Engineers at NASA have developed a black material, which can absorb over 99% of the UV, visible, IR, and far-IR light that falls on it. The NASA team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., presented their findings at the SPIE Optics and Photonics conference.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
14 Nov 2011
A mite hitches a ride on the back of a spider and both get trapped inside Baltic amber. The mite is just 176 µm long, while the spider is 50 million years old, now.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
14 Nov 2011
One heat therapy to destroy cancer tumors using nanoparticles is called AuroShell. The AuroShell nanoparticles circulate through a patients bloodstream, exiting where the blood vessels are leaking at the site of cancer tumors.
Researchers from Empa and their Dutch co-workers have together developed a light-weight nano drive car, which is noiseless, emission-free and comprises a single molecule. It moves around on four wheels, which are powered by electricity, and can travel along a straight line on a copper surface.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
11 Nov 2011
A new online portal enables more flexible and independent learning for medical students. Normally, students are provided with around 50 to 100 specimens at the start of the semesters. They have to work independently and depend on the infrastructure of the university for studying the specimens.
The Center of Innovation for Nanobiotechnology (COIN) announced the upcoming Nano&Bio Executive Roundtable event to be hosted at The RTP Foundation on November 17, 2011, beginning at 5 pm.
This Roundtable will exp...
Adaptive 1D structures in condensed matter systems offer a powerful paradigm for nanoscale device engineering due to the combination of unique physical properties and capability for manipulation by external magnetic, electric, or strain fields without the disruption of the host lattice.
Physicists from the University of Constance, Peter Nielaba and Daniel Mutter, have observed some changes in shape memory materials at the nanometric scale. These observations have been published as an article in the European Physical Journal B.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Nov 2011
Arizona State University (ASU) and City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have entered into a partnership for the advancement of flexible electronics systems.
Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have studied the function of temperature in manipulating a nanofabrication technique known as dip-pen nanolithography for writing chemical patterns down to 20 nm.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Nov 2011
Industrial Nanotech has expanded its patented Nansulate series of protective, energy saving and hi-tech insulation coatings with the introduction of new protective coating product called Nansulate Cool Ride to decrease surface temperatures of exhausts of all-terrain vehicles, motorbikes and sport bikes.
Scientists at the Nanotechnology Research Center of the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time directly compared two basic techniques that can be utilized for chemically doping two-dimensional graphene sheets for the production of interconnects and devices.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Nov 2011
Micralyne, a MEMS foundry producing products for industrial, telecommunications and biomedical industries, and Nanoshift, a specialist in emerging technologies offering design, fabrication, process development and packaging services, have entered into a partnership.
A research team led by Erwin Frey at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen is studying the interaction between molecular motors and the cell’s skeleton called the cytoskeleton.
By Dr. Cameron Chai
9 Nov 2011
Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ: NANO), a leading supplier of advanced metrology systems, today introduced the Atlas II optical critical dimension (OCD) system, a next-generation tool for high-performance process contro...