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New Way for Drug Delivery into Tumors Using Nanoparticles

Clinical trials using patients’ own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only if the patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply rapidly, and those drugs have life-threatening side effects.

16 Aug 2010

Researchers Develop New Tool to Determine How Nanoparticles React with Cells

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a method for predicting the ways nanoparticles will interact with biological systems – including the human body. Their work could have implications f...

From North Carolina State University 16 Aug 2010

Nanotechnology Researchers Discover New and More Efficient Way to Encode Quantum Information within Silicon

A team of scientists based at the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the National High Magnetic Field Lab (NHMFL) in Florida has discovered a new and more efficient way to encode quantum information within silicon.

16 Aug 2010

Intevac Secures New Order for LEAN SOLAR Thin Film Deposition System

Intevac, Inc. announced today it has received an order for a LEAN SOLAR™ deposition system for shipment in the first quarter of 2011.

13 Aug 2010

DARPA Fund Supports Development of New Bio-Inspired Nanosensors

Scientists at GE Global Research, GE’s technology development arm, in collaboration with Air Force Research Laboratory, State University at Albany, and University of Exeter, have received a four-year, $6.3 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new bio-inspired nanostructured sensors that would enable faster, more selective detection of dangerous warfare agents and explosives.

13 Aug 2010

Carbon Nanotubes Making Waves In Kayak Design

Baytubes®, the carbon nanotubes from Bayer MaterialScience, are now making waves in kayak design, marking a new chapter in the evolution of these popular boats, which were originally made by the Inuits using wood, bone and animal skin.

13 Aug 2010

Ultra-Strong Interaction Between Light and Matter Realized

Researchers around the world are working on the development of quantum computers that will be vastly superior to present-day computers. Here, the strong coupling of quantum bits with light quanta plays a pivotal role. Pr...

13 Aug 2010

Scientists Makes Microwave Fields Visible Using Clouds Of Ultracold Atoms

Microwaves are an essential part of modern communication technology. Mobile phones and laptops, for example, are equipped with integrated microwave circuits for wireless communication. Sophisticated techniques for measur...

13 Aug 2010

Attosecond Real-Time Observation of a Quantum Hole

An international team of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (www.attoworld.de), led by Professor Ferenc Krausz at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and LMU Munich, in collaborations with researchers from the ...

13 Aug 2010

Methodist Hospital Research Institute Appoints Biomedical Nanotechnology Expert as New CEO

Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D, an internationally recognized leader, collaborator and scientist specializing in biomedical nanotechnology, was named President and CEO of The Methodist Hospital Research Institute today. “...

13 Aug 2010

European Union Awards Fund to LSBU for Nanomaterials Research

Two teams of researchers lead by academics at London South Bank University (LSBU) have been awarded funding from the European Union to help develop innovative, environmentally friendly technology which will contribute to...

13 Aug 2010

Material Scientists Use Nanoplates to Test Lithium Manganese Phosphate Batteries

A little wax and soap can help build electrodes for cheaper lithium ion batteries, according to a study in August 11 issue of Nano Letters. The one-step method will allow battery developers to explore lower-priced alternatives to the lithium ion-metal oxide batteries currently on the market.

13 Aug 2010

Researchers Fabricate Silk Metamaterial Composite at Terahertz Frequency

Researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering and Boston University have fabricated and characterized the first large area metamaterial structures patterned on implantable, bio-compatible silk substrates. ...

13 Aug 2010

Harvard University Researchers Develop New NanoFETs to Probe Inside Cells

Chemists and engineers at Harvard University have fashioned nanowires into a new type of V-shaped transistor small enough to be used for sensitive probing of the interior of cells.

13 Aug 2010

Delivery of First PROVE Photomask System Featuring 193 nm Optics

Carl Zeiss reports the delivery of the first PROVE™ Registration and Overlay Metrology System for photomasks to NuFlare Technology, the world leading supplier of e-beam based maskwriters. It is the kick-off for a series of deliveries in the upcoming months.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 13 Aug 2010