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Graphene Could Help Detect Drugs in Body, Improve Airport Security

Wonder material graphene could help detect the presence of drugs or toxins in the body or dramatically improve airport security, University of Manchester researchers have found.

16 Jan 2013

Aethlon Hemopurifier Captures Nanovesicles Underlying Breast Cancer

Aethlon Medical, Inc., today released the following note authored by its Chairman and CEO, Jim Joyce .

16 Jan 2013

Researchers Employ Nanostructured Semiconductor Alloy Crystals to Manipulate Heat

An MIT researcher has developed a technique that provides a new way of manipulating heat, allowing it to be controlled much as light waves can be manipulated by lenses and mirrors.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11 Jan 2013

Novel Carbon Nanotube Fiber Demonstrates Properties of Textile Threads and Metal Wires

Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock. Scientists from Rice, the Dutch firm Teijin Aramid, the U.S. Air Force and Israel's Technion Institute this week unveiled a new carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber that looks and acts like textile thread and conducts electricity and heat like a metal wire. In this week's issue of Science, the researchers describe an industrially scalable process for making the threadlike fibers, which outperform commercially available high-performance materials in a number of ways.

11 Jan 2013

Polymer Film Draws Energy from Water Vapor to Power Nanoelectronic Devices

MIT engineers have created a new polymer film that can generate electricity by drawing on a ubiquitous source: water vapor.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11 Jan 2013

Go Green to Profile Archoil Line of Nano-Engineered Lubricants at NSSF Shot

Go Green Technologies Corp., the wholly-owned operating entity of Go Green Global Technologies Corp. announces participation in the NSSF Shot (SHOOTING, HUNTING, OUTDOOR TRADE SHOW) Show. The NSSF Shot Show is a premier outdoor hunting and shooting sector-related trade show in the United States. The Shot Show 2013 will be held at the Sands Expo Convention Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 15-19. Go Green Technologies will be located at Booth 1961.

11 Jan 2013

Innovative Non-Toxic, Invisible, Nano-Coating Technology

DryWired, a Los Angeles based technology firm and the leading licensee of a revolutionary European protective nano-coating technology launched this week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2013 in Las Vegas, NV. The innovative nano-coating is non-toxic, invisible, and undetectable to touch and allows virtually any coated surface to be resistant to water, corrosion, and the growth of bacteria.

11 Jan 2013

Researchers Develop Nanowires 15 Times Stronger than Steel

The University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) is pioneering research into developing the strongest silica nanofibres in the world.

11 Jan 2013

Researchers Design Multi-Component Nano Molecular Motor

An international team of scientists has taken the next step in creating nanoscale machines by designing a multi-component molecular motor that can be moved clockwise and counterclockwise. Although researchers can rotate or switch individual molecules on and off, the new study is the first to create a stand-alone molecular motor that has multiple parts, said Saw-Wai Hla, an Ohio University professor of physics and astronomy who led the study with Christian Joachim of A*Star in Singapore and CEMES/CNRS in France and Gwenael Rapenne of CEMES/CNRS.

11 Jan 2013

Royal Holloway to Receive Government Funding to Explore ‘Super-Material’ Graphene

Royal Holloway is among a select group of top universities to receive £21.5 million in government funding to explore commercial uses for graphene.

11 Jan 2013

Transmission Electron Microscopy Employed to Study Hole Formation in Biophysical Model of Bacterium

The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has initiated a quest for alternatives to conventional antibiotics. One potential alternative is PlyC, a potent enzyme that kills the bacteria that causes strep throat and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. PlyC operates by locking onto the surface of a bacteria cell and chewing a hole in the cell wall large enough for the bacteria’s inner membrane to protrude from the cell, ultimately causing the cell to burst and die.

11 Jan 2013

New Book on Dendrimers, Dendrons and Dendritic Polymers

With applications spanning from non-shrink dental fillings to DNA-drugs the so-called dendrimers are a near magical material. Now a chemist from the University of Copenhagen has vowed to make the weird molecules famous.

11 Jan 2013

Complex Nanomachine Mimics How Molecules Are Made in Nature

An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that mimics how molecules are made in nature.

11 Jan 2013

MIT Researchers Develop Chips that can Steer Beams of Light

If you want to create a moving light source, you have a few possibilities. One is to mount a light emitter in some kind of mechanical housing — the approach used in, say, theatrical spotlights, which stagehands swivel and tilt to track performers.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 10 Jan 2013

Predator-Prey Biochemical Oscillators May Become Building Blocks for Molecular Machines

Scientists are reporting development of chemical modules that can reproduce, on an “unprecedented” molecular level, changes and interactions that occur in natural populations of plants and animals, including those of hunting and being hunted for food, conducting mutually beneficial relationships and competing for resources.

From American Chemical Society 10 Jan 2013

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Graphene Could Help Detect Drugs in Body, Improve Airport Security

Aethlon Hemopurifier Captures Nanovesicles Underlying Breast Cancer

Researchers Employ Nanostructured Semiconductor Alloy Crystals to Manipulate Heat

Novel Carbon Nanotube Fiber Demonstrates Properties of Textile Threads and Metal Wires

Polymer Film Draws Energy from Water Vapor to Power Nanoelectronic Devices

Go Green to Profile Archoil Line of Nano-Engineered Lubricants at NSSF Shot

Innovative Non-Toxic, Invisible, Nano-Coating Technology

Researchers Develop Nanowires 15 Times Stronger than Steel

Researchers Design Multi-Component Nano Molecular Motor

Royal Holloway to Receive Government Funding to Explore ‘Super-Material’ Graphene

Transmission Electron Microscopy Employed to Study Hole Formation in Biophysical Model of Bacterium

New Book on Dendrimers, Dendrons and Dendritic Polymers

Complex Nanomachine Mimics How Molecules Are Made in Nature

MIT Researchers Develop Chips that can Steer Beams of Light

Predator-Prey Biochemical Oscillators May Become Building Blocks for Molecular Machines

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