Nanomaterials
hideNanomaterials 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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News tagged with nanomaterials
Scientists build world's first nanofluidic device with complex 3-D surfaces
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Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have capitalized on a process for manufacturing integrated circuits at ...
Models present new view of nanoscale friction
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To understand friction on a very small scale, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers had to think big.
Quantum dots and nanomaterials: Ingredients for better lighting and more reliable power
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 13, 2009 |
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Imagine flexible lighting devices manufactured by using printing techniques. Imagine solar power sources equally as reliable and as portable as any conventional power source.
Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Catalyze Brain Tumor Death
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Rapid DNA Detection Quickly Diagnoses Infections
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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(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 ...
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 ...
Researcher looking for nano environmental footprint
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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(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.
Nanotube risk assessment
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 18, 2009 |
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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 ...
Scientists advance safety of nanotechnology
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growing ...
Nanotech in your vitamins
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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The ability of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the safety of dietary supplements using nanomaterials is severely limited by lack of information, lack of resources and the agency's lack of statutory authority ...
Carbon Nanotubes Continue To Show Promise in Battle Against Cancer
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 30, 2009 |
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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. ...
Special Nanotubes May Be Used as a Vehicle for Treating Neurodegenerative Disorders
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Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have demonstrated that magnetic nanotubes combined with nerve growth factor can enable specific cells to differentiate into ...
Nanoscale 'Fountain Pen' Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Canadian researchers set to study impact of nanomaterials on aquatic ecosystems
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 06, 2009 |
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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 ...
Harnessing carbon nanomaterials for drug delivery systems, oxygen sensors
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 17, 2009 |
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(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 ...
