Global gold nanoparticles market is expected to reach USD 4.86 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Medical & dentistry was the largest end-use segment for the gold nanoparticles and accounted for over 50% of total demand in 2013.
MagForce AG (Frankfurt, Entry Standard, XETRA: MF6, ISIN: DE000A0HGQF5), a leading medical device company in the field of nanomedicine focused on oncology, together with its subsidiary MagForce USA, Inc. today announced that an in-person meeting was held with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health to discuss FDA's response to MagForce's NanoTherm(TM) Prostate Cancer Therapy Pre-Submission of November, 2014.
Will it be possible one day to reconfigure electronic microchips however we want, even when they are in use? A recent discovery by a team at EPFL suggests as much. The researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to create conductive pathways several atoms wide in a material, to move them around at will and even to make them disappear. Their research is the subject of a recent article appearing in Nature Nanotechnology.
Chemists at the Nagoya University in Japan have synthesized novel cycloparaphenylene (CPP) chromium complexes and have shown the possibility of using them for obtaining monofunctionalized CPPs, which could help construct nanocarbons with unprecedented structures.
Nature packs away carbon in chalk, shells and rocks made by marine organisms that crystallize calcium carbonate. Now, research suggests that the soft, organic scaffolds in which such crystals form guide crystallization by soaking up the calcium like an "ion sponge," according to new work in Nature Materials. Understanding the process better may help researchers develop advanced materials for energy and environmental uses, such as for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Therapeutic oligonucleotide analogs represent a new and promising family of drugs that act on nucleic acid targets such as RNA or DNA; however, their effectiveness has been limited due to difficulty crossing the cell membrane.
Joshua Zide, associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Delaware, has won the 2014 Peter Mark Memorial Award from AVS, an interdisciplinary society for materials, interface and processing technology.
Aehr Test Systems, a worldwide supplier of semiconductor test and burn-in equipment, today announced a purchase order from a leading IC manufacturer for a custom FOX Multi-Wafer Test System WaferPakTM Contactor and evaluation activities that will enable the manufacturer to qualify Aehr Test's next-generation FOX-XP multi-wafer system and FOX WaferPakTM Contactor for production test and burn-in of its devices.
Researchers belonging to the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of California, Berkeley have demonstrated a new method for changing the quantity of electrons that exist in a particular region within a graphene piece. Using graphene, the team has provided a proof-of-principle for producing the basic building blocks of semiconductor devices.
By Stuart Milne
27 Jan 2015
John D. Fortner, PhD, the I-CARES Career Development Assistant Professor of energy, environmental & chemical engineering, will study new composite materials for advanced water treatment with a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
As nanomachine design rapidly advances, researchers are moving from wondering if the nanomachine works to how long it will work. This is an especially important question as there are so many potential applications, for instance, for medical uses, including drug delivery, early diagnosis, disease monitoring, instrumentation, and surgery.
Three of the four most fatal cancers are caused by a protein known as Ras; either because it mutates or simply because it ends up in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ras has proven an elusive target for scientist trying to cure the deadly diseases. Now a group from the Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen have discovered an unknown way for RAS to find its proper place in the cell. Their discovery may lead to completely novel approaches to curing cancer.
A study led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) found that attaching chemotherapy drug Epirubicin to nanodiamonds effectively eliminates chemoresistant cancer stem cells. The findings were first published online in ACS Nano, the official journal of the American Chemical Society, in December 2014.
Industrial Nanotech, Inc., an emerging global leader in nanotechnology based energy saving solutions, today announced that the Company’s patented thermal insulation and protective coatings are now being used as an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) upgrade application on new textile machinery.
Theoretical physicists at Rice University are living on the edge as they study the astounding properties of graphene. In a new study, they figure out how researchers can fracture graphene nanoribbons to get the edges they need for applications.