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Nanopores in Carbon Briquettes Derived from Corn Make Effective Fuel Tanks

Using corncob waste as a starting material, researchers have created carbon briquettes with complex nanopores capable of storing natural gas at an unprecedented density of 180 times their own volume and at one seventh th...

21 Feb 2007

Aphios Awarded Patent for Nanospheres Encapsulating Therapeutic Proteins

Aphios Corporation today announced that it was awarded United States Patent No. 7,147,806 B2 for “Polymer Microspheres/Nanospheres and Encapsulating Therapeutic Proteins Therein.” Biologically adherent po...

21 Feb 2007

Nanotechnology Breakthroughs in Medicine Webcast

What if doctors in Kenya could equip cells of the retina with photoswitches that can be flipped on, essentially making blind nerve cells see and restoring light sensitivity in people with degenerative blindness? What if ...

21 Feb 2007

Hyphenated Systems Announces Microfluidics Joint Development Program with UCSB

Hyphenated Systems, a world-wide provider of hybrid microscopy solutions for three-dimensional (3D) imaging and metrology in micro- and nanotechnology, announced today a joint development program (JDP) with the Universit...

21 Feb 2007

pSivida Announces US$9m Placement

pSivida Limited has announced the private placement, subject to shareholder approval, of 50 million fully paid ordinary shares issued at A$0.23 each to raise A$11.5m (US$9m at current exchange rates) before costs to Aust...

From EyePoint Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 20 Feb 2007

EPA Issues Nanotechnology White Paper

EPA’s Science Policy Council has issued the Nanotechnology White Paper (EPA/100/B-07/001, February 2007). The purpose of the White Paper is to inform EPA management of the science issues and needs associated with n...

20 Feb 2007

ASU Studies Impact of Nanoparticles on Aquatic Organisms

Sun screen - you can't live without it in the Southwest. But the very product that is protecting human skin from harmful solar rays could be wreaking havoc on the environment because of one ingredient. Researchers...

20 Feb 2007

QUT Scientists Develop Ceramic Membranes for Nanofiltration

HIV may one day be able to be filtered from human blood saving the lives of millions of people, thanks to a world-first innovation by Queensland University of Technology scientists. QUT scientists have developed speci...

19 Feb 2007

Xerox, Government of Alberta and NRC National Institute for Nanotechnology Invest $4.5 Million in Nanotechnology

In Canada's first major public-private nanotechnology research partnership, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC), the National Research Council Canada (NRC), the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and...

19 Feb 2007

Precise Control of Water Through a Nanotube Membrane Demonstrated

By fusing wet and dry nanotechnologies, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found a way to control the flow of water through carbon nanotube membranes with an unprecedented level of precision. The resear...

19 Feb 2007

Scientists Use Quantum Dots and Nanoparticles to Improve Identification of Disease Biomarkers

Analyzing human blood for a very low virus concentration or a sample of water for a bioterrorism agent has always been a time-consuming and difficult process. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory ...

19 Feb 2007

Disposable Sensor for Detecting Hazardous Uranium Ions

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simple, disposable sensor for detecting hazardous uranium ions, with sensitivity that rivals the performance of much more sophisticated labor...

19 Feb 2007

50-Atom Thick Porous Membrane

A newly designed porous membrane, so thin it's invisible edge-on, may revolutionize the way doctors and scientists manipulate objects as small as a molecule. The 50-atom thick filter can withstand surprisingly hig...

19 Feb 2007

Quasiparticle Self-Consistent GW Theory

Gold is shiny, diamonds are transparent, and iron is magnetic. Why is that? The answer lies with a material's electronic structure, which determines its electrical, optical, and magnetic properties. Sandia relies...

19 Feb 2007

Effects of Disorder on Electron Spin Dynamics in a Semiconductor Quantum Well

Physicists at JILA are using ultrashort pulses of laser light to reveal precisely why some electrons, like ballet dancers, hold their spin positions better than others - work that may help improve spintronic devices, whi...

19 Feb 2007