The National Cheng Kung University held an international symposium on February 27th, entitled 'Frontiers in biomaterials-based drug and gene delivery', featuring a forum on drug and gene delivery, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine by leading experts in biomaterials from around the world.
Feb 27th, 2009
Read moreLund University in Sweden is organizing a three-day conference on 'Nanotools in Food Processing, Packaging and Safety' on September 29 - October 1, 2009.
Feb 27th, 2009
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Scientists have developed a new type of porous material that could be used to separate mixtures of different gases.
Feb 27th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Northeastern created a network of nanowires that can be scaled up more efficiently and cost-effectively to create displays such as the NASDAQ sign in New York City?s Times Square.
Feb 26th, 2009
Read moreThe research team has succeeded in lifting single polymers from a gold surface, similar to chains, and in measuring their electrical and mechanical properties during this process.
Feb 26th, 2009
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The tiny folded materials could be used as motors and capacitors, potentially leading to better computer memory storage, faster microprocessors and new nanophotonic devices.
Feb 26th, 2009
Read moreWhat has been impossible has now been shown to be possible - an alloy between two incompatible elements.
Feb 26th, 2009
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Alivisatos will be at Washington University in St. Louis 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 4, in Graham Chapel to deliver the Arthur Holly Compton Lecture on 'The Development of New Nanocrystal Molecules for Biological Sensing and Detecting' for the Assembly Series.
Feb 25th, 2009
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Using a process based on optical near-field effects, researchers created nanoscale devices based on connecting sharp-tipped electrodes with individually self-aligned carbon nanotubes.
Feb 25th, 2009
Read moreThe College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced today that it has secured $1 million in funding in the Omnibus appropriations bill to further expand a national nanotechnology research center through a partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and CNSE.
Feb 25th, 2009
Read moreWhen squeezed, electrons increase their ability to move around. In compounds such as semiconductors and electrical insulators, such squeezing can dramatically change the electrical and magnetic properties.
Feb 25th, 2009
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A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented the world's smallest version of the periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once.
Feb 25th, 2009
Read moreScientists have discovered the secrets of a sophisticated molecule that plays a role in many aspects of human health from fertility to blood pressure; digestion to mental health.
Feb 25th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and the University of Alberta have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cells).
Feb 25th, 2009
Read moreThrough computer simulations, scientists demonstrated that friction at the atomic level behaves similarly to friction generated between large objects.
Feb 25th, 2009
Read moreKey executives to hold high-level meetings with Congress.
Feb 25th, 2009
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