Researchers have succeeded in developing measurement techniques that allow detection of aerosol nucleation starting from the formation of clusters from vapor molecules, and the growth of these clusters into aerosol particles.
Feb 22nd, 2013
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The body's immune system exists to identify and destroy foreign objects, whether they are bacteria, viruses, flecks of dirt or splinters. Unfortunately, nanoparticles designed to deliver drugs, and implanted devices like pacemakers or artificial joints, are just as foreign and subject to the same response. Now, rersearchers have figured out a way to provide a "passport" for such therapeutic devices, enabling them to get past the body's security system.
Feb 21st, 2013
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials.
Feb 21st, 2013
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Researchers have developed a synthesis to produce nanoparticles at room temperature in a polymer network. Their analysis has revealed the crystalline structure of the nanoparticles. This represents a major step forward in the usage of polymeric nanoreactors since, until recently, the nanoparticles had to be thoroughly heated to get them to crystallize.
Feb 21st, 2013
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When gluing things together, both surfaces usually need to be dry. Gluing wet surfaces or surfaces under water is a challenge. Korean scientists have now introduced a completely new concept. They were able to achieve reversible underwater adhesion by using supramolecular "velcro".
Feb 21st, 2013
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Due to years of great investment, Japan has gained a significant position in nanotechnologies. Besides a governmental investment, a huge private sector investment made Japan an attractive place for nanotechnology commercialization.
Feb 21st, 2013
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Researchers analyse interfaces between water and catalyst with computer simulations.
Feb 21st, 2013
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Photonen, die in ihrer Eigenschaften absolut identisch sind, sind ein Schlüssel für Quantennetzwerke und Quantencomputer. Einem internationalen Wissenschaftler-Team ist jetzt die Produktion solcher Photonen auf Knopfdruck gelungen.
Feb 21st, 2013
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Method focuses on direct, real-time vapor detection rather than collection of explosives particles; could change paradigm for explosives screening.
Feb 21st, 2013
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Digital cameras, medical scanners, and other imaging technologies have advanced considerably during the past decade. Continuing this pace of innovation, an Austrian research team has developed an entirely new way of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet.
Feb 20th, 2013
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Researchers have developed this biomimetic HDL nanostructure.
Feb 20th, 2013
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Hisataka Kobayashi and his colleagues at NCI's Center for Cancer Research employed a technique they call photo-immunotherapy, which uses an antibody linked to a light-sensitive compound or photosensitizer, to increase the leakiness of tumor-associated blood vessels.
Feb 20th, 2013
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Sangeeta Bhatia, a project leader at the MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, led the team that developed nanoparticles that can home to a tumor and interact with cancer proteins to produce thousands of biomarkers, which can then be easily detected in the patient's urine.
Feb 20th, 2013
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The unexpected diversity of metallic nanoclusters' inner structure has now been catalogued into families.
Feb 20th, 2013
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Researchers have developed a nanoparticle paste which can be injected into the defect and results in improved healing. The trick: the researchers have combined synthetic calcium phosphate with DNA.
Feb 20th, 2013
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Scientists have considered a specific DNA filament model and examined its behavior within a nano-channel. They observed that by varying the channel's width it is possible to drastically change the quantity and complexity of the knots formed by the DNA.
Feb 20th, 2013
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