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Researchers Combine Antioxidant Biomaterials with Calcium Nanocrystals to Create Bone-Like Material

Connecting the femur to the tibia, the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is one of the most devastating injuries in sports. No other injury has sidelined more athletes for a season or even the rest of a career.

31 Dec 2014

Atomic Steps Can Slow Surface Oxidation of Metal Surfaces

Rust never sleeps. Whether a reference to the 1979 Neil Young album or a product designed to protect metal surfaces, the phrase invokes the idea that corrosion from oxidation -- the more general chemical name for rust and other reactions of metal with oxygen -- is an inevitable, persistent process. But a new Binghamton University study reveals that certain features of metal surfaces can stop the process of oxidation in its tracks.

30 Dec 2014

Motion Detector with Nano-Sized Cantilever May Help Detect Extraterrestrial Life

Looking for life on other planets is not straightforward. It usually relies on chemical detection, which might be limited or even completely irrelevant to alien biology. On the other hand, motion is a trait of all life, and can be used to identify microorganisms without any need of chemical foreknowledge.

30 Dec 2014

EMSL’s HAADF STEM Microscopy Reveals Bacterium and Nearly Nano-Geothite

Daniel Kaplan and Peter Jaffe’s earlier research on uranium contaminated wetlands used EMSL’s helium ion microscopy in the Quiet Wing to image biogenic nano-iron oxides oriented along a root recovered from a wetland plant from the Savannah River Site.

26 Dec 2014

Nano-Cellulose Filters for Removal of Environmentally Hazardous Contaminants from Industrial Effluents

Prototypes of nano-cellulose based filters with high purification capacity towards environmentally hazardous contaminants from industrial effluents eg. process industries, have been developed by researchers at Luleå University of Technology. The research, conducted in collaboration with Imperial College in the UK has reached a breakthrough with the prototypes and they will now be tested on a few industries in Europe.

24 Dec 2014

EPSRC Announces Ten New Projects on Functional Materials Research

Ten new research projects that will advance the UK's manufacturing capability, develop new and exciting functional materials, and accelerate the translation of the science of functional materials through to application were announced today by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).

24 Dec 2014

"Minding the Gap" May Help Create Artificial Electronic Materials One Atomic Layer at a Time

When it comes to engineering single-layer atomic structures, "minding the gap" will help researchers create artificial electronic materials one atomic layer at a time, according to a team of materials scientists.

24 Dec 2014

Bristol Awarded £450,000 to Develop GaN Nano-Engineered Semiconductors

The Universities of Bath, Bristol, Sheffield and Strathclyde and their industrial partners have been given funding to develop the UK into a future hub for the manufacture of advanced semiconductor materials.

23 Dec 2014

Physico-Chemical Formulation and Microfluidics Help Develop 3d Metamaterials

Metamaterials have extraordinary properties when it comes to diverting and controlling waves, especially sound and light: for instance, they can make an object invisible, or increase the resolving power of a lens.

23 Dec 2014

Graphene Could Reduce Cost, Complications Involved in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) is one of the most sensitive and informative surface analysis techniques available. However, XPS requires a high vacuum to operate, which makes analyzing materials in liquid and gaseous environments difficult.

23 Dec 2014

Nanothin Semiconductor Layer Provides Ultrathin Coatings in Vivid Colors

In a sub-basement deep below the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering at Harvard University, Mikhail Kats gets dressed. Mesh shoe covers, a face mask, a hair net, a pale gray jumpsuit, knee-high fabric boots, vinyl gloves, safety goggles, and a hood with clasps at the collar--these are not to protect him, Kats explains, but to protect the delicate equipment and materials inside the cleanroom.

23 Dec 2014

Tekmira to Provide TKM-Ebola-Guinea Therapeutic Product for Clinical Studies in Africa

Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a leading developer of RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutics, announced today that the Company has entered into a Manufacturing and Clinical Trial Agreement with the University of Oxford to provide the new TKM-Ebola-Guinea therapeutic product for clinical studies in West Africa. The studies are expected to commence early next year, subject to finalization of a suitable clinical protocol.

23 Dec 2014

Samsung Commences Mass Production of 20nm 8Gb LPDDR4 Mobile DRAM

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it has started mass producing the industry’s first 8 gigabit (Gb), low power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM based on the company’s leading-edge 20-nanometer (nm) process technology. LPDDR memories are the most widely used “working memory” for mobile devices worldwide.

From Samsung Electronics 23 Dec 2014

MRI Probe Pairs Magnetic Nanostructure with Antibody for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

No methods currently exist for the early detection of Alzheimer's disease, which affects one out of nine people over the age of 65. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern University scientists and engineers has developed a noninvasive MRI approach that can detect the disease in a living animal. And it can do so at the earliest stages of the disease, well before typical Alzheimer's symptoms appear.

23 Dec 2014

ZEISS Creates Surgical Microscope with Integrated Intraoperative OCT

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared RESCAN 700 for sale in the United States, bringing to U.S. ophthalmologists an emerging technology that aims to overcome the trouble surgeons may have in seeing certain anatomical details during eye surgery.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 23 Dec 2014

Nanotechnology News

Researchers Combine Antioxidant Biomaterials with Calcium Nanocrystals to Create Bone-Like Material

Atomic Steps Can Slow Surface Oxidation of Metal Surfaces

Motion Detector with Nano-Sized Cantilever May Help Detect Extraterrestrial Life

EMSL’s HAADF STEM Microscopy Reveals Bacterium and Nearly Nano-Geothite

Nano-Cellulose Filters for Removal of Environmentally Hazardous Contaminants from Industrial Effluents

EPSRC Announces Ten New Projects on Functional Materials Research

"Minding the Gap" May Help Create Artificial Electronic Materials One Atomic Layer at a Time

Bristol Awarded £450,000 to Develop GaN Nano-Engineered Semiconductors

Physico-Chemical Formulation and Microfluidics Help Develop 3d Metamaterials

Graphene Could Reduce Cost, Complications Involved in X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

Nanothin Semiconductor Layer Provides Ultrathin Coatings in Vivid Colors

Tekmira to Provide TKM-Ebola-Guinea Therapeutic Product for Clinical Studies in Africa

Samsung Commences Mass Production of 20nm 8Gb LPDDR4 Mobile DRAM

MRI Probe Pairs Magnetic Nanostructure with Antibody for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease

ZEISS Creates Surgical Microscope with Integrated Intraoperative OCT

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