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New Man-Made Materials Could Produce Unique Chaotic Motion in Electron Beams

A team at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute in Wako has predicted that man-made structures called metamaterials could produce instabilities in electron beams*. The effect could provide new methods for generating and amplifying optical signals.

26 Sep 2008

New Graphene-Based Material Help Solve Structure of Graphite Oxide

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, energy storage and production, and transportation such as airplanes and cars has been created by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin.

26 Sep 2008

New Imaging Method for Breast Cancer Utilizing Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles and Infrared Imaging

A new imaging method for breast cancer has been developed by a team of scientists from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine and the departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Physics at Penn State. Their research, utilizing encapsulated fluorescent molecules in calcium phosphate nanoparticles and non-toxic near infrared imaging (NIR), appears in the Sept. 19 on-line issue of ACS Nano.

26 Sep 2008

Discovery Points to New Avenue for Cancer Treatment

Scientists at The Wistar Institute and their colleagues have identified, for the first time, a molecule that can regulate microRNAs - short strands of RNA that play a vital role in gene expression and are closely associa...

26 Sep 2008

New Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry Center Aims to Unravel Molecular Complexities of Biological Systems

Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify and locate the molecules present in the samples.

26 Sep 2008

QualSec’s NanoNose Detects Emerging Global Health Threats

In 1918, a strain of influenza, popularly known as the Spanish flu, ravaged the globe, killing an estimated 2.5% of the world's population. Now, concerns about new pandemics have led the global public health communit...

26 Sep 2008

Engineers Aim to Solve Burning Computer Problem using Nanoelectronics

If you've balanced a laptop computer on your lap lately, you probably noticed a burning sensation. That's because ever-increasing processing speeds are creating more and more heat, which has to go somewhere - in ...

26 Sep 2008

New Research May Be Key Step Towards Real-World Uses of MOFs

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks (MOF). In MOF materials, metal ions can be connected by organic molecules to form scaffold...

26 Sep 2008

Creating Nanoscale Structures that Will Help to Speed Up Computers

Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers.

26 Sep 2008

Directing Visitors and Answering Questions will be the Job for AToM during nanotxUSA'08

In keeping with the theme of this year's event, Accelerating Nanotechnology Commercialization, the duties of greeting visitors and answering questions will be performed by a robot named AToM - short for "Advance...

26 Sep 2008

Report of the 4th NanoRegulation Conference Published

The final report of the 4th NanoRegulation Conference held on from September 16-17 in St.Gallen is now available online on the website of the Innovation Society. The document gives an overview of the presentations, works...

26 Sep 2008

Malvern's Zetasizer APS Measures Nanoparticles in Solution Enabling Accurate Size Determination

Malvern Panalytical has launched the Zetasizer APS, a new dynamic light scattering (DLS) system which automates size measurements of samples in 96- or 384-well microplates. Designed primarily for protein specialists, the new system is fully automated, simply requiring users to insert the plate and press start.

From Malvern Panalytical 25 Sep 2008