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First images of flowing nano ripples

Researchers have shed new light on the formation of nanoscale surface features, such as nano ripples. These features are important because they could be useful as templates for growing other nanostructures.

March 21, 2006 Read more

Device monitors airborne nanoparticles

With a deep interest in the effects of air pollution on human health and global climate change, a University of Delaware researcher has developed a nanoaerosol mass spectrometer that can characterize microscopic airborne particles.

March 21, 2006 Read more

A new report on Nanotechnology and Regulation released

A report by the Innovation Society in Switzerland summarizes the first results of the platform Nano-Regulation and provides recommendations for further steps towards a sustainable regulatory framework for nanotechnologies and nanosciences.

March 20, 2006 Read more

Nanoliposome delivers anticancer drug to brain tumors

Using a nanoscale, drug-loaded liposome and a pressure-driven drug administration technique known as convection-enhanced delivery, researchers have developed an efficient method of getting anticancer drugs into the brain and keeping them there.

March 20, 2006 Read more

Frequency comb spectroscopy proves to be powerful chemical analysis tool

Physicists at JILA have designed and demonstrated a highly sensitive new tool for real-time analysis of the quantity, structure, and dynamics of a variety of atoms and molecules simultaneously, even in miniscule gas samples.

March 18, 2006 Read more

Tiny bubbles in nanofilms

A group of theoretical physicists at the University of Arkansas/ has demonstrated that under applied voltages, thin films composed of technologically important ferroelectric materials form nanobubbles, which have the potential to become a way to store lots of information in a tiny space.

March 17, 2006 Read more

Artificial Muscles Powered by Highly Energetic Fuels

University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) nanotechnologists have made alcohol- and hydrogen-powered artificial muscles that are 100 times stronger than natural muscles, able to do 100 times greater work per cycle and produce, at reduced strengths, larger contractions than natural muscles.

March 16, 2006 Read more

EU supports research towards the construction of nanomotors

Within an initiative aimed at supporting visionary research projects, the European Union has set aside research funds for the development of biological nanomotors.

March 16, 2006 Read more

Bone cells grown on carbon nanotubes

New findings show for the first time, that bone cells can grow and proliferate on a scaffold of carbon nanotubes.

March 15, 2006 Read more

Nanoparticles facilitate chemical separations

Nanoscale magnetic particles allow separations in one-pot multi-step chemical reactions.

March 15, 2006 Read more

Electrons in limbo seen for first time

Two recent papers by Pitt physicist offer a deeper understanding of how electrons behave on surfaces, with applications in electronics and energy.

March 15, 2006 Read more

Nanoparticle in rice shape could improve chemical sensing, biological imaging could improve chemical sensing, biological

Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) made rice-shaped particles of gold and iron oxide.

March 14, 2006 Read more

Researchers develop foundation for circuitry and devices based on graphite

Electronics based on carbon

March 14, 2006 Read more

Gold nanorods may make safer cancer treatment

Nanorods Show Benefits Over Nanospheres in Noninvasive Cancer Treatment.

March 14, 2006 Read more

Brain-healing nanotechnology

A ground-breaking treatment could restore lost abilities to stroke victims and others.

March 14, 2006 Read more

Shrinking Magnetic Storage Media Down to the Nanoscale

Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers fabricated patterned magnetic films that could serve as building blocks for new nanoscale magneto-electronic devices and data storage media.

March 13, 2006 Read more