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Strength and Ductility Testing of Materials at the Nanoscale

Strength and Ductility Testing of Materials at the Nanoscale

Materials scientists are studying physical properties like strength and ductility of metals at nanoscale sizes to construct a theoretical model to predict the strength of metals at the nanoscale. Such prediction of different strength regimes of nano-solids is important for future application and engineering design of nanotechnology.

4 Mar 2008

Gold Becomes Magnetic at the Nano Level and May Be Used in Nanocatalysis and as Chemical and Electrical Sensors

Gold Becomes Magnetic at the Nano Level and May Be Used in Nanocatalysis and as Chemical and Electrical Sensors

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that gold can change from nonmagnetic to magnetic and can be both a conductor and an insulator depending on changes at the nano level

4 Mar 2008

Photonic Crystals to be Backbone of the Optical Computers of the Future

Materials known as photonic crystals could form the building blocks of future optical computers and micro-scale communications devices. Scientists have developed a low-cost and versatile way to make photonic crystals, an...

4 Mar 2008

Guinness Book of World Records Acknowledges World's Most Powerful Pulsed Neutron Spallation Source

The Department of Energy's Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most powerful pulsed neutron spallation source. The...

4 Mar 2008

Acquisitions and Innovations Revealed at Pittcon for Agilent

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced it has signed an agreement to acquire TILL Photonics GmbH and has completed the acquisition of Colloidal Dynamics. Both companies will join the recently created Materials Science Solut...

From Agilent Technologies Inc. 4 Mar 2008

Mask Aligner Toolset from SUSS Microtec Brings Boost to Nanotechnology

SUSS MicroTec, supplier of innovative solutions for the 3D, MEMS, Advanced Packaging and Nanotechnology markets, has launched an advanced nanotechnology toolset for its Mask Aligners. The new Nano Imprint Lithography (NI...

4 Mar 2008

New Nanotube Findings Give Boost to Potential Biomedical Applications

Carbon nanotubes have shown real promise as highly accurate vehicles for delivering antitumor agents into malignant cells, but a dearth of data about what happens to the tubes after they discharge their medical payloads ...

4 Mar 2008

Nanotechnology Advances Brain Cancer Detection and Therapy

Brain cancer is one of the most aggressive and lethal of malignancies, made even more difficult to treat by the fact that most anticancer drugs have a hard time even getting to the tumors. Now, studies by three differ...

4 Mar 2008

Targeted Dendrimer Advances in Preclinical Studies

Although a variety of nanoparticles continue to show promise for improving cancer imaging and therapy, regulators and drug developers are concerned that these delivery systems may prove difficult to manufacture on a cons...

4 Mar 2008

Fluorescent Nanoparticles Image Tumor Marker in Animals

Since 2004 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved three new-generation anticancer therapies that target epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), a protein that is greatly overexpressed on certain types of tum...

4 Mar 2008

Microfluidics, Nanoparticles Drive Novel Cancer Detection Schemes

Early detection of tumors is one of the Holy Grails of cancer research, an achievement that would greatly improve cancer therapy and prognosis. Two new reports describe different but promising approaches to solving this ...

4 Mar 2008

Changing the Structure of Gold Nanoclusters and Making Magnetic Gold Nanowires

Changing the Structure of Gold Nanoclusters and Making Magnetic Gold Nanowires

Nanowires of gold have been made magnetic through oxygenation.

4 Mar 2008

World First With Self Organising Carbon Nanotube Composites Suited for Use In High Temperature Electronics

World First With Self Organising Carbon Nanotube Composites Suited for Use In High Temperature Electronics

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the successful formation of a new nano-scale carbon composite featuring a self-organizing structure, by combining carbon nanotubes and graphene which are both nano-scale carbon structures.

3 Mar 2008

Breast Cancer Testing and Diagnosis Using Nanoparticles to Make Tests Easier and Cheaper

Breast Cancer Testing and Diagnosis Using Nanoparticles to Make Tests Easier and Cheaper

A team from UCL has developed a new medical device which will make the early detection of breast cancer more cost effective and easier to administer.

3 Mar 2008

Solid State Lighting Device Based on Quantum Dots Launched

The world’s biggest nanotechnology event saw Nanoco unveil a solid state lighting device based on its cadmium free quantum dots CFQDTM and also showcase latest developments in the area of CIGS nano particles. CIGS ...

3 Mar 2008

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