An international team of researchers has used pioneering electron microscopy techniques to discover an important mechanism behind the reaction of metallic nanoparticles with the environment. Crucially, the research shows that oxidation of metals - the process that describes, for example, how iron reacts with oxygen, in the presence of water, to form rust - proceeds much more rapidly in nanoparticles than at the macroscopic scale.
Nov 3rd, 2013
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Research from MIT shows carbon nanotubes that detect nitric oxide can be implanted under the skin for more than a year.
Nov 3rd, 2013
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First-of-its-kind, brain-inspired device looks toward highly efficient and fast parallel computing networks.
Nov 1st, 2013
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The Symposium will take place on 6-7 November, and the session topics are: Nano Imaging, Manipulation and Diagnostics; Nanoparticles and Nanotherapies; Nanomaterials in Health and Medicine (including Nanotoxicology); and Synthetic Biology.
Nov 1st, 2013
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The NanoSafety Cluster is an EC initiative to maximise the synergies between the past, ongoing and future FP7 nanosafety projects. Each of these projects addresses key aspects of nanosafety, including toxicology, ecotoxicology, exposure assessment, risk assessment, standardisation, and mechanisms of interaction.
Nov 1st, 2013
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Nanotechnology may provide new strategies for regenerative medicine, including better tools to improve or restore damaged tissues, according to a review paper by Taiwanese researchers.
Nov 1st, 2013
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Imec, a world-leading nanoelectronics research center and JSR, a leading materials company, announce that they have successfully used JSR's innovative PA (Photo-patternable Adhesive) material for wafer-scale processing of lab-on-chip devices.
Nov 1st, 2013
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Mechanically tough hydrogels that repair themselves within seconds are now easier to manufacture thanks to novel polymer binding agents.
Nov 1st, 2013
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Nanoscale images may provide 'hole' story on pore-making antibiotic peptides
Oct 31st, 2013
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Columbia Engineering researchers have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to electrically contact an atomically thin two-dimensional material only along its one-dimensional edge, rather than contacting it from the top, which has been the conventional approach. With this new contact architecture, they have developed a new assembly technique for layered materials that prevents contamination at the interfaces, and, using graphene as the model 2D material, show that these two methods in combination result in the cleanest graphene yet realized.
Oct 31st, 2013
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The McDevitt Research Group, a medical micro device group committed to improving the speed, accuracy and affordability of global disease diagnosis, announces the p-BNC, the Programmable Bio-Nano-Chip system.
Oct 31st, 2013
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A new class of materials developed at the University of Arkansas may influence the next generation of nanotechnology devices, in which integrated circuits are composed of many layers of dissimilar materials.
Oct 31st, 2013
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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received two grants totaling nearly $1.7 million to build nanoparticles that seek and destroy metastases too small to be detected with current technologies.
Oct 31st, 2013
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Following the overwhelming success of the last edition, nanoPT, the International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, will be organized again in Porto (Portugal) from 12 to 14 of February 2014.
Oct 31st, 2013
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Researchers have developed and patented a new source of light emitter based on boron nitride nanotubes and suitable for developing high-efficiency optoelectronic devices.
Oct 31st, 2013
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Rapidly and efficiently converting chemical weapons into nontoxic products in remote areas is one of the most difficult tasks in the disposal of weapons of mass destruction. A team from the University of California, San Diego has now described how self-propelled micromotors can accelerate the oxidative neutralization of nerve agents by intensively mixing the remediation solution.
Oct 31st, 2013
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