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Nanotube Tapestry

Nanotube's 'tapestry' controls its growth

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

HOUSTON -- (Feb. 5, 2009) -- Rice University materials scientists have put a new "twist" on carbon nanotube growth. The researchers found the highly touted nanomaterials grow like tiny molecular tapestries, ...





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Nerve-Insulating Cells

Spun-sugar fibers spawn sweet technique for nerve repair

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or ...


Hollow spheres made of metal

Hollow spheres made of metal

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Producing metallic hollow spheres is complicated: It has not yet been possible to make the small sizes required for new high-tech applications. Now for the first time researchers have manufactured ground hollow ...


Engineers produce 'how-to' guide for controlling the structure of nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tiny objects known as nanoparticles are often heralded as holding great potential for future applications in electronics, medicine and other areas. The properties of nanoparticles depend on their size and structure. Now researchers ...


Engineers Produce 'How-To' Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny objects known as nanoparticles are often heralded as holding great potential for future applications in electronics, medicine and other areas. The properties of nanoparticles depend on their size and ...


MO-SCI to manufacture SRNL's unique porous walled hollow glass microspheres

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 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 ...


'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly

'2-faced' Bioacids Put a New Face on Carbon Nanotube Self-Assembly

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Nanotubes, the tiny honeycomb cylinders of carbon atoms only a few nanometers wide, are perhaps the signature material of modern engineering research, but actually trying to organize the atomic scale rods ...


New study on properties of carbon nanotubes, water could have wide-ranging implications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 02, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, according ...


Fallopian tubes offer new stem cell source

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Human tissues normally discarded after surgical procedures could be a rich additional source of stem cells for regenerative medicine. New research from BioMed Central's open access Journal of Translational Medicine shows ...


Here come the nanoSQUIDs

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 05, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 0

A French scientific team says it has developed the first nanoSQUID -- or superconducting quantum interference device -- for measuring magnetic fields.


Using cotton candy to create bloodflow routes

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cotton candy has delighted children for a century. Now it may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. The flossy stuff may be just right for creating networks of blood ...



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