The folks over at Future Markets, Inc., a technology consultancy firm, have added several new topics to their series of commercialization charts on nanotechnology and nanomaterials.
Nov 18th, 2011
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Molecular 'handles' that allow on-demand growth of thick columnar films make enhanced liquid crystal devices viable.
Nov 18th, 2011
Read moreA team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of Technology have developed the world's lightest material - with a density of 0.9 mg/cc - about 100 times lighter than Styrofoam.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreIntegrating a complex, single-crystal material with "giant" piezoelectric properties onto silicon, University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers and physicists can fabricate low-voltage, near-nanoscale electromechanical devices that could lead to improvements in high-resolution 3-D imaging, signal processing, communications, energy harvesting, sensing, and actuators for nanopositioning devices, among others.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreRecent studies conducted at Marshall University have demonstrated that nanoparticles of cerium oxide - common diesel fuel additives used to increase the fuel efficiency of automobile engines - can travel from the lungs to the liver and that this process is associated with liver damage.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreThe NanoKTN is encouraging its members to apply for a share of GBP 27 million made available by the Technology Strategy Board for grants for innovative research and development projects.
Nov 17th, 2011
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The metabolism of lung cancer patients is different than the metabolism of healthy people. And so the molecules that make up cancer patients' exhaled breath are different too. A new device pioneered at the University of Colorado Cancer Center and Nobel-Prize-winning Technion University in Haifa, Israel uses gold nanoparticles to trap and define these molecules in exhaled breath.
Nov 17th, 2011
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A team of researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, the University of Muenster, and West Virginia University have demonstrated control of magnetic thermal fluctuations using current.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreProfessor Dr. Claudia Felser of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has been awarded a grant by the European Research Council worth more than 2.4 million euros to further her research into new materials based on Heusler compounds.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreToday, during Science Week, CRANN, the SFI-funded nanoscience institute based in Trinity College Dublin, has announced the launch of an innovative educational package, 'Nano in My Life'. The package will introduce Transition Year and Senior Cycle students to nanoscience, the study of materials at very tiny dimensions, which is set to become part of the proposed new Leaving Certificate syllabi.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreThe event marked the Golden Jubilee of Solid State Physics Laboratory in Dehli, a premier institute of the Defence Research and Development Board, working on development of solid state devices for defence needs.
Nov 17th, 2011
Read moreUsing nanoparticles to deliver a cocktail of aspirin and folic acid, researchers at the Western University of Health Sciences have created what could be an effective agent to prevent colon cancer.
Nov 16th, 2011
Read moreResearchers have developed an inhalable porous silica nanoparticle that not only delivers potent anticancer drugs only to non-small cell lung tumors, but also delivers agents that prevent the development of drug resistance.
Nov 16th, 2011
Read moreCancer biologists have long presumed that tumor cells shed telltale markers into the blood and that finding these blood-borne biomarkers could provide an early indicator that cancer is developing somewhere in the body. Now, a research team at the George Mason University has shown that they can fish out the "invisible" proteins masked by albumin and other high concentration proteins using porous nanoparticles decorated with a series of chemical baits, each designed to harvest specific types of trace proteins from body fluids.
Nov 16th, 2011
Read moreMaking a tumor more sensitive to radiotherapy is a primary goal of combining chemo and radiation therapy to treat many types of cancer, but with the chemotherapy drugs come unwanted side effects. Now, investigators from the University of North Carolina report what they believe is the first pre-clinical demonstration of the potential of molecularly targeted nanoparticles as a promising new class of agents that can improve chemoradiotherapy treatment.
Nov 16th, 2011
Read moreScientists developed a method to combine a tumor-homing peptide, a cell-killing peptide, and a nanoparticle that both enhances tumor cell death and allows the researchers to image the tumors. When used to treat mice with glioblastoma, this new nanosystem eradicated most tumors in one model and significantly delayed tumor development in another.
Nov 16th, 2011
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