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Dec 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available ...

Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures

Dec 17, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 0

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes.

Behavior modification could ease concerns about nanoparticles

Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles ...

Growing Europe's nanowires

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed state-of-the-art nanowire 'growing' technology, opening the way for faster, smaller microchips and creating a promising new avenue of research and industrial ...

Watching Proteins Direct Crystal Growth One Step at a Time (w/ Video)

Dec 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry imaged the growth of protein-studded mineral surfaces with unprecedented resolution and provided a glimpse into how living systems engineer key ...

Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a nanolithographic technique that can produce high-resolution patterns of at least three different chemicals on a single chip at writing speeds of ...

Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior

Dec 15, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural ...

Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects

Dec 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny nanoprobes have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cells - mitigating the damage to nearby healthy cells - and Purdue University research has shown that the nanoprobes ...

Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI

Dec 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

Researchers at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have created a single nanoparticle that can be tracked in real time with MRI as it homes in on cancer cells, tags them with a fluorescent ...

New curriculum mixes nanotechnology and skiing (w/ Video)

Dec 14, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Nanotechnology seems a daunting subject, but for mechanical engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno, it has taken on a real world approach - in Ski Building 101.

Scientists use nanosensors for first time to measure cancer biomarkers in blood

Dec 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (13) | 3

A team led by Yale University researchers has used nanosensors to measure cancer biomarkers in whole blood for the first time. Their findings, which appear December 13 in the advanced online publication of ...

Argonne scientists to control attractive force for nanoelectromechanical systems

Dec 10, 2009 | 3 / 5 (2) | 1

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory are developing a way to control the Casimir force, a quantum mechanical force, which attracts objects when they are only hundred nanometers apart.

Lightweight composites to get trimmer and smarter

Dec 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO researchers have set themselves the goal of producing a new generation of super-strong, lightweight polymer composite materials for use in aircraft, road vehicles, trains and ferries.

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