Nanomaterials news
Scientists to work on non-volatile 'universal memory' devices in new clean room facility
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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The University of Southampton’s Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens next week (9 September), will make it possible to manufacture high-speed and non-volatile 'universal memory' devices for industry ...
Award for turning wool into gold
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A Victoria University (New Zealand) scientist has won a prestigious innovation award for turning pure New Zealand Merino wool into gold.
Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough ...
Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Carbon nanotubes hold many exciting possibilities, some of them in the realm of the human nervous system. Recent research has shown that carbon nanotubes may help regrow nerve tissue or ferry drugs used to ...
Self-destructing messages: Light-reactive coatings make metal nanoparticles into inks for self-erasing paper
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Those who like to watch spy movies like “Mission Impossible” are familiar with the self-destructing messages that inform the secret agents of the details of their mission and then dissolve in a puff of smoke. ...
Lower-cost solar cells to be printed like newspaper, painted on rooftops
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 24, 2009 |
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Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle "inks" that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.
Bio-enabled, surface-mediated approach produces nanoparticle composites
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2009 |
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Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical ...
A safe approach to nanotechnology: Boiling up zinc oxide nanorods without toxic solvents
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 19, 2009 |
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A non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to make tiny nanorods of zinc oxide has been developed for the first time by researchers in Saudi Arabia. The approach, described in the current issue of the International Journal of ...
Harnessing carbon nanomaterials for drug delivery systems, oxygen sensors
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Two nanoscale devices recently reported by University of Pittsburgh researchers in two separate journals harness the potential of carbon nanomaterials to enhance technologies for drug or imaging agent delivery ...
New material for nanoscale computer chips
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 17, 2009 |
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Nanochemists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nano-Science Center, Department of Chemistry at University of Copenhagen have developed nanoscale electric contacts out of organic and inorganic nanowires. ...
Capping A Two-Faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drew fittingly from Roman mythology when they named a unique class of miniscule particles after the god Janus, who is usually depicted as having two faces looking in opposite directions.
Multi-laboratory study sizes up nanoparticle sizing
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2009 |
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As a result of a major inter-laboratory study, the standards body ASTM International has been able to update its guidelines for a commonly used technique for measuring the size of nanoparticles in solutions. The study, which ...
'Nanospears' could lead to better solar cells, lasers, lighting
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Growing - and precisely aligning - microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have ...
New light-emitting biomaterial could improve tumor imaging, study shows
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 10, 2009 |
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A new material developed at the University of Virginia - an oxygen nanosensor that couples a light-emitting dye with a biopolymer - simplifies the imaging of oxygen-deficient regions of tumors. Such tumors are associated ...
Researchers make carbon nanotubes without metal catalyst
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Carbon nanotubes — tiny, rolled-up tubes of graphite — promise to add speed to electronic circuits and strength to materials like carbon composites, used in airplanes and racecars. A major problem, however, ...
