Rice University scientists have developed the first method for sorting semiconducting carbon nanotubes based on their size, a long-awaited development that could form the basis of a nanotube purification system.
Jun 23rd, 2006
Read moreThere may not be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but there appears to be nanocrystalline diamonds at the end of a process to produce and store hydrogen using anthracite coal.
Jun 23rd, 2006
Read morePhotoprotective effect measured for the first time at single biomolecule level.
Jun 22nd, 2006
Read moreThe University of Leicester is the co-ordinating partner in an international project (Nanospin) involving information that can be stored on nano-particles.
Jun 22nd, 2006
Read moreResearchers in Europe have monitored the catalytic process and proposed an explanation for the high catalytic activity of gold.
Jun 22nd, 2006
Read moreThe University of Bath in the UK is to lead an international three-year project to develop a system which could cut out the need for wiring to carry electric currents in silicon chips.
Jun 22nd, 2006
Read moreIn the ongoing search for better ways to target anticancer drugs to kill tumors without making people sick, researchers find that nanoparticles called buckyballs might be used to significantly boost the payload of drugs carried by tumor-targeting antibodies.
Jun 21st, 2006
Read moreAiming at developing and exploiting advanced nanostructure generation techniques, the NANOCOLD project focused on microfabrication of mechanical masks for massive parallel nanolithography.
Jun 21st, 2006
Read moreThe University of Limerick, a participant in the IST-funded MINT project, investigated the use of folded RNA as a templating agent in the construction of nanostructures.
Jun 21st, 2006
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Researchers have developed a technique to get a closer-than-ever look at individual atoms within crystal molecules -- allowing them, for the first time, to see the polarity, or physical alignment, of those constituent atoms and to get a view of the smaller atoms.
Jun 20th, 2006
Read moreA team of investigators in Spain has used two different sugars to create a nanoparticle that can entrap water-soluble molecules such as proteins.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreInvestigators in France have developed a versatile new method for creating nanoparticles that are both magnetic and fluorescent.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreUsing a hybrid liposome-nanocapsule, researchers in France have developed a lipid nanocapsule that appears to overcome the solubility problem.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreAn international team of investigators has developed a method that uses clusters of gold nanoparticles to create vapor microbubbles that can kill targeted cells.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreResearchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created an optically switchable material that alters its surface characteristics when exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light.
Jun 19th, 2006
Read moreThe researchers are after a new, high-tech catalyst that takes some of the energy, labor and toxic chemicals out of biodiesel production.
Jun 19th, 2006
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