two different sugars to create a nanoparticle that can entrap water-soluble molecules such as proteins.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreInvestigators in France have developed a versatile new method for creating nanoparticles that are both magnetic and fluorescent.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreUsing a hybrid liposome-nanocapsule, researchers in France have developed a lipid nanocapsule that appears to overcome the solubility problem.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreAn international team of investigators has developed a method that uses clusters of gold nanoparticles to create vapor microbubbles that can kill targeted cells.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreResearchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an optically switchable material that alters its surface characteristics when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreThe researchers are after a new, high-tech catalyst that takes some of the energy, labor and toxic chemicals out of biodiesel production.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreA research team from the Research Center for Advanced Carbon Materials of the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan has developed a novel synthesis method for SWNTs (single-walled carbon nanotubes) to be the core material for nanotechnologies.
Jun 15th, 2006
Read moreIn the BIOKER project, funded under the European Commission GROWTH programme, methods and materials were investigated with the aim to increase the life span of ceramic-ceramic knee and hip orthopaedic implants.
Jun 14th, 2006
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Chemists direct silicon oxide into a selected hierarchical structure - a mechanism that until now had only been found in nature
Jun 14th, 2006
Read moreUsing nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which allowed detection of protein folding events at the level of single atoms, researchers produced the equivalent of a sequence of snapshots of the protein folding process.
Jun 14th, 2006
Read moreResearchers at New York University have made chemical modifications to nanometer sized virus particles-a process that has the potential to improve magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques.
Jun 14th, 2006
Read moreResearchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed what they call a Smart Petri Dish that could be used to rapidly screen new drugs for toxic interactions or identify cells in the early stages of cancer circulating through blood.
Jun 13th, 2006
Read moreA researcher at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft, has succeeded in largely controlling the transportation of electrons in semiconductor nanowires.
Jun 13th, 2006
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