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Forming Lipid Nanotubes Quickly and Easily

Recent findings by medical researchers indicate that naturally occurring nanotubes may serve as tunnels that protect retroviruses and bacteria in transit from diseased to healthy cells - a fact that may explain why vaccines fare poorly against some invaders.

24 Jun 2008

One-Pot Method of Making Hydrogen Storage Material

Chemists in the US have developed a simple reaction to make ammonia borane - a powder more hydrogen-dense than even liquid hydrogen. Their one-pot synthesis of this promising hydrogen storage material is reported in the ...

24 Jun 2008

New Tool Could Help Advance the Field of Nanoparticles-Cell Interactions

Scientists can study the biological impacts of engineered nanomaterials on cells within the body with greater resolution than ever because of a procedure developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge N...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 24 Jun 2008

NanoTracker Allows Users to Trap and Track Particles Down to 30nm

With the NanoTracker, the user can trap and track particles from several µm down to 30nm with the ability to control, manipulate and observe vesicles, endosomes, gene and drug spheres, viruses and bacteria, nanoprobes or -carriers, biomarkers or even whole cells in real time with nanometer precision.

24 Jun 2008

Environmental TEM for Performing Chemical Research at the Atomic Level

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, today announced the release of the Titan 80-300 environmental transmission electron microscope (ETEM).

24 Jun 2008

DARPA Funds Phase III Research Project Led by Argonne National Laboratory

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is providing $1.4 million to a Phase III research project led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to develop high-performance integrate...

From Argonne National Laboratory 23 Jun 2008

Understanding the Nature of Glass

Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility.

23 Jun 2008

Making Nanotube Circuits Commercially Viable

Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today joined with researchers at Stanford University to announce multiple &#39...

21 Jun 2008

Funding Further Development of New Nanoscale Fabrication and Measurement Strategies

U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today announced that the full Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies FY09 Appropriations Bill which includes $1 million for the U...

21 Jun 2008

Professor Achieves Breakthrough in Nanotechnology

A chemistry professor in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and his graduate students have published new results in Nature Nanotechnology showing how they isolated a particular type of carbon nanotube from a sample and manipulated it in a way that could have broad applicability in drug and gene delivery, electronic devices, and nanotechnology research.

21 Jun 2008

Creating X-Rays One Hundred Million Times Brighter

The future of high-intensity x-ray science has never been brighter now that scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have devised a new type of next generation light sources. "Th...

21 Jun 2008

OAI Helping College to Include Nanotechnology in Their Research and Teaching Programs

OAI, a manufacturer of UV exposure equipment for Semiconductor, Microfluidics, and Nano Technology, announces it has won the bid from Trinity College, Ireland for a Nano Imprint Module on OAI's Model 800 Optical Back...

21 Jun 2008

Nano-Proprietary Announces Settlement Agreement

Nano-Proprietary, Inc. announced that it entered into a settlement agreement on June 18, 2008 in connection with its litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The confidential settl...

21 Jun 2008

Supporting Nanotechnology Research and Applications in the Kingdom

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has agreed to become the honorary president of the Saudi Society for Nanotechnology, according to Higher Education Minister Dr Khaled Al Anqari. Inaugurating an internation...

20 Jun 2008

Nanotechnology Making Magical Colors Possible

Normal color, like we know from everyday life, doesn't change its color impression when you look at it from different directions. With the help of nanotechnology researchers at BASF have now managed to develop colors that change its color impression when you look at it from different directions.

20 Jun 2008