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Researchers Use Liposomes to Effectively Deliver Powerful Anti-Cancer Compound

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered a way to effectively deliver staurosporine (STS), a powerful anti-cancer compound that has vexed researchers for more than 30 years due to its instability in the blood and toxic nature in both healthy and cancerous cells.

23 Oct 2013

New Approach to Make Cheaper, More Efficient Solar Panels Using Nanotechnology

Photovoltaic devices, which tap the power of the sun and convert it to electricity, offer a green -- and potentially unlimited -- alternative to fossil fuel use. So why haven’t solar technologies been more widely adopted?

23 Oct 2013

Researchers Invent Novel Supercapacitor Design Using Graphene-Coated Porous Silicon

Solar cells that produce electricity 24/7, not just when the sun is shining. Mobile phones with built-in power cells that recharge in seconds and work for weeks between charges.

23 Oct 2013

No More Bibs: Stain Repellent Clothes Using Nanotechnology

Imagine eating dinner without worrying about your children getting dirty, bothering to put a bib on them or even caring about their soup splashing on their brand new clothes.

23 Oct 2013

Thomas Swan Visited by UK Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable

This Monday (21 October 2013), Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. hosted the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, The Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable, at its Consett site in the North East of England.

From Thomas Swan & Co Ltd 22 Oct 2013

Anasys nanoIR Technology Used to Study Photosynthesis

Anasys Instruments reports on EPFL's publication in Plant Cell on the use of nanoIR to look into the process of photosynthesis to shed more light on how plants produce energy.

22 Oct 2013

Researchers Fabricate Thin, Flexible, and Transparent Organic Solar Cells with High Efficiency

Imagine buildings in which the windows allow the sun's light to enter, and at the same time capture the energy from the sun needed to meet all their energy needs. In this seemingly futuristic scenario, the windows become productive solar cells that help us decrease our reliance on fossil fuels and advance towards a greener and cleaner environment.

22 Oct 2013

Nanosight's Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Used to Demonstrate Performance of BD Medical's Silicone Coating

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, has been used to demonstrate the product performance of BD Medical - Pharmaceutical Systems' novel cross-linked silicone coating, BD XSi™, used in BD's prefillable syringe BD Neopak XSi™.

22 Oct 2013

Harvard Research Team Reports Natural Disordered Metamaterial with Astounding Properties

Active camouflage has taken a step forward at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), with a new coating that intrinsically conceals its own temperature to thermal cameras.

22 Oct 2013

Researchers Integrate Atomically Thin Materials to Create p-n Heterojunction Diode

As electronics approach the atomic scale, researchers are increasingly successful at developing atomically thin, virtually two-dimensional materials that could usher in the next generation of computing. Integrating these materials to create necessary circuits, however, has remained a challenge.

22 Oct 2013

NanoViricides Reports FluCide Drug as Safe in Non-GLP Small Animal Toxicology Study

NanoViricides, Inc. (the "Company") reports that its optimized injectable FluCide® drug candidate was found to be well tolerated in a non-GLP small animal safety/toxicology study. This study is an important step in the drug development pathway for FluCide. This study will provide guidance for the IND-enabling GLP safety and toxicology study.

From NanoViricides, Inc 22 Oct 2013

MIT Chemical Engineers Design Nanoparticles to Counter Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

An aggressive form of breast cancer known as “triple negative” is very difficult to treat: Chemotherapy can shrink such tumors for a while, but in many patients they grow back and gain resistance to the original drugs.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 22 Oct 2013

Case Researchers Develop New Technique to Make Nanodiamonds in Ambient Conditions

Instead of having to use tons of crushing force and volcanic heat to forge diamonds, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a way to cheaply make nanodiamonds on a lab bench at atmospheric pressure and near room temperature.

22 Oct 2013

Nanopharmaceutical Drug CRLX101 – A Promising New Cancer Treatment

The nanopharmaceutical drug CRLX101 is showing promise as a potential new treatment for cancers that develop resistance to antiangiogenic drugs and radiation therapy, according to clinical trial results presented here at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, held Oct. 19 – 23.

22 Oct 2013

Researchers Untangle Carbon Nanotubes for Development of New Applications

Researchers have demonstrated how to produce electronic inks for the development of new applications using the 'wonder material', carbon nanotubes.

22 Oct 2013

Nanotechnology News

Researchers Use Liposomes to Effectively Deliver Powerful Anti-Cancer Compound

New Approach to Make Cheaper, More Efficient Solar Panels Using Nanotechnology

Researchers Invent Novel Supercapacitor Design Using Graphene-Coated Porous Silicon

No More Bibs: Stain Repellent Clothes Using Nanotechnology

Thomas Swan Visited by UK Secretary of State for Business Vince Cable

Anasys nanoIR Technology Used to Study Photosynthesis

Researchers Fabricate Thin, Flexible, and Transparent Organic Solar Cells with High Efficiency

Nanosight's Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Used to Demonstrate Performance of BD Medical's Silicone Coating

Harvard Research Team Reports Natural Disordered Metamaterial with Astounding Properties

Researchers Integrate Atomically Thin Materials to Create p-n Heterojunction Diode

NanoViricides Reports FluCide Drug as Safe in Non-GLP Small Animal Toxicology Study

MIT Chemical Engineers Design Nanoparticles to Counter Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Case Researchers Develop New Technique to Make Nanodiamonds in Ambient Conditions

Nanopharmaceutical Drug CRLX101 – A Promising New Cancer Treatment

Researchers Untangle Carbon Nanotubes for Development of New Applications

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