Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a plaster that accelerates wound healing and is easily removed from the wound at any time. Burn victims in particular may profit from this invention in the future.
May 31st, 2012
Read moreEdmonton is Canada's nanotechnology centre of excellence.
May 31st, 2012
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Researchers have shown that graphene has two other properties that could have applications in high-speed telecommunications devices and laser technology - population inversion of electrons and broadband optical gain.
May 31st, 2012
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Novel technology could enable new tools for delivering drugs directly to disease sites in the body.
May 30th, 2012
Read moreStudy IDs zeolite minerals that are one-third more efficient for carbon capture.
May 30th, 2012
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Synthetic platelets have been developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif.
May 30th, 2012
Read moreThe International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently published a Technical Report (TR) that provides guidance on the physicochemical characterization of manufactured nano-objects prior to toxicological assessment.
May 30th, 2012
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Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according to researchers.
May 30th, 2012
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A research group headed by MANA Scientist Dr. Qingmin Ji, in joint research with Prof. Frank Caruso of the University of Melbourne, developed a new elastic capsule using an inorganic nanometer-thickness flake-shaped material.
May 30th, 2012
Read moreResearchers of the UPNA-Public University of Navarre have developed a type of coating for construction materials. It is based on nanoparticles that interact with sunlight and trigger a chemical reaction that eliminates certain air pollutants.
May 30th, 2012
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The discussion about environmentally friendly regenerative sources of energy and sustainable production and consumption revolves around three aspects of photosynthesis: first, sunlight as an infinite and clean source of energy; second, the conversion and storage of energy in the form of hydrogen and hydrogen-rich carbon compounds; third, the production of food for earth's growing population.
May 30th, 2012
Read moreA team of surface scientists has managed to fix single gold atoms on special sites of an iron-oxide surface. This could open the door to more efficient catalysts, requiring less of the precious material.
May 30th, 2012
Read moreSuper Tiny Giraffe is UC Riverside graduate student Shaahin Amini's entry for the "Science as Art" competition, sponsored by the MRS (Materials Research Society). The photos are of a mix of nickel, aluminum and carbon viewed through a high-powered microscope.
May 30th, 2012
Read moreInterdisziplinaeres Verbundvorhaben MRCyte gestartet.
May 29th, 2012
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A University of Washington mathematician is part of an international team working to understand invisibility and extend its possible applications. The group has now devised an amplifier that can boost light, sound or other waves while hiding them inside an invisible container.
May 29th, 2012
Read moreDuke University chemists created a new set of flexible, electrically conductive nanowires from thin strands of copper atoms mixed with nickel. The copper-nickel nanowires, in the form of a film, conduct electricity even under conditions that break down the transfer of electrons in plain silver and copper nanowires, a new study shows.
May 29th, 2012
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