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Nanowerk publishes premier edition of nanoRISk newsletter
Nanowerk today launched nanoRISK, a bimonthly print newsletter and companion website, www.nanorisk.org.
June 8, 2006 Read more
Grocery Manufacturers Association to study nanotechnology in food packaging
The GMA is sponsoring the development of a series of case studies on the commercialization and regulation of engineered nanoscale materials for food and packaging materials.
June 7, 2006 Read more
Magnetic field acts as remote control to deliver nanomedicine
A nanoparticle-based drug delivery concept in which an applied magnetic field directs the accumulation in tumor cells of custom-designed, drug-filled nanocarriers has been demonstrated by University at Buffalo researchers.
June 7, 2006 Read more
Nanowire-paper offers strength, flexibility
University of Arkansas researchers have created assemblies of nanowires that show potential in applications such as armor, flame-retardant fabric, bacteria filters, oil cracking, controlled drug release, decomposition of pollutants and chemical warfare agents.
June 7, 2006 Read more
Creation of a new type of highly luminescent glass phosphors dispersing nanoparticles
Semiconductor nanoparticles without using harmful cadmium have been prepared by an aqueous solution method.
June 6, 2006 Read more
Growing nanostructures on micro cantilever provides new platform for materials discovery
Researchers have developed a new technique that could provide detailed information about the growth of carbon nanotubes and other nanoscale structures as they are being produced.
June 6, 2006 Read more
Programming nanoparticle release
Imagine an implantable device that could be programmed to release exact numbers of drug-laden nanoparticles at specific times over the course of weeks or months or even in response to incoming biochemical signals.
June 5, 2006 Read more
Nanoparticles monitor enzyme activity
A team of investigators describes its use of plasmon resonance spectroscopy to detect the release of individual gold nanoparticles that are cleaved from a surface through the activity of a target enzyme.
June 5, 2006 Read more
Nanoparticles open new avenues for photodynamic therapy
Two newly published papers suggest that nanoparticles may provide the means for targeting tumors with photosensitizers.
June 5, 2006 Read more
Analysis of the primary processes in the growth of quantum dot nano-crystals at solid-liquid interfaces
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Tohoku University have theoretically and experimentally analyzed the crystal nucleation process and the subsequent crystal growth process in the colloidal synthesis of CdSe quantum dots.
June 1, 2006 Read more
Promising new metamaterial could transform ultrasound imaging
Using the same principles that help create the complex tones of a guitar, researchers have developed a new material that holds promise for revolutionizing the field of ultrasound imaging.
May 31, 2006 Read more
Nanoparticles increase sensitivity of gene detection
Using oligonucleotides attached to gold nanoparticles, researchers have developed an assay capable of detecting as few as 3 million copies of any given gene using a simple optical detection method.
May 30, 2006 Read more
Biobarcode nanoparticles enable multiplexed DNA detection
Biobarcoded nanoparticles, which up until now have proven useful only for detecting mutations one at a time, can be used in a multiplexed system to detect and distinguish among four different DNA sequences simultaneously
May 30, 2006 Read more
Nanoparticles were not the cause of health problems in Germany
According to the findings of the Federal Institute for Risk Assesment (BfR) in Germany, nanoparticles are not the cause of the health disorders, in some cases severe, which occurred after using so-called sealing sprays.
May 26, 2006 Read more
Theoretical blueprint for invisibility cloak reported
Using a new design theory, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and Imperial College London have developed the blueprint for an invisibility cloak.
May 25, 2006 Read more
Growing glowing nanowires to light up the nanoworld
Nanowires made of semiconductor materials are being used to make prototype lasers and light-emitting diodes with emission apertures roughly 100 nm in diameter?about 50 times narrower than conventional counterparts.
May 25, 2006 Read more
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