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First nanoscale mass spectrometer created
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Using devices millionths of a meter in size, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a technique to determine the mass of a single molecule, in real time.
New windows opened on cell-to-cell interactions (w/ Video)
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 22, 2009 |
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Applying biological molecules from cell membranes to the surfaces of artificial materials is opening peepholes on the very basics of cell-to-cell interaction.
More than meets the eye: New blue light nanocrystals
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Berkeley Lab researchers have produced non-toxic magnesium oxide nanocrystals that efficiently emit blue light and could also play a role in long-term storage of carbon dioxide, a potential means of tempering ...
Controlling the electronic surface properties of a material
Jul 17, 2009 |
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A recent breakthrough by researchers at the Swiss Nanoscience Institute sees for the first time the creation of thin films with controllable electronic properties. This discovery could have a large impact ...
World's Most Precise Microscope Headed For UVic
Jul 16, 2009 |
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A new microscope that views the subatomic universe -- the first of its kind in the world -- is being built for the University of Victoria, Canada, in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies.
Researchers discover new fluorescent silicon nanoparticles
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ...
New method to detect quantum mechanical effects in ordinary objects
Jun 22, 2009 |
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At the quantum level, the atoms that make up matter and the photons that make up light behave in a number of seemingly bizarre ways. Particles can exist in "superposition," in more than one state at the same ...
Research explores interactions between nanomaterials, biological systems
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent explosion in the development of nanomaterials with enhanced performance characteristics for use in commercial and medical applications has increased the likelihood of people coming into direct ...
Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
Jun 17, 2009 |
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University of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to bring its naturally occurring mechanical ...
Nanocrystals reveal activity within cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created bright, stable and bio-friendly nanocrystals that act as individual investigators of activity within ...
Nanoparticles could someday lead to end of chemotherapy
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 16, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.
Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes
May 14, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for ...
Big prize for 'small science' physicist
May 07, 2009 |
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CSIRO scientist, Dr Amanda Barnard, has been awarded the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2009 Young Scientist Prize in Computational Physics.
More than one nanostring to their bow: Scientists moving closer to 'artificial noses'
Apr 23, 2009 |
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These days, chemical analysts are expected to track down even single molecules. To do this highly sensitive detective work, nano researchers have developed minute strings that resonate in characteristic fashion. If a molecule ...
UH initiative will use 'Harry Potter' to conjure love for science
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Hoping that science will cast a spell on local middle and high school students, a University of Houston team is starting a program that will harness the magical draw of the Harry Potter series to make technical subjects resonate ...
