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Nanotechnology is one way to combat the counterfeit supply chain

Counterfeit products are depriving manufacturers of revenue, harming brand integrity and, in some cases, compromising safety. Accordingly, manufacturers and brand owners are fighting to keep phony goods out of their supply chains.

June 1, 2007 Read more

France to study effects of nanoparticles and nanomaterials on health and the environment

The Observatory for Micro and Nano Technologies (OMNT) has announced the setting up of a multidisciplinary working group responsible for providing a scientific watch on the effects of nanoparticles and nanomaterials on health and the environment.

June 1, 2007 Read more

Nanotechnology tapped to boost hybrid car efficiency

Nissan opened a facility to explore cutting-edge science like nanotechnology in its quest for environmentally friendly vehicles.

June 1, 2007 Read more

Single spinning nuclei in diamond offer a stable quantum computing building block

Surmounting several distinct hurdles to quantum computing, physicists have found that individual carbon-13 atoms in a diamond lattice can be manipulated with extraordinary precision to create stable quantum mechanical memory and a small quantum processor.

May 31, 2007 Read more

Practical protein nanotubes

Chemists in Japan have used a widely available protein and a straightforward technique to make nanotubes that can bind reversibly to oxygen, just like haemoglobin.

May 31, 2007 Read more

Golden glue

A single gold atom might be able to serve as a versatile glue to bind together different kinds of monomers into completely unknown structures.

May 31, 2007 Read more

Switchable two-color light source on a silicon chip

Physicists have managed to make silicon shine red and blue in an alternating fashion.

May 30, 2007 Read more

Regulated drug release thanks to nano bubbles

A new method for making the surface of metal stents highly nano porous by producing millions of nano bubbles underneath.

May 30, 2007 Read more

Canadian nanotechnology policy framework

CIELAP, the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, held a one-day workshop in Toronto to explore policy considerations for nanotechnology.

May 30, 2007 Read more

New designer lipid-like peptide with lipid nanostructures for drug delivery systems

New findings not only help us to understand the basic science of how lipid-like peptides interact with lipid molecules, but also may provide new strategies for the encapsulation and the delivery of biological active materials.

May 30, 2007 Read more

Nanoscale imaging reveals unexpected behaviors in high-temperature superconductors

Recent discoveries regarding the physics of ceramic superconductors may help improve scientists' understanding of resistance-free electrical power.

May 30, 2007 Read more

Researchers create new nanotechnology field - spinplasmonics

University of Alberta research team has combined two fields of study in nanotechnology to create a third field that the researchers believe will lead to revolutionary advances in computer electronics, among many other areas.

May 30, 2007 Read more

Better insight into brain anatomical structures

Researchers have now developed a new MRI contrast agent using manganese oxide nanoparticles that produces images of the anatomic structures of mouse brain which are as clear as those obtained by histological examination.

May 30, 2007 Read more

Research center unites biomedical competitors to fund medical technology development

A new research center will allow competing biomedical companies to pool their funding to develop new medical technologies for minimally invasive surgical procedures.

May 29, 2007 Read more

Magnetic 'handedness' could lead to better magnetic storage devices

Better magnetic storage devices for computers and other electronics could result from new work by researchers in Germany and the United States.

May 28, 2007 Read more

A scaffold of biological molecules to manufacture glass nanotubes

Study of a therapeutic peptide, Lanreotide, has revealed that this peptide can serve as a scaffold for the spontaneous formation of silica nanotubes by simple mixing with a silica precursor in water.

May 28, 2007 Read more