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Marcy NanoCenter called best North American site for nanoelectronics manufacturing

A $4 million investment by New York State has further prepared Marcy NanoCenter for immediate development by the nanoelectonics industry.

July 19, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology in food and farming is inadequately regulated

Nanotechnology in food and farming is inadequately regulated, say Australian researchers.

July 18, 2007 Read more

Inexpensive, easy process to produce carbon nanotube solar panels

Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations.

July 18, 2007 Read more

Nature's nanotechnology secrets yield new adhesive material

Scientists report they have merged two of nature's most elegant strategies for wet and dry adhesion to produce a synthetic material that one day could lead to more durable and longer-lasting bandages, patches, and surgical materials.

July 18, 2007 Read more

Nanoparticles send peptides round the twist

Nanoparticles with flexible side chains cause peptides to adopt a helical form, making them promising anticancer agents.

July 18, 2007 Read more

Efficient electrical spin injection into silicon

Scientists have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a large electron spin polarization in the silicon.

July 17, 2007 Read more

Natural 'workbench' for nanoscale construction

Engineers have taken a step toward simplifying the creation of nanostructures by identifying the first inorganic material to phase separate with near-perfect order at the nanometer scale. The finding provides an atomically tuneable nanocomposite 'workbench' that is cheap and easy to produce and provides a super-lattice foundation potentially suitable for building nanostructures.

July 17, 2007 Read more

New report describes nanotechnologies for environmental remediation

This report describes the outcomes from the workshop on "Nanotechnologies for Environmental Remediation."

July 16, 2007 Read more

Geoethical nanotechnology workshop to explore downloading human minds

The Workshop, accessible to the general public as a webinar, will explore downloading minds into bio-nano bodies and similar technologies thought to be essential for interstellar colonization. Geoethical nanotechnology is atom-by-atom assembly techniques that are subject to a consensual review, approval and audit process.

July 16, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology propellers pump with proper chemistry

Chemists have created a theoretical blueprint for assembling a nanoscale propeller with molecule-sized blades.

July 16, 2007 Read more

Microscopic polystyrene balls - now jet-propelled

Physicists have created an armada of self-propelled polystyrene balls about as wide as a strand of your hair. Their efforts are moving toward self-propelled nanoswimmers that could navigate narrow channels such as the human circulatory system.

July 16, 2007 Read more

Miraculous mosquito legs

The secret to mosquito water walking appears to be feathery scales a few microns across that in turn are covered with nanoscopic ribbing, forming what the physicists have dubbed (in an apparent fit of excessive prefixing) a micronanostructure.

July 16, 2007 Read more

Nanoparticles that cancer cells can't resist

Turning cancer cells into mini magnets by using nanoparticles could make biopsies so sensitive and efficient that there will be no need to repeat these invasive tests.

July 13, 2007 Read more

Wake up and smell the aromatheraphy nanotechnology pencil

Wake up and smell the pencil lead, says Japanese stationery and writing instrument manufacturer Pentel, who has combined the power of nanotechnology with the knowledge of expert aromatherapists to develop a new type of fragrant pencil lead.

July 13, 2007 Read more

Chameleon for optoelectronics

Optical semiconductors made of magnetic particles change their color depending on magnetic field strength.

July 13, 2007 Read more

On a wire or in a fiber, a wave is a wave

In an experiment modeled on the classic "Young's double slit experiment" researchers have powerfully reinforced the understanding that surface plasmon polaritons move as waves and follow analogous rules.

July 13, 2007 Read more