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Supramolecularly Assembled Gold Nanoparticles for Targeted Treatment of Cancer Cells

A variety of studies by numerous investigators are demonstrating that gold nanoparticles have real promise as anticancer agents. When irradiated with light, gold nanoparticles become hot quickly, hot enough to generate e...

21 May 2010

Gold Nanoparticle Detecting Early Stage Prostate Cancer

Recent studies support the idea that the standard methods of screening men for prostate cancer leave much to be desired, particularly in terms of their inability to have much effect on prostate cancer survival. Now, a te...

21 May 2010

New Method of Characterizing Tumor Biopsies using Quantum Dots

One important discovery made about cancer over the past decade is that as a tumor develops, the molecular identity of its cells begins to diverge. As a result, any given tumor is likely to contain groups of cells with di...

21 May 2010

Mobius to Discuss UV Fiber Laser Application for Thin Wafer Processing at 2010 CMOS Workshop

Mobius Photonics, an innovative producer of short pulsed fiber laser sources (IR, green, and UV laser), will participate in the 2010 CMOS (Communications, Microsystems, Optoelectronics, Sensors) Emerging Technologies Workshop through an invited presentation from Vice President of Business Management Kiyomi Monro.

21 May 2010

HORIBA Scientific Extends Spectral Range of Auto SE

HORIBA Scientific has extended the spectral range of the Auto SE in the Near Infra Red, with the instrument now covering the wavelength range from 440 to 1000 nm. The enhanced performance makes it ideal for automatic characterization of photovoltaic, semiconductor, flat panel display and optoelectronic thin film applications.

From HORIBA 21 May 2010

Theoretical Discovery of a Method of Using Magnetic Materials to Control Macroscopic States of Superconducting Devices

Shiro Kawabata of Nanomaterials Theory Group, the Nanotechnology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and his colleagues have discovered, from simulations of Josephso...

21 May 2010

Altairnano’s CEO to Present at Credit Suisse Future of Energy Conference

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., a leading provider of energy storage systems for clean, efficient power and energy management, today announced its participation at the Credit Suisse Future of Energy Conference to be held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington D.C. from June 2 - 4, 2010.

From Altair Nanotechnologies 21 May 2010

Dais Selected for Clean Technology Trade Mission to China

Dais Analytic Corporation (OTCBB: DLYT), a nanotechnology materials company focused on developing and selling applications for energy efficient heating and cooling/refrigeration products, commercial and industrial water ...

21 May 2010

Owlstone Nanotech Wins Contract for Application Development Work

Advance Nanotech, Inc. today reported that Owlstone Nanotech, Inc. has received an order for application development work from a global food processing company.

From Owlstone Nanotech 21 May 2010

Equipartition Theory Holds True for Brownian Particles

A century after Albert Einstein said we would never be able to observe the instantaneous velocity of tiny particles as they randomly shake and shimmy, so called Brownian motion, physicist Mark Raizen and his group have done so.

21 May 2010

Researchers Create Janus Dendrimer Assemblies for Drug Delivery

An international collaboration led by chemists and engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has prepared a library of synthetic biomaterials that mimic cellular membranes and that show promise in targeted delivery of cancer drugs, gene therapy, proteins, imaging and diagnostic agents and cosmetics safely to the body in the emerging field called nanomedicine.

21 May 2010

Successful Completion of First Synthetic Bacterial Cell Construction

Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), a not-for-profit genomic research organization, published results today describing the successful construction of the first self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell....

21 May 2010

New Technique to Manufacture Gallium Arsenide Thin Films

Thanks to a new semiconductor manufacturing method pioneered at the University of Illinois, the future of solar energy just got brighter.

21 May 2010

Company Qualifies Veeco's TurboDisc K465i GaN MOCVD System for LED Production

Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), announced today that Epistar Corporation, headquartered in Taiwan, has recently qualified Veeco's TurboDisc(R) K465i(TM) gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) System for high volume light emitting diode (LED) production.

From Veeco 20 May 2010

Striking New Details About the Electronic Structure of Graphene

Scientists working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered striking new details about the electronic structure of graphene, crystalline sheets of carbon just one atom thick.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 20 May 2010