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Fluid Dynamics Works on Nanoscale in Real World

In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be modified to work in the real wor...

27 Feb 2007

NanoDynamics License Biofuels Technology to Global Technex in Australia

NanoDynamics, Inc., a diversified nanotechnology and manufacturing company, today announced the signing of an exclusive license agreement with Global Technex Pty of Brisbane Australia. The agreement is part of a project ...

27 Feb 2007

IMEC Reports Technology to Functionalize Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

IMEC has developed a generic and versatile method to synthesize stable, biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles. By tuning the endgroups, the functionalized nanoparticles can be used for a wide variety of biomedical applica...

From IMEC 27 Feb 2007

Development of Biocompatible Gold and Silver Nanoparticles for Medical Applications

The future of cancer detection and treatment may be in gold nanoparticles - tiny pieces of gold so small they cannot be seen by the naked eye. The potential of gold nanoparticles has been hindered by the difficulty of ma...

27 Feb 2007

Pacific Fuel Cell Announces Opening of Ohio Plant to Produce Fuel Cell Components

Pacific Fuel Cell Corp. has announced the opening of a 24,000 square foot plant in Willoughby, Ohio to produce fuel cell components. Initial production of bipolar plates is scheduled to begin shortly. The first two pr...

27 Feb 2007

Bosch Electronic Battery Sensor in Production

Bosch has started manufacture of the Electronic Battery Sensor (EBS). It can go a long way towards avoiding the most common cause of breakdowns: a flat battery. With its integrated evaluation electronics, the sensor meas...

27 Feb 2007

Microfluidic Chip Solves Biological Mystery

Using a biochemical version of a computer chip, a team led by Johns Hopkins researchers has solved a long-standing mystery related to the mating habits of yeast cells. The findings, described in the Advance Online Pu...

27 Feb 2007

Nanometrics Introduces New System for Critical Dimension, Overlay Metrology

Nanometrics Incorporated has introduced the IVS 185 system, capable of making critical dimension (CD) and overlay measurements using the same metrology recipe while achieving higher productivity. The ultra-low footprint ...

27 Feb 2007

Newbridge Nanotechnology Index Announces Quarterly Rebalance

Newbridge Securities Corporation has announced the quarterly rebalancing and reconstitution of its Newbridge Nanotechnology Index. This quarter saw no additions or deletions among the constituents, leaving the total numb...

27 Feb 2007

Health Care in Developing Countries Could be Greatly Improved by Nanotechnology

"Nanotechnology has the potential to generate enormous health benefits for the more than five billion people living in the developing world," according to Dr. Peter A. Singer, senior scientist at the McLaughlin...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 27 Feb 2007

Chemists Design Unique Structure to Capture the Movement of Atoms

Chemists at the University of Liverpool have designed a unique structure to capture the movement of atoms which may impact on future designs of pharmaceuticals. The research, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sci...

27 Feb 2007

New Technique to Generate Laser-Like X-Ray Beams

A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to generate laser-like X-ray beams, removing a major obstacle in the decades-long quest to build a tabletop X-ray laser that co...

27 Feb 2007

Fluid Dynamics Theory Works at the Nanoscale

27 Feb 2007

Quantum Dots Detect Metastatic Lesions

By injecting quantum dots into tumors, investigators at Carnegie Mellon University have been able to image sentinel lymph nodes in animals using near-infrared light. These results could lead to a simple, non-invasive met...

27 Feb 2007

Carbon Nanotubes Deliver siRNA into Human Cells

Short pieces of RNA, known as small interfering RNA (siRNA), have the potential to become a new class of anticancer drugs if researchers can solve the problem of how to deliver these fragile molecules to cancer cells. On...

27 Feb 2007