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Tiny technology may yield major finds -- and possible perils
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Imagine a particle so small it would take a million of them to stretch across the period at the end of this sentence. Imagine such particles could help catch cancer cells floating in your bloodstream before they could metastasize ...
New Magnet Design Could Shed Light On Nanoscience
Oct 31, 2007 |
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Engineers at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have successfully tested a groundbreaking new magnet design that could literally shed new light on nanoscience and semiconductor ...
Beaming new light on life: From beetles to aircraft, nanoparticles aid microscope views
Feb 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah physicists and chemists developed a new method that uses a mirror of tiny silver "nanoparticles" so microscopes can reveal the internal structure of nearly opaque biological ...
Nanoscience May Produce 'Perfect' Materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 25, 2006 |
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Nanoscience may provide a way to engineer materials that are virtually defect-free – perfect, that is.
Scientists discover new method of observing interactions in nanoscale systems
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Scientists have used new optical technologies to observe interactions in nanoscale systems that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle usually would prohibit, according to a study published Jan. 17 in the journal Nature.
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 ...
Chemists perfect fast way to synthesize libraries of gold nanoparticles
Sep 05, 2005 |
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Not all libraries contain books. In chemistry, the word library is used to refer to a collection of molecules. University of Oregon chemist Jim Hutchison's new way of rapidly generating libraries of tiny particles with great ...
Columbia Researchers Bring Nanotech's Promise a Step Closer to Reality
Aug 22, 2005 |
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Scientists at Columbia University's Nanoscience Center have solved a fundamental, and to date, highly elusive challenge in the fast-developing world of nanotech-molecular electronic devices.
Nanotechnology: What's that?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 04, 2007 |
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Nanoscience and nanotechnology are two of the hottest fields in research, investment, and manufacturing. Some hail nanotechnology as enabling "The Next Industrial Revolution."
Nanoparticles trigger cell death?
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Nanoparticles that are one milliard of a metre in size are widely used, for example, in cosmetics and food packaging materials. There are also significant amounts of nanoparticles in exhaust emissions. However, very little ...
Biological motors sort molecules one by one on a chip
May 11, 2006 |
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Researchers from Delft University of Technology’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience have discovered how to use the motors of biological cells in extremely small channels on a chip. Based on this, they built a ...
Carbon nanotube polymer nanocomposites for field emission cathodes
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 09, 2009 |
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A collaboration between researchers at the University of Surrey’s Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) and the School of Physics at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that you can produce a composite of carbon nanotubes ...
'Molecular Legos' Net Professor, Student Nanotech Prize
Nov 04, 2005 |
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A University of Pittsburgh researcher and his student have been awarded prestigious prizes from the Foresight Nanotech Institute for their work in developing a "molecular Lego® set" that will enable, for the first time, the ...
Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
Mar 03, 2009 |
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As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Researchers shine light on atomic transistor
Nov 22, 2006 |
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Researchers from TU Delft and the FOM Foundation (Netherlands) have successfully measured transport through a single atom in a transistor. This research offers new insights into the behaviour of so-called dopant ...
