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Nano Chemical Systems Files Patent on Nano-Enhanced Material

Nano Chemical Systems has announced that it has filed a US Patent application on a breakthrough new material that exhibits light (luminescent) in the absence of heat. This Nano-enhanced material sets a new standard for h...

30 Jan 2007

Nano Scientists Control Rotation of a Wheel in a Molecule

Researchers at the Centre for Material Development and Structural Studies in Toulouse (CEMES-CNRS) and their colleagues at the Free University of Berlin have, for the first time, managed to control the rotation of a whee...

30 Jan 2007

BioForce Nanosciences Exceeds Goal for Shipping Nano eNabler Printers

BioForce Nanosciences has announced that it exceeded its 2006 goal for shipping up to 20 of its cutting-edge Nano eNabler molecular printers to prestigious institutions across the globe. BioForce exceeded its goal by two...

30 Jan 2007

Sun Powers London Centre of Nanotechnology

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced that the newly opened London Centre of Nanotechnology (LCN) and the Bio-Nano Centre (BNC), funded by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) and London Development Agency (LDA), ...

30 Jan 2007

New Nanotechnology to Examine Single Molecules in Order to Determine Gene Expression

A new nanotechnology that can examine single molecules in order to determine gene expression, paving the way for scientists to more accurately examine single cancer cells, has been developed by an interdisciplinary team ...

30 Jan 2007

Step Toward Molecular Computers

A team of UCLA and California Institute of Technology chemists reports in the Jan. 25 issue of the journal Nature the successful demonstration of a large-scale, "ultra-dense" memory device that stores informati...

30 Jan 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to c...

30 Jan 2007

New Type of Luminescent Nanoparticles

Researchers at UC Davis have created a new type of nanoparticles that could be used in tests for environmental pollution or contamination of food products, and for medical diagnostics. The particles, about 100 to 200 na...

30 Jan 2007

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop DNA Nanotags

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have married bright fluorescent dye molecules with DNA nanostructure templates to make nanosized fluorescent labels that hold considerable promise for studying fundamental chemical a...

30 Jan 2007

MIT Studies Nanostructure of Concrete

While government leaders argue about the practicality of reducing world emissions of carbon dioxide, scientists and engineers are seeking ways to make it happen. One group of engineers at MIT decided to focus its work o...

30 Jan 2007

Buckyballs Ferry Drugs into Cancer Cells Safely

Scientists at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have developed a new type of buckyball nanoparticle that acts as a passkey, allowing peptide-based drugs to enter cancer cells. The new buckyballs, known a...

30 Jan 2007

Nanorods Create Stimulus-Triggered Gene Therapy Device

One approach to developing tumor-specific drug delivery agents is to create nanomaterials that release a therapeutic payload only after reaching their intended target. Researchers at the University of Aarhus, in Denm...

30 Jan 2007

Drug-Delivering Dendrimers Devolve on Demand

Dendrimers, highly branched, spherical polymers, have demonstrated their utility as drug and imaging agent delivery vehicles for use in detecting and treating cancer, with several dendrimer-based agents nearing human...

30 Jan 2007

Designing Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging

Molecular complexes containing the element gadolinium are proven agents for increasing the diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but their use in detecting small tumors is limited by the relatively ...

30 Jan 2007

Revolutionary New Nanotechnology-Based Lithium-Ion Battery

A123Systems, developer of a new generation of Lithium-ion batteries, today unveiled its technology and announced that it is delivering batteries with unprecedented power, safety, and life as compared to conventional Lith...

3 Nov 2005

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Nano Chemical Systems Files Patent on Nano-Enhanced Material

Nano Scientists Control Rotation of a Wheel in a Molecule

BioForce Nanosciences Exceeds Goal for Shipping Nano eNabler Printers

Sun Powers London Centre of Nanotechnology

New Nanotechnology to Examine Single Molecules in Order to Determine Gene Expression

Step Toward Molecular Computers

Coated Nanoparticles Deliver Medications Through Body's Sticky Mucus

New Type of Luminescent Nanoparticles

Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop DNA Nanotags

MIT Studies Nanostructure of Concrete

Buckyballs Ferry Drugs into Cancer Cells Safely

Nanorods Create Stimulus-Triggered Gene Therapy Device

Drug-Delivering Dendrimers Devolve on Demand

Designing Gold Nanoparticles for Cancer Imaging

Revolutionary New Nanotechnology-Based Lithium-Ion Battery

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