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Cellulose Nanofibril Aerogel Enables Inexpensive Cleaning up of Oil Spills

Cleaning up oil spills and metal contaminates in a low-impact, sustainable and inexpensive manner remains a challenge for companies and governments globally.

26 Feb 2014

Researchers Successfully Create Subnanoscale Pores in Graphene Sheet

Researchers have devised a way of making tiny holes of controllable size in sheets of graphene, a development that could lead to ultrathin filters for improved desalination or water purification.

26 Feb 2014

Advances in Using Nanoparticles and Magnetism to Treat Cancer

Using tiny particles designed to target cancer-fighting immune cells, Johns Hopkins researchers have trained the immune systems of mice to fight melanoma, a deadly skin cancer.

26 Feb 2014

Light-Induced Electrical Currents Found to Rise More Sharply at Intersection of Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon

Every second, your computer must process billions of computational steps to produce even the simplest outputs.

26 Feb 2014

Global Nanophotonic Devices Market Poised for Significant Growth

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Nanophotonic Devices Market 2012-2016" report to their offering.

26 Feb 2014

Platinum Nanoparticles Maintain Effective Surface Area When Bonded Onto Graphene

Physicists have found that platinum nanoparticles limit their size and organize into specific patterns when bonded to freestanding graphene.

26 Feb 2014

Vistec SB254 System Purchased By Fraunhofer ENAS

Vistec Electron Beam GmbH, a leading supplier of electron-beam lithography systems, announced that Fraunhofer ENAS in Chemnitz has purchased a Variable Shaped Beam system Vistec SB254. The Fraunhofer Institute for Elect...

From Vistec Electron Beam 25 Feb 2014

Integrated 7-Axis MEMS MotionTracking Platform from InvenSense

InvenSense, Inc., the leading provider of MotionTracking™ system on chip (SoC) and Sound devices, introduces the ICM-20728, the world’s first integrated 7-axis (3-axis gyroscope + 3-axis accelerometer + pressure sensor) single chip platform solution with onboard Digital Motion Processor (DMP™).

25 Feb 2014

Marine Sponge Forms Glass Filament with Perfect Periodic Arrangement of Nanopores

Materials made by man and those made by biological organisms often deal with similar synthesis challenges – occasionally converging on an analogous solution independently. One example is the giant glass rod that is used by the sea sponge M. chuni to anchor itself in marine environments.

25 Feb 2014

New Nanoscale Drug-Delivery System to Tackle Aggressive Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer accounts for more deaths of American women than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. According to the American Cancer Society, one in 72 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and one in 100 will ultimately die of the condition.

25 Feb 2014

Epitaxial Mismatches in Ultra-Thin Film Lattices Can Be Used to Tune Energetic Landscape of Mott Materials

"Mottronics" is a term seemingly destined to become familiar to aficionados of electronic gadgets. Named for the Nobel laureate Nevill Francis Mott, Mottronics involve materials – mostly metal oxides - that can be induced to transition between electrically conductive and insulating phases. If these phase transitions can be controlled, Mott materials hold great promise for future transistors and memories that feature higher energy efficiencies and faster switching speeds than today's devices.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 25 Feb 2014

Mimicking Behavior of Cells May Help Make Things Work Using Nanoscale Components

Engineers like to make things that work. And if one wants to make something work using nanoscale components—the size of proteins, antibodies, and viruses—mimicking the behavior of cells is a good place to start since cells carry an enormous amount of information in a very tiny packet. As Erik Winfree, professor of computer science, computation and neutral systems, and bioengineering, explains, "I tend to think of cells as really small robots.

25 Feb 2014

Nanoparticles Arrange into 'Living Rotating Crystals' When Coaxed to Spin

Simply making nanoparticles spin coaxes them to arrange themselves into what University of Michigan researchers call 'living rotating crystals' that could serve as a nanopump. They may also, incidentally, shed light on the origin of life itself.

25 Feb 2014

Video Captures Infection of Cells by Virus-Like Particles

Tiny and swift, viruses are hard to capture on video. Now researchers at Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented look at a virus-like particle as it tries to break into and infect a cell. The technique they developed could help scientists learn more about how to deliver drugs via nanoparticles — which are about the same size as viruses — as well as how to prevent viral infection from occurring.

25 Feb 2014