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Nanotechnology cancer research breakthrough may provide 'magic bullet' for the debilitating effects of chemotherapy

The interdisciplinary group of researchers applied emerging nanotechnology techniques to traditional cancer research to come up with a highly effective method for the preferential killing of cancer cells while leaving ordinary cells healthy.

August 30, 2008 Read more

Improving crystal quality and purity leads to more precise explosives

Improving crystal quality and purity leads to explosive materials that are safer (less likely to react violently) when subjected to mechanical impact or heat.

August 29, 2008 Read more

University of Notre Dame names managing director for two nanotechnology centers

Robert M. Dunn, most recently the director of the Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program in the University of Notre Dame?s College of Engineering, has been named the managing director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) and the recently established Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).

August 29, 2008 Read more

Sharpest image ever made with light achieves 5 nanometer resolution

A team of scientists has produced the image of an object at the highest resolution ever achieved with X-ray light. A 100-nanometre gold particle fixed on a substrate was reconstructed with 5 nanometre resolution.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Linking targeting agents to nanoparticles just got easier

The task of linking targeting agents to nanoparticles just got easier thanks to work from the NCI Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Targeting nanoparticles to specific locations inside cancer cells increases kills

By increasing the amount of an anticancer agent that gets to tumor cells, as opposed to healthy cells, researchers hope to minimize the potential side effects of therapy while maximizing therapeutic response. This approach has been taken one step farther by targeting the specific location inside a tumor cell, where the drug ceramide exerts its cell-killing activity.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Nanocages 'cook' cancer cells

New research has quantified how many targeted nanocages bind to an individual cancer cell and how much light is needed to kill the cells.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Effectiveness of nanotherapeutics impacted by shape, not just size

Researchers have demonstrated that nanoparticles designed with a specific shape, size, and surface chemistry are taken up into cells and behave differently within cells depending on these attributes.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Nanotechnology applications could benefit from DNA tubes with programmable sizes

Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a simple process for mass producing molecular tubes of identical - and precisely programmable - circumferences.

August 29, 2008 Read more

EU-India cooperation to find new materials for applications in nanotechnology

A research team at Uppsala University will be leading a collaborative project between the EU and India in theoretical materials science. The objective is to find new materials for applications in nanotechnology.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Patent granted for continuous flow method for the separation of carbon nanotubes according to their chiralities

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent for a MITRE-developed process that provides a path to achieving what has been called the Holy Grail of nanotechnology. U.S. Patent number 7,347,981 was issued to MITRE earlier this year. It covers a continuous flow method for the separation of carbon nanotubes according to their chiralities, the characteristic twists in their molecular structures.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Fabrication of highest purity semiconductors key for nanoelectronic circuits

In order to realize the electrical units of voltage, resistance and current with highest accuracy quantum effects in nano-circuits are nowadays used. Important prerequisites are extremely pure semiconductor layers where high-mobile electrons move through the crystal without collision with residual impurities.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Neue, energiesparende Werkstoffe mit Nanotechnologie

Im Bemuehen, den Verlust kostbarer Energie beim Transport zu den Verbrauchern zu verringern, bieten nanokristalline Werkstoffe viel versprechende Aussichten.

August 29, 2008 Read more

The secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas discovered

The secret of electron heating in low temperature plasmas has been discovered by the Bochum researchers at the Center of Excellence 'Plasma Science and Technology' (CPST) at the Ruhr University - who have thereby found the answer to the question which has been puzzling scientists for decades of why particularly the electrons in such plasmas are so hot.

August 29, 2008 Read more

Nanotomography produces incredible high-resolution 3-D images of nanostructures

X-rays from a synchrotron can produce incredible high-resolution three-dimensional images of nanoscale crystal structures .

August 29, 2008 Read more

Researchers for the first time observe harmonious coexistence of magnetic and superconductive states

Physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity are necessary for each other's existence.

August 28, 2008 Read more