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Scalable Manufacturing Process to Produce Graphene Directly on Glass Substrates

Graphene's promise as a material for new kinds of electronic devices, among other uses, has led researchers around the world to study the material in search of new applications. But one of the biggest limitations to wider use of the strong, lightweight, highly conductive material has been the hurdle of fabrication on an industrial scale.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 26 May 2014

Optical Antenna-based Platform Technology to Trap and Control Light with Graphene

Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with ICFO and Graphenea, introduce a platform technology based on optical antennas for trapping and controlling light with the one-atom-thick material graphene.

26 May 2014

Improving Drug Delivery with Stimulus-Responsive Nanocarriers and Medical Devices

Cancer therapy drugs tend to achieve limited accumulation and poor penetration in tumours, reducing their effectiveness. For many years, the only methods used to improve drug uptake by tumours have been pharmacological, and these have had limited success.

26 May 2014

Novel Screening Method for Most Aggressive Metastatic Cells Using Innovative Microfluidic Device

Not all cancer cells are created equal – some stay put in the primary tumor, while others move and invade elsewhere. A major goal for cancer research is predicting which cells will metastasize, and why.

26 May 2014

SPTS Technologies Launches Rapier XE System for 300mm Wafer Silicon Etching

SPTS Technologies, a supplier of advanced wafer processing solutions for the global semiconductor industry and related markets, today announced the launch of its Rapier XE system for 300mm wafer silicon etching.

From SPTS Technologies 26 May 2014

Researchers Demonstrate Superiority of AFM Probe Tips Made from Near-Perfect GaN Nanowires

In response to requests from the semiconductor industry,* a team of PML researchers has demonstrated that atomic force microscope (AFM) probe tips made from its near-perfect gallium nitride nanowires are superior in many respects to standard silicon or platinum tips in measurements of critical importance to microchip fabrication, nanobiotechnology, and other endeavors.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 26 May 2014

3D Bioprinting Technology to be Presented at National Symposium of Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

As they continue to spread the word about the revolutionary BiO Assay, joint venture partners Rainbow Coral Corp. and Nano3D Biosciences (n3D) are taking the 3D bioprinting technology international this spring and summer.

23 May 2014

Upconversion Nanoparticle Has Potential to Solve Limitations of Wired Optogenetic Techniques

Yang Xiang, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiology, and Gang Han, PhD, assistant professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, have received a three-year, $900,000 grant from the Human Frontiers Science Program to lead an international team of scientists in the development and implementation of a new optogenetic platform that can remotely activate neurons inside a free-moving organism.

23 May 2014

Gold Nanoshell Probe Enhances Two-Photon Fluorescence Performances of Fluorescent Emitters

Two-photon excitation fluorescence is growing in popularity in the bioimaging field but is limited by fluorophores' extremely low two-photon absorption cross-section. The researcher Dr. Guowei Lu and co-workers from State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics, Department of Physics, Peking University, are endeavoring to develop efficient fluorescent probes with improved two-photon fluorescence (TPF) performance.

23 May 2014

MOF Can Catalyze Reaction to Transform Ethane into Pure Ethanol

This gift from science just keeps on giving. Measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) show why a material already known to be good at separating components of natural gas also can do something trickier: help convert one chemical to another, a process called catalysis.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 23 May 2014

New Microfluidic Chip Produces Magnetized Xenon Gas

A chip-scale device that both produces and detects a specialized gas used in biomedical analysis and medical imaging has been built and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Described in Nature Communications,* the new microfluidic chip produces polarized (or magnetized) xenon gas and then detects even the faintest magnetic signals from the gas.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 23 May 2014

Layered Nanomaterials can be Controlled by Simple Bending

A new remedy has been found to tackle the difficulty of controlling layered nanomaterials. Control can be improved by simply bending the material.

23 May 2014

Researchers Image Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly at Unprecedented Resolution

A pathway to the design of even more effective versions of the powerful anti-cancer drug Taxol has been opened with the most detailed look ever at the assembly and disassembly of microtubules, tiny fibers of tubulin protein that form the cytoskeletons of living cells and play a crucial role in mitosis.

23 May 2014

Nanodiamonds Do Not Last Long

Rice University researchers see nanodiamonds created in coal fade away in seconds

23 May 2014

Researchers Examine Photo-Excited Bare and Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Nanoparticles in Colloidal Solutions

Using a pioneering technique, EPFL scientists have shown how electrons move and get trapped in titanium dioxide, which is used in Grätzel cells, self-cleaning windows and water-purifying technologies.

22 May 2014

Nanotechnology News

Scalable Manufacturing Process to Produce Graphene Directly on Glass Substrates

Optical Antenna-based Platform Technology to Trap and Control Light with Graphene

Improving Drug Delivery with Stimulus-Responsive Nanocarriers and Medical Devices

Novel Screening Method for Most Aggressive Metastatic Cells Using Innovative Microfluidic Device

SPTS Technologies Launches Rapier XE System for 300mm Wafer Silicon Etching

Researchers Demonstrate Superiority of AFM Probe Tips Made from Near-Perfect GaN Nanowires

3D Bioprinting Technology to be Presented at National Symposium of Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine

Upconversion Nanoparticle Has Potential to Solve Limitations of Wired Optogenetic Techniques

Gold Nanoshell Probe Enhances Two-Photon Fluorescence Performances of Fluorescent Emitters

MOF Can Catalyze Reaction to Transform Ethane into Pure Ethanol

New Microfluidic Chip Produces Magnetized Xenon Gas

Layered Nanomaterials can be Controlled by Simple Bending

Researchers Image Microtubule Assembly and Disassembly at Unprecedented Resolution

Nanodiamonds Do Not Last Long

Researchers Examine Photo-Excited Bare and Dye-Sensitized TiO2 Nanoparticles in Colloidal Solutions

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