Many experimental and clinical data have demonstrated that antibiotic-resistance pathogens, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), may play a vital role in priming chronic inflammation. There is thus a great need to develop novel antibacterial materials, and particularly those that are less likely to lead to bacterial resistance.
Building on their creation of the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual molecules, one at a time, a team of Caltech scientists and their colleagues have created nanodevices that can also reveal their shape. Such information is crucial when trying to identify large protein molecules or complex assemblies of protein molecules.
As microchip feature dimensions approach atomic scale, it becomes formidably difficult to measure their size and shape. According to the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, within the next couple of years the typical length of a transistor’s “gate” – its on-off switch – will be less than 20 nanometers (nm, billionths of a meter).
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Gold Nanoparticles, 2010-2025" report to their offering.
A simplified and reliable device developed at EPFL should enable hydrogen production at low cost. Researchers were able to perform water electrolysis without using the expensive membrane placed between the electrodes in conventional systems.
A microscopic tool, more than 1000 times thinner than the width of a single human hair, uses vibrations to simultaneously reveal the mass and the shape of a single molecule - a feat which has not been possible until now.
With some ingenuity and interdisciplinary help, Nick Kaplinsky’s pipe dream became a reality.
For the first time, nanomagnet islands or arrays were arranged into an exotic structure (called “shakti”) that does not directly relate to any known natural material. The shakti artificial spin ice configuration was fabricated and reproduced experimentally.
Nano Zirconia, with zirconium dioxide as key ingredient, constitutes nano composite zirconia after being added with rare-earth elements (primarily yttrium oxide) and other oxides. Nano composite zirconia gets widely used in fields like grinding materials, coating, fuel cell, artificial teeth, automobile exhaust catalyst promoter, etc.
In direct alignment with Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s high-tech public-private partnership model for economic growth in New York State, SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) and SEMATECH today announced that Air Productswill join the joint SUNY Poly CNSE / SEMATECH Advanced Planarization Centerat the Nanotech Complex in Albany.
Scientists at Northwestern University have created the first-ever liquid nanoscale laser that can be tuned in real time to generate multiple colors easily and rapidly. This unique and convenient feature of this laser technology could pave the way for several practical applications including a new “lab on a chip” for medical purposes.
By Stuart Milne
29 Apr 2015
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "The Global Market for Dendrimers, 2010-2025" report to their offering.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) announced a $5 million grant to UMass Medical School for the purchase of a high resolution cryo-electron microscope (cryo-EM), bringing this breakthrough imaging technology to a campus poised to usher in the next generation of drug design and discovery. UMMS and Harvard Medical School have jointly committed operating funds to support the new Titan Krios microscope, which will be the centerpiece of the new cryo-EM research core, located on the UMMS main campus in Worcester.
Unlike scaffold-based methods to engineer human tissues for regenerative medicine applications, an innovative synthetic material with the ability to self-assemble into nanostructures to support tissue growth and ultimately degrade offers a promising new approach to deliver cell and tissue therapies. The unique properties of this biofunctional coating that enable it to stimulate and direct the formation of complex tissues are described in an article in Tissue Engineering, Part A, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Publishers . The article is available free on the Tissue Engineering website.
FEI and the George Washington University (GW) are pleased to announce that they are partnering to install several new high-performance microscopes at GW's Science and Engineering Hall. The new, $275 million, 500,000-square-foot research facility will soon be home to four microscopes from FEI: the Talos™ F200X transmission electron microscope (TEM), Helios NanoLab™ 660 DualBeam, Teneo™ scanning electron microscope (SEM), and CorrSight™ advanced light microscope for correlative light/electron microscopy. These systems will be used by professors and their students for research covering the full spectrum from materials through life sciences.