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Acoustic Tweezers Manipulate Protein Crystals for X-ray Crystallography

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam. This technique will make it possible to collect data on previously intractable samples and will expand the scope of what is now possible with X-ray crystallography.

6 Feb 2015

New York Students Take Part in SUNY Poly CNSE’s NanoCareer Day Program

Supporting Governor Andrew Cuomo’s high-tech educational paradigm for New York’s students, 300 middle and high school students visited SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE) on Thursday, February 5, to take part in an exciting “NanoCareer Day” program.

6 Feb 2015

Scientists Explain Why Lifetime of Polaritons in Lowest Lying Energy State is Longer

Light and matter can be so strongly linked that their characteristics become indistinguishable. These light-matter couplings are referred to as polaritons. Their energy oscillates continuously between both systems, giving rise to attractive new physical phenomena.

6 Feb 2015

Turing Nanostructures May Exist

In the world of single atoms and molecules governed by chaotic fluctuations, is the spontaneous formation of Turing patterns possible - the same ones that are responsible for the irregular yet periodic shapes of the stripes on zebras' bodies? A Polish-Danish team of physicists has for the first time demonstrated that such a process can not only occur, but can also be used for potentially very interesting applications.

6 Feb 2015

STMicroelectronics Reveals its Leadership of Lab4MEMS II Project

STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, has revealed its leadership of Lab4MEMS II, an extension that builds on the continuing success of the existing Lab4MEMS project, announced in April 2013.

From STMicroelectronics 5 Feb 2015

Breakthrough Light Microscopy Method Enables Visualizing Complex Protein Metabolism in Living Systems

Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward visualizing complex protein metabolism in living systems with high resolution and minimum disturbance, a longstanding goal in the scientific community.

5 Feb 2015

Researchers Successfully Treat Brain Cancer in Rats Using Biodegradable Nanoparticles

Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist. New insights into specific gene mutations that arise in this often deadly form of brain cancer have pointed to the potential of gene therapy, but it's very difficult to effectively deliver toxic or missing genes to cancer cells in the brain.

5 Feb 2015

Army Research Office Grant Help UT Arlington to Complete Complex Nano-Scale Research and Manufacturing

A University of Texas at Arlington researcher will use an Army Research Office grant to purchase a micro-optics assembly and characterization system that will usher in more intricate nanoscale-related research and manufacturing in the College of Engineering.

5 Feb 2015

Researchers Develop Anisotropic Hydrogel Using Electrostatic Repulsion Between Nanosheets

The joint research group led by Takuzo Aida, director, Emergent Soft Matter Function Research Group, Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN (also a professor at the School of Engineering, University of Tokyo), Yasuhiro Ishida, leader, Emergent Bioinspired Soft Matter Research Team, RIKEN, and Takayoshi Sasaki, fellow, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS, successfully developed a material that expresses a unique mechanical property by arranging oxide nanosheets, that electrostatically repel each other, in the direction perpendicular to a magnetic field, and by confining a three-dimensional nano-network structure in a water-swollen gel material, hydrogel.

5 Feb 2015

Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Nano-Sized Optical Antenna Capable of Enhancing Spontaneous Light Emission

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a nano-sized optical antenna that can greatly enhance the spontaneous emission of light from atoms, molecules and semiconductor quantum dots. This advance opens the door to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that can replace lasers for short-range optical communications, including optical interconnects for microchips, plus a host of other potential applications.

4 Feb 2015

UT Austin Researchers Create First Transistors Made of Silicene

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world’s thinnest silicon material. Their research holds the promise of building dramatically faster, smaller and more efficient computer chips.

4 Feb 2015

Scientists Develop Ultrathin Magnetic Sensor with Extraordinary Mechanical Robustness

Scientists from Germany and Japan have developed a new magnetic sensor, which is thin, robust and pliable enough to be smoothly adapted to human skin, even to the most flexible part of the human palm. This is feeding the vision to equip humans with magnetic sense.

4 Feb 2015

Researchers Review Potential of Graphene and Related Materials in Energy Sector

Graphene has many potential applications, among them energy generation, conversion and storage. Graphene – a single layer of carbon atoms – and related two-dimensional crystals combine high electrical conductivity with physical flexibility and a huge surface to weight ratio. Such qualities make them suitable for storing electric charge in batteries and supercapacitors, and as catalysts in solar and fuel-cell electrodes.

4 Feb 2015

Shandong and Rice Universities Celebrate Opening of Joint Center for Carbon Nanomaterials

Scientists from Rice University and Shandong University, China, celebrated the opening of the Joint Center for Carbon Nanomaterials, a collaborative facility to study nanotechnology, on Feb. 1.

4 Feb 2015

Study Helps Control Light at Nanoscale Using Random Crystal Lattice Structures

Researchers from Columbia University, UCLA and other institutions have conducted a study on controlling the light at very small wavelengths of around 500nm, smaller than the wavelength of light itself, using random crystal lattice structures as a means of preventing the diffraction of light. This research could enable precise transfer of information in new optical materials for lasers and light emission, and computer chips, paving the way for advancement in laser collimation field.

From University of California, Los Angeles 4 Feb 2015

Nanotechnology News

Acoustic Tweezers Manipulate Protein Crystals for X-ray Crystallography

New York Students Take Part in SUNY Poly CNSE’s NanoCareer Day Program

Scientists Explain Why Lifetime of Polaritons in Lowest Lying Energy State is Longer

Turing Nanostructures May Exist

STMicroelectronics Reveals its Leadership of Lab4MEMS II Project

Breakthrough Light Microscopy Method Enables Visualizing Complex Protein Metabolism in Living Systems

Researchers Successfully Treat Brain Cancer in Rats Using Biodegradable Nanoparticles

Army Research Office Grant Help UT Arlington to Complete Complex Nano-Scale Research and Manufacturing

Researchers Develop Anisotropic Hydrogel Using Electrostatic Repulsion Between Nanosheets

Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Nano-Sized Optical Antenna Capable of Enhancing Spontaneous Light Emission

UT Austin Researchers Create First Transistors Made of Silicene

Scientists Develop Ultrathin Magnetic Sensor with Extraordinary Mechanical Robustness

Researchers Review Potential of Graphene and Related Materials in Energy Sector

Shandong and Rice Universities Celebrate Opening of Joint Center for Carbon Nanomaterials

Study Helps Control Light at Nanoscale Using Random Crystal Lattice Structures

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