Researchers in Japan have developed a new method for producing ultra-lightweight hollow carbon fine particles (diameters ranging from several nanometers to several tens of micrometers) from lignin, which is a byproduct obtained in large quantities during the manufacture of paper or bio-ethanol, and inorganic salts.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Geoffrey von Maltzahn, a Ph.D. candidate in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, received the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for his promising innovations in the area of cancer therapy, specifically two inventions in nanomedicine: a new class of cancer therapeutics and a new paradigm for enhancing drug delivery to tumors.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Researchers at Uppsala University have managed for the first time to measure magnetic properties in new materials quantitatively with the help of electron microscopy - with unparalleled precision.
Mar 3rd, 2009
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Overcoming a critical conductivity challenge to clean energy technologies, Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an expanded surface area and demonstrates significantly greater efficiency in the transport of electrons.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read morethe Center for Nanotechnology in Society and the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies will address this question at a March 23 program.
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreSuccessful CNSE-IBM-New York State strategy to advance innovation, education and economic investment featured at National Association for Business Economics conference
Mar 3rd, 2009
Read moreThe IMEC Technology Forum brings together executives from companies and institutes in Asia, Europe and the USA to discuss advances in science and technology and to present visions for future innovations.
Mar 2nd, 2009
Read moreThe unparalleled access to state-of-the-art tools and high-intensity X-rays gives researchers at Argonne's Advanced Photon Source the capability to see structural details of cells and materials at smaller scales than ever before.
Mar 2nd, 2009
Read moreAn international team of scientists, co-led by a University of Kentucky researcher, has developed a technique for imaging nanostructures on the surface of living cells.
Mar 2nd, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the Cidetec-IK4 technological centre in Spain have developed electrochemical sensors that, amongst other functions, enable the detection of possible mutations in DNA in a more rapid manner that has been achieved to date.
Mar 2nd, 2009
Read moreThe Nanoethics Group today announced its upcoming conference on the ethical and social impacts of human enhancement technologies, especially related to nanotechnology.
Mar 2nd, 2009
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IBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy and heat in powered carbon nanotube devices.
Mar 2nd, 2009
Read moreNanotechnology will have a strong local future if industry and community can agree on the type of technologies that should be adopted, according to one of a number of findings from a nanotechnology report released last week by Australian Innovation Minister, Senator Kim Carr.
Mar 1st, 2009
Read moreA team led by Prof. Yosi Shacham-Diamand, vice-dean of TAU's Faculty of Engineering, has developed a nano-sized laboratory, complete with a microscopic workbench, to measure water quality in real time.
Feb 27th, 2009
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At Penn State, a team of researchers led by Craig Grimes has come up with an ingenious method of turning captured CO2 into methane, a combustible fuel, using the energy of the sun.
Feb 27th, 2009
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Just as sonar sends out sound waves to explore the hidden depths of the ocean, electrons can be used by scanning tunnelling microscopes to investigate the well-hidden properties of the atomic lattice of metals.
Feb 27th, 2009
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