Using nanometer scale analysis techniques and quantities too small to explode, researchers have mapped the temperature and length-sale factors that make explosives behave the way they do.
Sep 8th, 2006
Read morePhysicists have devised a potentially groundbreaking theory demonstrating how to control the spin of particles without using superconducting magnets.
Sep 8th, 2006
Read moreThe nanotech food market is growing rapidly and will reach over $20 billion by 2010.
Sep 7th, 2006
Read moreThe first of two conferences at the Paris expo with a focus on nanotechnology relating to UV filters.
Sep 7th, 2006
Read moreMaking silicon dioxide nanocapsules by frothing polymers with supercritical carbon dioxide.
Sep 7th, 2006
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Researchers have shown how ultrasound energy can briefly "open a door" in the protective outer membranes of living cells to allow entry of drugs and other therapeutic molecules.
Sep 6th, 2006
Read moreBy using polymers containing iron, it is possible to make intelligent containers of which the access of molecules can be regulated in a chemical way.
Sep 6th, 2006
Read moreNew laser could lead to higher density DVDs, more powerful microscopes and novel tools for biology and engineering.
Sep 6th, 2006
Read moreNanoscientists have transformed a molecule of chlorophyll-a from spinach into a complex biological switch that has possible future applications for green energy, technology and medicine.
Sep 5th, 2006
Read moreResearchers have synthesized a compound in the diarylethene family whose surface becomes super-water-repellent on command.
Sep 5th, 2006
Read moreA new method for attaching tumor-targeting antibodies to the surface of buckyballs.
Sep 5th, 2006
Read moreNumerous groups are attempting to use iron nanoparticles in medical imaging applications. Researchers are also developing magnetic nanoparticles as miniature thermal scalpels for killing tumors as well as imaging them.
Sep 5th, 2006
Read moreAiming to help researchers get a better handle on how anticancer agents are triggering cell death, investigator have developed a quantum dot nanodevice that can detect and image apoptosis, also known as programmed cell death.
Sep 5th, 2006
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Gold nanoparticles can heat up fast, by tens of degrees in just a few nanoseconds, which could either damage the molecules or help study them.
Aug 31st, 2006
Read moreResearchers have figured out how nanoscale microwave transmitters gain greater signal power than the sum of their parts.
Aug 31st, 2006
Read moreResearchers show how a newly discovered molecular motor helps a cell determine which way is up.
Aug 31st, 2006
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