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Buckyballs Keeping Water Pipes Clear

Microscopic particles of carbon known as buckyballs may be able to keep the nation's water pipes clear in the same way clot-busting drugs prevent arteries from clogging up.

5 Mar 2009

New Theory Predicts Unusual Excitation Spectrum for Chain of Ultracold Gas Atoms

Theoretical physicists from Argonne National Laboratory, US, and RIKEN's Advanced Science Institute, Wako, have constructed a general theory for describing the characteristics of an unusual and newly discovered system of particles, a chain of "spin-1/2 bosons".

4 Mar 2009

New Method for Harnessing the Enormous Potential of Nanoparticles

A student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has developed a new method for harnessing the enormous potential of nanoparticles, which could lead to a new generation of medical devices, drug delivery technologies, and other applications.

4 Mar 2009

Sugar-Coated "Quantum Dots" for Drug Delivery

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting an advance that could help tap the much-heralded potential of "quantum dots" - nanocrystals that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light - in the treatment of cancer and other diseases.

4 Mar 2009

Nanomedicine Scientist Gets $7 Million for Breast Cancer Research

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D., a nanomedicine scientist at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, has received a five-year, $7 million Innovator Award fr...

4 Mar 2009

Engineers Use Carbon Nanotubes to Stitch Together Aerospace Materials

MIT engineers are using carbon nanotubes only billionths of a meter thick to stitch together aerospace materials in work that could make airplane skins and other products some 10 times stronger at a nominal increase in c...

4 Mar 2009

Studying Behavior of Electrons in Thin Graphite Films in Real Time

Nanomaterials like carbon possess unique properties, which have led to first applications in novel electronic devices and sensors. These materials are based on ordered, atomically thin layers of carbon atoms, for example...

4 Mar 2009

Luna Innovations Reports Fourth Quarter Business Highlights

Luna Innovations Incorporated (NASDAQ: LUNA), a company focusing on sensing + instrumentation and pharmaceutical nanomedicines, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 200...

3 Mar 2009

New Regulations Needed to Govern Nanotechnology Risks

In order for the potential health risks associated with nanotechnology to be properly assessed, the current regulatory system in the US must be changed. That's the conclusion of a new paper, published in the peer-rev...

3 Mar 2009

Market and Applications for Nanotechnology in the Food and Drink Industries

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. The nanoscale is not new to the food and beverage sector, with various phenomena already witnessed and exploited in nutraceuti...

3 Mar 2009