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Researchers to develop more realistic models of drug and nanoparticle uptake
Researchers in Nottingham are to develop a more realistic model of drug uptake which could offer a reliable alternative to animal testing methods.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreTeaming up to expand healthcare applications for silicon nanotechnology
Researchers and physicians at Johns Hopkins University will collaborate with the nanoelectronics research center imec to advance silicon applications in healthcare, beginning with development of a device to enable a broad range of clinical tests. The corresponding tests will be performed outside the laboratory. The collaboration, announced today, will combine the Johns Hopkins clinical and research expertise with imec's nanoelectronics capabilities.
Posted: Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreCarbon nanotube chips go ballooning for climate science
A huge plastic balloon floated high in the skies over New Mexico on Sept. 29, 2013, carrying instruments to collect climate-related test data with the help of carbon nanotube chips made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Posted: Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreBirthing a new breed of materials
New research shows scientists' first steps into the unexplored territory of interfacial materials that could someday yield smaller, faster, more energy-efficient devices.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreResearch team 'gets the edge' on photon transport in silicon
Scientists have a new way to edge around a difficult problem in quantum physics, now that a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have proved their recent theory about how particles of light flow within a novel device they built.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreThe reins of Casimir: Engineered nanostructures could offer way to control quantum effect - once a mystery Is solved
You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night - so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreProject launched to industrialize 3D integrated capacitors with world-record density
PICS Project will develop innovative atomic layer deposition materials and tools for high-density 3D integrated capacitors.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreNanodiamonds: a cancer patient's best friend?
Real-time monitoring of cancer cell processes could soon be possible thanks to nanoscale diamonds used as biosensors.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreArt form, nanotechnology combine to advance batteries
A combination of nanotechnology and the traditional art of paper folding, known as origami, could be a key to a significant step toward improved battery technologies.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreNanofluids increase efficiency of CO2-removal process
Researchers increased the efficiency of adsorption and separation process of carbon dioxide in the designed system at laboratorial scale.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreNanopore opens new cellular doorway for drug transport
A living cell is built with barriers to keep things out - and researchers are constantly trying to find ways to smuggle molecules in. Professor Giovanni Maglia and his team have engineered a biological nanopore that acts as a selective revolving door through a cell's lipid membrane. The nanopore could potentially be used in gene therapy and targeted drug delivery.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreProgress in targeted gene delivery to tumor cells
Researchers produced peptide carriers to be used in targeted gene delivery to breast cancer cells.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreInexpensive nanomaterial boosts battery capacity
Next-generation lithium-ion batteries made with iron oxide nanoparticles could extend the driving distance of electric cars.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreNew device stores electricity on silicon chips
Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7. Cell phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges: These are just two of the possibilities raised by a novel supercapacitor design.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreProject aims to mass-produce 'nanopetals' for sensors, batteries
Researchers at Purdue University are developing a method to mass-produce a new type of nanomaterial for advanced sensors and batteries.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreMinuscule bumps improve an anti-reflective coating
An anti-reflective film that mimics a moth's eye is durable and highly effective, overcoming some of the main barriers to commercialization.
Posted: Oct 23rd, 2013
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