The creation of a reproducible crystallisation process is a fundamental challenge to drug manufacturers, but a technique which provides real time detailed analyses of chemical processes could provide an answer.
Jan 19th, 2009
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Electronic systems designed to perform simple functions, such as monitor the temperature on a yogurt pot, mustn't cost much: This is where printed electronics are at an advantage. Researchers are now significantly improving the properties of printed circuits.
Jan 19th, 2009
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Exposing silicon wafers to light during chip manufacture requires special fixtures called chucks. Novel electrostatic chucks made of glass ceramics are incredibly flat. This prevents structural distortions on the exposure mask and the silicon chip.
Jan 19th, 2009
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Algae is a livid green giveaway of nutrient pollution in a lake. Scientists would love to reproduce that action in tiny particles that would turn different colors if exposed to biological weapons, food spoilage or signs of poor health in the blood. Now, University of Florida engineering researchers have tapped the working parts of cells to clear a major hurdle to creating such 'smart dust'.
Jan 18th, 2009
Read moreThanks to a new type of nanoparticle developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, future cancer patients may be able to receive their medication in pill form.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreResearchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a type of nanoparticle that can image angiogenesis using positron emission tomography.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreWorking with a nanoparticle designed to target and image glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, investigators at the University of Washington in Seattle have found that these same nanoparticles inhibit tumor cell invasion, one of the key events that leads to the metastatic spread of cancer.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreAntibodies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) have proven themselves as potent anticancer drugs.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreA multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreProfessor Sir Michael Pepper has been appointed to the Pender Chair of Nanoelectronics at UCL (University College of London) where he will work on joint projects between the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreThe Institut de physique et de chimie des materiaux de Strasbourg inaugurated its new transmission electron microscope on January 9, 2009. This instrument, which will be devoted to studying matter at the atomic scale, is one of the best-performing in Europe.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreThe ability to stream videos online with the quality of high-end home theater systems, and to run computer programs a thousand times faster, are some of the future advances being made possible by a Penn State research team led by Tony Jun Huang, the James Henderson assistant professor of engineering science and mechanics.
Jan 16th, 2009
Read moreThe bill, identical to a bill passed overwhelmingly by the House last year, reauthorizes and updates the successful federal interagency nanotechnology research and development program.
Jan 16th, 2009
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Dr. Tim Wilkinson from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering's Photonics Research Group has made an exciting breakthrough by combining liquid crystals with vertically grown carbon nanotubes to create a reconfigurable three-dimensional liquid crystal device structure.
Jan 16th, 2009
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Europe's largest annual nanotechnology conference, Nanotech Europe 2009, which will take place on September 28-30, 2009 in Berlin, has now opened their call for contributions.
Jan 16th, 2009
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An international team of researchers has developed a numerical modeling technique to study specific types of particles called excitons, which consist of a positively and a negatively charged electron and hole, respectively.
Jan 16th, 2009
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