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New Nanosensor can Detect Food-Based Bacteria Within One Hour

It seems that contamination is the cause of food products being recalled almost every week. A pathogenic strain of E. coli is one of the causes for the contamination.

7 Oct 2016

Scientists Develop World’s Smallest Transistor Using Nanotubes

Reducing the size of components in integrated circuits has been an issue for scientists for over a decade.

7 Oct 2016

Microscopic Water-Based Droplets Designed to Perform Biochemical Experiment

Ultrasonic forces to correctly pattern several microscopic water-based droplets have been used by researchers at the University of Bristol. Each droplet can be designed to conduct a biochemical experiment, which could lead to the development of highly efficient lab-on-a-chip devices that can then be applied in future applications involving clinical diagnostics and drug discovery.

7 Oct 2016

Researchers Document Water Molecular Dipoles Alignment

Researchers from MIPT and teams in Russia and a few other European nations are the first to realize and record the phenomenon of water molecular dipoles alignment. The researchers achieved this by confining water molecules in nanocages inside a beryl crystal.

6 Oct 2016

Behavior of Electrons in Graphene Similar to Light but Much Better

Negative refraction for electrons traveling across a boundary between two regions in a conducting material has been discovered by a team of researchers.

6 Oct 2016

Microencapsulation Mass-Produces Encapsulated, Uniform Particles for Pharmaceuticals

Microencapsulation is widely used in the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, and it is a process where a small particle of one material is enclosed within a shell produced from another. This process can also be used in other areas such as solar power and self-repairing materials.

6 Oct 2016

Bundles of Microtubes Developed by Peptides Convert Thermal Energy into Electrical Energy

Several proteins and peptides can naturally assemble themselves into slender, long fibers known as fibrils and other shapes. Researchers have now discovered a method to harness this feature in order to develop tubular structures of diphenylalanine that are capable of converting thermal energy into electrical energy, also known as a pyroelectric effect.

5 Oct 2016

Imec and Holst Centre Present the World’s Most Energy-Efficient Biomedical Sensor Hub for Wearable Health Applications

World-leading research and development center for nano-electronics and digital technology, imec, and Holst Centre (established by imec and TNO), today announced a new sensor hub integrated as a system-on-chip (SoC) intended for a broad range of wearable health devices and applications.

From IMEC 5 Oct 2016

Graphene-Perovskite Solar Cells Exceed 18% Efficiency

Scientists have created hybrid perovskite-graphene solar cells that show good stability upon exposure to sunlight, while still maintaining efficiency over 18% - the highest reported efficiency of graphene perovskite hybrid solar cells to date.

From Graphenea 5 Oct 2016

PI's New High-Speed, NanoCube 3-Axis Piezo Motion Stage

Higher scanning speed, ceramic-insulated acutators for long life, flexures for friction-free motion, and capactive sensors for sub-nm precise positioning make this new piezo nanopositioner ideal for fast fiber alignment and microscopy applications.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 5 Oct 2016

A "Nano-golf Course" to Precisely Assemble Nanoparticles

EPFL researchers have developed a method to place and position hundreds of thousands of nanoparticles very precisely on a one centimeter square surface.

4 Oct 2016

Merging Nano-mulch with Medicine

How to marry biotechnology, nanoscience and manufacturing while reducing costs and waste is a central theme of the ‘Advances in Biotechnology for Food and Medical Applications’ workshop being held at the Univ...

3 Oct 2016

Anasys Instruments Introduces the nanoIR2-FS High Speed Nanoscale IR Spectroscopy System

Anasys Instruments, the world leader in nanoscale IR spectroscopy, announces its next generation nanoscale IR spectroscopy and chemical imaging system, the nanoIR2-FS™. The nanoIR2-FS, with new FASTSpectra™ technology, sets new standards in measurement speed, resolution, sensitivity, and multi-modal characterization capabilities, while extending its Resonance Enhanced AFM-IR technology to a broader spectroscopic range to provide unrivalled correlation to FTIR at the nanoscale across a wider range of samples.

30 Sep 2016

New Nanosensors for Measuring Enzyme Levels, Help Choose Appropriate Cancer Treatments

An MIT research team has built nanosensors capable of profiling tumors and may help to discover how they will react to certain therapies. The system is designed according to levels of enzymes known as proteases, which cancer cells use to remodel their surroundings.

29 Sep 2016

Scientists Discover Nanoparticle Capable of Killing Cancer Cells

Cornell dots or C dots are nanoparticles that are emerging as promising therapeutic tools to detect and treat cancer.

29 Sep 2016

Nanotechnology News

New Nanosensor can Detect Food-Based Bacteria Within One Hour

Scientists Develop World’s Smallest Transistor Using Nanotubes

Microscopic Water-Based Droplets Designed to Perform Biochemical Experiment

Researchers Document Water Molecular Dipoles Alignment

Behavior of Electrons in Graphene Similar to Light but Much Better

Microencapsulation Mass-Produces Encapsulated, Uniform Particles for Pharmaceuticals

Bundles of Microtubes Developed by Peptides Convert Thermal Energy into Electrical Energy

Imec and Holst Centre Present the World’s Most Energy-Efficient Biomedical Sensor Hub for Wearable Health Applications

Graphene-Perovskite Solar Cells Exceed 18% Efficiency

PI's New High-Speed, NanoCube 3-Axis Piezo Motion Stage

A "Nano-golf Course" to Precisely Assemble Nanoparticles

Merging Nano-mulch with Medicine

Anasys Instruments Introduces the nanoIR2-FS High Speed Nanoscale IR Spectroscopy System

New Nanosensors for Measuring Enzyme Levels, Help Choose Appropriate Cancer Treatments

Scientists Discover Nanoparticle Capable of Killing Cancer Cells

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