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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

Single Process Enhances Performance of Thermoelectric Nanowires

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have stated that improved materials for nanowires, as well as better techniques to manufacture them, could lead to development of devices with better efficiency to cool computer chips and would also enable harvesting of heat of exhaust systems in automobiles.

From Sandia National Laboratories 4 Feb 2015

Leading OSAT Facility Acquires Rudolph JetStep® Advanced Packaging Lithography System

Rudolph Technologies, Inc. announced today that it has shipped the JetStep® Advanced Packaging Lithography System to a leading outsourced assembly and test (OSAT) facility. This new customer will use the JetStep W Series for fan-out wafer level packaging (FO-WLP) applications.

From Onto Innovation 3 Feb 2015

Global MEMS Accelerometers Market Forecast to Grow at 6.6% CAGR

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global MEMS Accelerometer Market 2015-2019" report to their offering.

From Research and Markets 3 Feb 2015

Biologically Based "Egg-on-a-Chip"

Lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems have registered tremendous progress over the past 20 years. Myriad "chip" schemes have already emerged, ranging from the lung-on-a-chip and heart-on-a-chip to the liver-on-a-chip and kidney-on-a-chip.

3 Feb 2015

Nanosensor-Based Breathalyzer Screening Technology for Fast and Cheap Disease Detection

A research consortium headed by Professor Hossam Haick of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is developing a product that, when coupled with a smartphone, will be able to screen the user’s breath for early detection of life-threatening diseases.

3 Feb 2015

NSF Awards $1M Grant to ASU NanoSIMS Facility for Research into Earth Sciences

Two secondary ion mass spectrometry laboratories in Arizona State University’s Bateman Physical Science Complex were recognized as hotbeds of scientific research, thanks to the expertise of researchers in ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.

3 Feb 2015

Nanotechnology News

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

Single Process Enhances Performance of Thermoelectric Nanowires

Leading OSAT Facility Acquires Rudolph JetStep® Advanced Packaging Lithography System

Global MEMS Accelerometers Market Forecast to Grow at 6.6% CAGR

Biologically Based "Egg-on-a-Chip"

Nanosensor-Based Breathalyzer Screening Technology for Fast and Cheap Disease Detection

NSF Awards $1M Grant to ASU NanoSIMS Facility for Research into Earth Sciences

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