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Magnetic Nanparticles Improve Data Storage

New research led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more thorough understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a magnetic nanoparti...

15 Sep 2007

Detecting and Curing Cancer With Nanoparticles and Nanobiosensors

One of the ultimate goals of medical researchers is to develop a method of curing cancer that is pain free, fast and has no side effects. Developments in the nanotechnology fields of nanobiosensors and nanoparticles may ...

14 Sep 2007

NanoSmart Research and Development Program Authorized by European Commission

Soitec (Euronext Paris), the world's leading supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and other engineered substrates, and the French Agency for Industrial Innovation today announced the European Commission'...

From The Soitec Group 14 Sep 2007

New Scientists to Join Argonne's NanoBio Interfaces Group

Two new scientists have joined the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Elena Rozhkova and Elena Shevchenko are contributing their expertise to the Nano...

From Argonne National Laboratory Center for Nanoscale Materials 14 Sep 2007

Two New Additions For Keithley to Create the Most Advanced and Cost Effective Solution for Semiconductor Parametric Analysis and Testing

Keithley Instruments, Inc., a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, announces two new additions to its Series 2600 SourceMeter(R) Instruments to create the industry's most advanced and cost effective so...

From Tektronix 14 Sep 2007

Writing and Storing Electronic Memory Improved

14 Sep 2007

Imago Announces a Number of Changes

Imago Scientific Instruments, the world’s leading provider of atom probe microscopes, today announced a number of organizational changes. Timothy J. Stultz, Ph.D. has assumed the position of Chairman of the boar...

14 Sep 2007

Sir Fraser Stoddart Webcast - ‘Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology for Tomorrow's World’

The Institute of Nanotechnology is delighted to invite you to a free live webcast of the special guest lecture to be given by the renowned chemist, Professor Sir J Fraser Stoddart on "Chemistry and Molecular Nanotec...

14 Sep 2007

Federal Report on Potential Risks of Nanotechnology Fails to Deliver

Almost a year in the making, a federal plan to prioritize research on the potential environmental, health, and safety (EHS) impacts of nanoscale materials has so many failings that its begs the question as to whether the...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 14 Sep 2007

Groundbreaking Tabletop Microscope to be Exhibited at WIRED’s NextFest

Hitachi High Technologies America, Inc. have announced that the company will exhibit the new TM-1000 Tabletop Microscope at the fourth annual WIRED NextFest™ 2007 event. The TM-1000 will be but one of the many inno...

13 Sep 2007

Patent Issued for Carbon Nanotube Based Transparent Electrodes

Unidym Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Arrowhead Research Corporation, announced today that U.S. Patent No. 7,265,174 has been issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. With respect to transparent conductive f...

13 Sep 2007

Safety of Cosmetics Containing Nanoparticles Questioned at BA Festival of Science

Fears were expressed about the safety of some cosmetics at the BA Festival of Science in York on Wednesday. The products contain buckyballs – carbon molecules known as fullerenes – whose safety in cosmetic...

13 Sep 2007

Science Ethics Code, a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists

Science advisor to the UK government, Dave King, has released his version of a Hippocratic oath for scientists. As part of the BA Festival of Science he has launched the seven point code and would like to see it adopted ...

13 Sep 2007

Taxol Bristle Ball, A Tiny Gold Sphere Loaded With Cancer Killing Drugs

Rice University chemists have discovered a way to load dozens of molecules of the anti-cancer drug paclitaxel onto tiny gold spheres. The result is a tiny ball, many times smaller than a living cell that literally bristl...

13 Sep 2007

DNA Based Nano Sized Assembly

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new method for controlling the self-assembly of nanometer and micrometer-sized particles. The method, based on designed ...

13 Sep 2007