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Scientists Create Light-Bending Nanoparticles

Scientists Create Light-Bending Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 03, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metallic nanoparticles and other structures can manipulate light in ways that are not possible with conventional optical materials. In a recent example of this, Rice University researchers ...


Silicon Nanoparticles

Safer nanoparticles spotlight tumors, deliver drugs

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule ...


Silver Nanoparticle Mirror

Beaming new light on life: From beetles to aircraft, nanoparticles aid microscope views

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(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 ...





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Antibodies produced within joints in rheumatoid arthritis

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Antibodies produced within the joints themselves may be responsible for joint damage in rheumatoid arthritis, according to new research published in PLoS Medicine.


Saturn/Flowers New Nano-Structures

Sophisticated nano-structures assembled with magnets (Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- What do Saturn and flowers have in common? As shapes, both possess certain symmetries that are easily recognizable in the natural world. Now, at an extremely small level, researchers from ...


Big step in tiny technology

Big step in tiny technology

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (46) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial step in developing minuscule structures with application potential in sophisticated sensors, catalysis, and nanoelectronics has been developed by Scottish researchers.


Australian study sheds light on kidney repair and disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A study by Monash University researchers has shed new light on the microscopic antennas in the kidney that are involved in the organ's repair process.


Protein 'tubules' free avian flu virus from immune recognition

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created Nov 05, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A protein found in the virulent avian influenza virus strain called H5N1 forms tiny tubules in which it "hides" the pieces of double-stranded RNA formed during viral infection, which otherwise would prompt an antiviral immune ...


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 ...


Nanometric butterfly wings created

Nanometric butterfly wings created

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 3

A team of researchers from the State University of Pennsylvania (USA) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) have developed a technique to replicate biological structures, such as butterfly wings, ...


Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Tiny 'MEMS' devices to filter, amplify electronic signals

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are developing a new class of tiny mechanical devices containing vibrating, hair-thin structures that could be used to filter electronic signals in cell phones and for other more ...


Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

You can think of it as origami - very high-tech origami. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a technique for fabricating three-dimensional, single-crystalline silicon structures from thin films by coupling ...



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