At Stanford, nanotubes + ink + paper = equal instant battery (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (27) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford scientists are harnessing nanotechnology to quickly produce ultra-lightweight, bendable batteries and supercapacitors in the form of everyday paper.

Researchers can precisely manipulate polarization in nanostructures

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control ...

Researchers Develop Material That Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 20, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (18) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store the equivalent of 20 high-definition DVDs or 250 million pages of text, far ...

Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Ideas

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Oct 05, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile ...

Death by light: Nanoparticles as agents for the photodynamic killing of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Oct 05, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The increasing antibiotic resistance of bacteria is a serious problem of our time. Hospital germs in particular have developed strains against which practically every current antibiotic is ineffective. In ...

Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Catalyze Brain Tumor Death

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Sep 24, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center’s Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using ...

A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 23, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between ...

Scientists Build Nanostructures out of Single DNA Strands

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Sep 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- With its unique double-helical structure, DNA has the ability to be used as a programmable building material to construct designer nanoscale architectures. Complex DNA architectures could ...

New graphene-based nanomaterial with magnetic properties designed

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Sep 02, 2009 | 3.1 / 5 (18) | 4

An international team of researchers has designed a new graphite-based, magnetic nano-material that acts as a semiconductor and could help material scientists create the next generation of electronic devices ...

Scientists develop targeted cancer treatment using nanomaterials

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Aug 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic ...

Nanotech particles affect brain development in mice

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jul 28, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 0

Maternal exposure to nanoparticles of titanium dioxide (TiO2) affects the expression of genes related to the central nervous system in developing mice. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Particle an ...

Teeny-tiny X-ray vision

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina ...

Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jul 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Alberta biological sciences professor Gregg Goss is on the front line of a new effort to monitor the effects of nanomaterials on the environment.

Remote-control closed system invented for inserting radio-active atoms inside fullerenes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

Jul 07, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

Virginia Tech chemistry Professor Harry C. Dorn, Emory and Henry College chemistry Professor James Duchamp, and Panos Fatouros, professor and chair of the Division of Radiation Physics and Biology at the Virginia ...

Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

Jun 30, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Carbon nanotubes, one of the original engineered nanomaterials, also may prove to be among the most versatile, as numerous teams of investigators continue to develop novel nanotube-based therapeutic and diagnostic tools. ...