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IQC Shares Multi-Institution Grant to Fund Research into Advanced Materials for Superconducting Qubits

The Quantum Device Theory group led by IQC faculty member Dr. Frank Wilhelm will be sharing in a multi-institution grant to fund research into advanced materials for superconducting qubits. The grant, funded by the I...

23 Sep 2009

Physicists Made an Important Advance in Quantum Mechanics

Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have made an important advance in quantum mechanics using a superconducting electrical circuit. The finding is reported in this week's issue of the journal Nature. The researchers sh...

23 Sep 2009

Flasks, Beakers, and Hot Plates May Soon be a Thing of the Past in Medicinal Chemistry Labs

Flasks, beakers, and hot plates may soon be a thing of the past in medicinal chemistry labs. Instead of handling a few experiments on a benchtop, scientists may simply pop a microchip into a computer and instantly run thousands of chemical reactions, with results literally shrinking the lab down to the size of a thumbnail.

23 Sep 2009

Magnetically Responsive Gold Nanostars Offer New Approach to Biomedical Imaging

Researchers at Purdue University have created magnetically responsive gold nanostars that may offer a new approach to biomedical imaging. The nanostars gyrate when exposed to a rotating magnetic field and can scatter lig...

23 Sep 2009

New siRNA Delivery Vehicle Based on Nanotechnology

Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNAs, or siRNAs, can turn off the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the more promising new classes of anticancer drugs in developme...

23 Sep 2009

Batteries Made of Paper Could Power Electronics in the Future

Imagine a gift wrapped in paper you really do treasure and want to carefully fold and save. That's because the wrapping paper lights up with words like "Happy Birthday" or "Happy Holidays," thanks to a built in battery - an amazing battery made out of paper.

23 Sep 2009

Scientists Develop Way to Target Brain Cancer Cells using Nanotechnology

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Medical Center's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorgani...

23 Sep 2009

Golden Nanotubes Detect Tumor Cells, Map Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Biomedical researchers at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) in Little Rock have developed a special contrast-imaging agent made of gold-coated carbon na...

23 Sep 2009

Applied DNA Sciences Introduces Botanical SigNature DNA Markers

Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB: APDN), a provider of DNA-based security solutions, today announced that it can create botanical SigNature® DNA markers that can individually mark valuables, and rare, limited edition collectibles that require a forensic level of security and authentication.

23 Sep 2009