Francois Grey has been appointed Honorary Professor at the London Centre for Nanotechnology. Prof. Grey is currently a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China?s leading science University.
Mar 5th, 2009
Read moreStudying potential health and environmental effects of tiny industrial building blocks, called nanoparticles, is the goal of a $389,303 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to Vicki Grassian, director of the University of Iowa Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute.
Mar 5th, 2009
Read moreUT Dallas is introducing a new minor in nanoscience and technology, enabling undergraduates to augment their core studies with a grounding in what?s also known as molecular engineering.
Mar 5th, 2009
Read moreHere is nanotechnology on a lighter note to get you through the rest of the weekend with a smile on your face...
Mar 5th, 2009
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Theoretical physicists from Argonne National Laboratory, US, and RIKEN's Advanced Science Institute, Wako, have constructed a general theory for describing the characteristics of an unusual and newly discovered system of particles, a chain of 'spin-1/2 bosons'.
Mar 5th, 2009
Read moreMIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in cost.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreResearch into RNA, a molecule found in every cell of our bodies, could lead to remarkable advances in the treatment of diseases such as cancer and diabetes, a meeting organised by the European Science Foundation was told.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreMauro Ferrari, Ph.D., a nanomedicine scientist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has received a five-year, $7 million Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Breast Cancer Research Program to develop a targeted new delivery system for breast cancer drugs.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreResearchers have investigated the behavior of electrons in thin graphite films in real time. They recorded the dynamics of electrons with an unprecedented temporal resolution of only 10 femtoseconds.
Mar 4th, 2009
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Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of quantum dots in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreOakland University announced the launch of the new NanoTech Research and Development Institute on their campus in Rochester, Michigan.
Mar 4th, 2009
Read moreOptical technology developed by a Northwestern University professor of biomedical engineering has been shown to be effective in detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer through analysis of neighboring tissue in the duodenum.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreIn quantum mechanics, a vanguard of physics where science often merges into philosophy, much of our understanding is based on conjecture and probabilities, but a group of researchers in Japan has moved one of the fundamental paradoxes in quantum mechanics into the lab for experimentation and observed some of the 'spooky action of quantum mechanics' directly.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreIn order for the potential health risks associated with nanotechnology to be properly assessed, the current regulatory system in the US must be changed. That is the conclusion of a new paper, published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Science and Technology.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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New research findings reveal the electrical resistance through molecular junctions can be turned 'on' and 'off' simply by pushing and pulling the junction - a feature that could be used as a switch in nanoscale electronic devices.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Just as x-ray technology, MRI and sonography transformed the practice of medicine, a newly created approach for seeing the invisible promises great potential for finding new ways to improve the health of human and microelectronic patients alike.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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