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Photochemistry creates drug-trapping nanoparticles

A new method that uses light to create a well-defined polymeric nanoparticle with internal spaces that can provide a friendly environment to water-insoluble drugs.

Oct 10th, 2006

Nanologue launches ethics nanometer

A European project has developed a set of tools to help support a dialogue between scientists, policy makers and the public about the benefits and potential impacts of nanosciences and nanotechnologies.

Oct 6th, 2006

Research to illuminate inner workings of 'protein nanomachines'

Development of new instrumentation and methods for studying the molecular mechanisms of enzymes are the goals of a three-year program.

Oct 6th, 2006

Toward terahertz detectors on a single, conventional chip

A new NSF grant supports developing semiconductor-based terahertz detectors that can be integrated seamlessly with conventional electronics.

Oct 6th, 2006

Active nanoscale surfaces for biological separations

Researchers plan to develop nanoscale surfaces that actively reassemble in the presence of DNA, which could eventually lead to more efficient separation tools for genomics and proteomics.

Oct 6th, 2006

Porous carbon sponges prepared by aerosol technique

Scientists discovered a way to prepare porous carbon sponges by heating a chemical mist from an ordinary home humidifier.

Oct 5th, 2006

Highly functional biosurfactants using yeasts

Researchers in Japan have succeeded in developing a highly functional biosurfactants.

Oct 5th, 2006

First quantum teleportation between light and matter

Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have succeeded in transferring a quantum state of light to a material object.

Oct 5th, 2006

Fantastic Voyage: A new nanoscale view of the biological world

New technology makes it possible to image and quantify molecules within individual mammalian or bacterial cells.

Oct 4th, 2006

Scientists use carbon nanotubes to detect defects in composites

Researchers have discovered a means to detect and identify damage within advanced composite materials by using a network of tiny carbon nanotubes, which act in much the same manner as human nerves.

Oct 4th, 2006

Method could help carbon nanotubes become commercially viable

A new method for sorting CNTs works by exploiting subtle differences in the buoyant densities of carbon nanotubes as a function of their size and electronic behavior.

Oct 4th, 2006

Scientists solve longstanding nanoelectronic puzzle

A theoretical physicist has solved one of nanoelectronic's longstanding puzzles, which has baffled physicists seeking to make smaller, faster computer devices for more than a decade.

Oct 4th, 2006

A single polymer nanowire photodetector

Researchers from the Tyndall National Institute, Ireland, have utilised single conjugated polymer nanowires as ultra-miniature photoconductivity-based photodetectors.

Oct 4th, 2006

Manipulating light with a tiny needle

Using the tip of an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), it is possible to map the wave pattern of light, trapped in a so called optical resonator, with unprecedented precision.

Oct 3rd, 2006

Single-pixel camera takes high-res images

Using some new mathematics and a silicon chip covered with hundreds of thousands of mirrors the size of a single bacterium, engineers have come up with a more efficient digital camera design.

Oct 2nd, 2006

Improved magnetic-semiconductor sandwich

Researchers have created an improved magnetic semiconductor that solves a problem spintronics scientists have been investigating for years.

Oct 2nd, 2006

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