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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

Berkeley Scientists Measure Atomic Spin and Move a Step Closer to Quantum Computers and Spintronics

Scientists who dream of shrinking computers to the nanoscale look to atomic spin as one possible building block for both processor and memory, yet setting the spin of an atom, let alone measuring it, has been a challenge...

13 Sep 2007

Handheld, Atomic Emission Detector Developed for Department of Homeland Security to Detect and Identify Radioactive Particles at the Site of Potential Contamination

Brad Jones, a professor of chemistry at Wake Forest University, is leading a team of researchers at four institutions to develop the first handheld, field instrument capable of detecting and identifying radioactive parti...

13 Sep 2007

NASA Develops Computer Chip For Use at Super High Temperatures

NASA researchers have designed and built a new circuit chip that can take the heat like never before. In the past, integrated circuit chips could not withstand more than a few hours of high temperatures before degradi...

13 Sep 2007

Bigger and Badder Bombs, Getting More Bang For Your Buck With Nanotechnology

The Russian military have used nanotechnology in the development of a new successfully tested weapon. The weapon, a bomb containing 7 tons of explosives, has been called the "father of all bombs" and it is repo...

13 Sep 2007

Does Nanotechnology Hold the Key to Environmental Protection?

The pressing urgency to arrest climate change and find workable alternatives to major pollutants has prompted experts to examine the impact of nanotechnology on the environment – does nanotechnology hold the key to envir...

13 Sep 2007

Low Profile Piezo Motor Stages Designed for Fast Sample Positioning

The M-686 low-profile piezo motor stages from Lambda Photometrics are designed for fast sample positioning in applications such as microscopy. This newly designed closed-loop XY stage is equipped with 0.1 µm...

12 Sep 2007

New Method for Safely Depositing Metal Oxide Thin Films on Substrates

University at Buffalo chemists have developed a novel way to grow chemically pure, zinc oxide thin films characterized by dense, bristle-like nanostructures and a new method for depositing them on temperature-sensitive s...

12 Sep 2007

Biological Nanometer Cosmetics Products Released in China After a Year of Scientific Verification, Research and Experiments

China Bionanometer Industries Corporation, a leading company within the bionanometer industry, has recently promoted a new series of biological nanometer cosmetics products named "U-SOGNO" after nearly a year o...

12 Sep 2007

Oxford Instruments and NIL Technology Develop New Etch Processes for Nanoimprint Lithography

Oxford Instruments, the high-technology tools and systems company, and NIL Technology®, the nanotechnology company located in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, have collaborated to develop etch processes targeted specifically...

12 Sep 2007

Cyclone Type Dust Segregation System (DSS) MEMS Flow Sensor

OMRON Corporation has announced the release of a new MEMS flow sensor, the D6F-P. Incorporating a unique cyclone-type Dust Segregation System (DSS), the new flow sensor is ideal for applications which require sensing of ...

12 Sep 2007