UCLA chemists for the first time have employed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - a technique normally reserved for medical clinicians peering inside the human body - to better measure the temperature of gases inside a catalytic reactor.
Oct 24th, 2013
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Recently, to help better understand the potential impact nanotechnology could have on a drug's quality, safety, or effectiveness, the Nanotechnology Risk Assessment Working Group of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research finalized a series of risk assessment and risk management exercises to identify potential risks associated with a drug product that contains nanomaterials.
Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreThe first edition of TNT Japan (Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference) will be held from the 29th to the 31st of January 2014 at Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, and is being launched following the overwhelming success of earlier TNT Conferences across Europe.
Oct 24th, 2013
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The University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training, in collaboration with the UCF NanoScience Technology Center, recently hosted a workshop to explore data collection, analysis and modeling of nanoparticle and cell interactions for cancer research.
Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreHigh-impact research promises new method of studying neuropsychiatric diseases and mapping the relationship between brain activity and behavior.
Oct 24th, 2013
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A pair of common kitchen ingredients inspired Cornell researchers' improvement of the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries, a promising alternative to today's lithium-ion batteries.
Oct 24th, 2013
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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Development Center X-ray Technology work with the biggest and smallest computed tomography scanners in the world - equipment that is able to scan everything from entire shipping containers to tiny biological samples.
Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreEight projects, involving 42 partners from 15 countries/regions, will be funded with 7 million euros provided by EuroNanoMed II funding agencies. The research projects were selected out of 42 submitted proposals, which engaged 216 research groups from 20 EU member and associated states/regions.
Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreResearchers in Nottingham are to develop a more realistic model of drug uptake which could offer a reliable alternative to animal testing methods.
Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreResearchers and physicians at Johns Hopkins University will collaborate with the nanoelectronics research center imec to advance silicon applications in healthcare, beginning with development of a device to enable a broad range of clinical tests. The corresponding tests will be performed outside the laboratory. The collaboration, announced today, will combine the Johns Hopkins clinical and research expertise with imec's nanoelectronics capabilities.
Oct 24th, 2013
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A huge plastic balloon floated high in the skies over New Mexico on Sept. 29, 2013, carrying instruments to collect climate-related test data with the help of carbon nanotube chips made by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Oct 24th, 2013
Read moreNew research shows scientists' first steps into the unexplored territory of interfacial materials that could someday yield smaller, faster, more energy-efficient devices.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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Scientists have a new way to edge around a difficult problem in quantum physics, now that a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have proved their recent theory about how particles of light flow within a novel device they built.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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You might think that a pair of parallel plates hanging motionless in a vacuum just a fraction of a micrometer away from each other would be like strangers passing in the night - so close but destined never to meet. Thanks to quantum mechanics, you would be wrong.
Oct 23rd, 2013
Read morePICS Project will develop innovative atomic layer deposition materials and tools for high-density 3D integrated capacitors.
Oct 23rd, 2013
Read moreReal-time monitoring of cancer cell processes could soon be possible thanks to nanoscale diamonds used as biosensors.
Oct 23rd, 2013
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