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Nanomaterials is a field which takes a materials science-based approach to nanotechnology. It studies materials with morphological features on the nanoscale, and especially those which have special properties stemming from their nanoscale dimensions. Nanoscale is usually defined as smaller than a one tenth of a micrometer in at least one dimension, though this term is sometimes also used for materials smaller than one micrometer.

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The next medical frontier: nano-surgery

The next medical frontier: nano-surgery

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering professor's nanorobot could be performing non-invasive surgical procedures on patients with tumors within the next decade.


Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Air Force Center of Excellence awarded in nanostructures and improved cognition

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Georgia Institute of Technology has been awarded a U.S. Air Force Center of Excellence to design nanostructures for energy harvesting and adaptive materials, and to develop tools to optimize critical cognitive ...


Where do nanomaterials go in the body?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tiny, engineered nanomaterials can already be found in many consumer products, and have been hailed as having widespread future uses in areas ranging from medicine to industrial processes. However, little is known about what ...


Penn study: Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Transforming nanowires into nano-tools using cation exchange reactions

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale ...


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Rapid DNA Detection Quickly Diagnoses Infections

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new portable device can detect bacteria and help prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This new tool takes from 15 minutes to 2 hours to diagnose a patient for infectious diseases and ...


Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Catalyze Brain Tumor Death

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 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 ...


Graphene bolsters battery work, biosensors

A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 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 ...


Nanotube risk assessment

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Italian scientists suggest that we need a much more detailed toxicological approach to hazard assessment before judgement regarding the long-term safety of carbon nanotubes can be made. They outline their results in the International Jo ...


Making Nanowires More Electrically Stable

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's widely predicted that future electronics will largely depend on something really small -- nanomaterials used for building nanoelectronics. A key component of these tiny circuits is stable nanowires that ...


Harnessing carbon nanomaterials for drug delivery systems, oxygen sensors

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two nanoscale devices recently reported by University of Pittsburgh researchers in two separate journals harness the potential of carbon nanomaterials to enhance technologies for drug or imaging agent delivery ...


Targeted Nanoparticles Boost Arsenic’s Anticancer Punch

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Arsenic trioxide has a long history as a potent human poison, but it also has proven valuable as one of the primary treatment options for acute promyelocytic leukemia. Efforts to use arsenic trioxide to treat other types ...


Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint

Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 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.


Canadian researchers set to study impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A team of Canadian scientists and engineers, led by the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, will collaborate on a $3.39 million, three-year study to assess the potential effects of nanoparticles ...


Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 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. ...


Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A research team at Northwestern University has developed a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells. The tool, called the nanofountain probe, functions in two different ...