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Scientists discover novel materials approach to fighting cancer (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

18 hours ago | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center are shaking up the world of materials science and cancer research on the cover of the ...

Composite nanomaterials show promise for solar hydrogen generation

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

23 hours ago | 4 / 5 (6) | 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel strategy for engineering semiconductor materials can boost the performance of water-splitting solar cells for hydrogen production, according to a new study by researchers at the University ...

IBM Scientists Demonstrate World's Fastest Graphene Transistor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Feb 05, 2010 | 4.9 / 5 (38) | 22 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device ...

Big book explores a small world: Professor debuts first complete guide to nanoscience

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Feb 04, 2010 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

Stuart Lindsay, Arizona State University Regents' professor and director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, has just released the first comprehensive guide to a tiny world ...

Carbon Based Chips May One Day Replace Silicon Transistors

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Feb 03, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (17) | 3 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM researchers are hopeful that, over the next decade, silicon-based transistors will be replaced by carbon-based transistors. IBM has already laid out the ground work for carbon-based transistors.

Nano imagining takes turn for the better

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 03, 2010 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stephan Link wants to understand how nanomaterials align, and his lab's latest work is a step in the right direction.

Here's looking at dew: spiders snare water from the air

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Feb 03, 2010 | 5 / 5 (9) | 2

Fog-catching nets which provide precious water in rain-starved parts of the world may be poised for a high-tech upgrade thanks to the spider.

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Feb 02, 2010 | 4.7 / 5 (226) | 90 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. ...

High, not flat: nanowires for a new chip architecture

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Feb 02, 2010 | 5 / 5 (8) | 2 |

Nowadays, a myriad of silicon transistors are responsible to pass on the information on a microchip. The transistors are arranged in a planar array, i.e. lying flat next to each other, and have shrunk down ...

Sunny Record: Breakthrough for Hybrid Solar Cells

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Feb 02, 2010 | 3.8 / 5 (11) | 3 |

German scientists at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) have succeeded in developing a method for treating the surface of nanoparticles which ...

Research may lead to new ways to transport and manipulate molecules

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 02, 2010 | 4 / 5 (3) | 0 |

A group of Marshall University researchers and their colleagues in Japan are conducting research that may lead to new ways to move or position single molecules -- a necessary step if man someday hopes to build ...

CT with Nanotubes for People and Baggage Scans

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Feb 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Researchers from Siemens are investigating the use of small, fast X-ray sources based on nanotubes.

Nano for the senses

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Feb 02, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

Pin-sharp projections, light that's whiter than white, varnishes that make sounds if the temperature changes: at nano tech 2010 in Tokyo, Fraunhofer researchers present nanotechnology that is a veritable feast for the senses.

Engineers develop cancer-targeting nanoprobe sensors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2010 | 5 / 5 (12) | 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at UC Berkeley have created smart nanoprobes that may one day be used in the battle against cancer to selectively seek out and destroy tumor cells, as well as report back on the ...

Growing cartilage -- no easy task

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2010 | 5 / 5 (9) | 1 |

Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors. Minimally invasive, the therapy activates ...

Magnetic nanoparticles show promise for combating human cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2010 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

Scientists at Georgia Tech and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have further developed a potential new treatment against cancer that uses magnetic nanoparticles to attach to cancer cells, removing them from the ...

Engineers explore environmental concerns of nanotechnology

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

As researchers around the world hasten to employ nanotechnology to improve production methods for applications that range from manufacturing materials to creating new pharmaceutical drugs, a separate but equally ...

Detecting cancer early

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Feb 01, 2010 | not rated yet | 0

A new testing method is being developed to detect cancer soon after the tumor has formed. It will identify characteristic substances in the blood which accompany a certain type of tumor. The first steps in ...