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NIST Finds Nanotube Optical Properties Are Better In Longer Nanotubes

If you want to exploit the ability of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to absorb, fluoresce and scatter light, take the advice of a sandlot quarterback and “go long.” In the Aug. 29, 2007, issue of ...

3 Sep 2007

IBM Marks Two Decades In Nanotechnology With More Nanotechnology Breakthroughs

Twenty years after two IBM scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), which opened the world to individual atoms for the first time, scientists and engineers...

3 Sep 2007

Fighting E. Coli With Nanotechnology and Carbon Nanotubes

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical Society (ACS) ...

31 Aug 2007

Carbon Nanotube Spiderman Suit Has Scientists Climbing The Walls To Bring It To Reality

Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Only recently has man come to understand how spiders and geckos effortlessly scuttle up walls and hang from ceilings but it was doubted that this natural form of ad...

29 Aug 2007

Carbon Nanotube and Nanofiber Buckypapers Research Named an Innovative Nanotechnologies of 2007

A remarkable new material that has shown promise in a variety of applications, ranging from lightning strike protection and electromagnetic-interference shielding to the design of next-generation aircraft and computer di...

29 Aug 2007

Nano-Sensor That Indicates Oncoming Asthma Attacks and Helps Monitor Symptoms

A sensor developed at the University of Pittsburgh could strip the element of surprise from some asthma attacks by detecting one before its onset. Fitted in a hand-held device, the tiny sensor provides people who have as...

27 Aug 2007

Nuclear Nanoparticles To Target Tiny Tumours

Rice University chemists have found a way to package some of nature's most powerful radioactive particles inside DNA-sized tubes of pure carbon -- a method they hope to use to target tiny tumors and even lone leukemi...

24 Aug 2007

Moving Beyond Carbon Nanotubes With Metal Oxide Nanotubes

Moving beyond carbon nanotubes, researchers are developing insights into a remarkable class of tubular nanomaterials that can be produced in water with a high degree of control over their diameter and length. Based on me...

24 Aug 2007

Nanotubes Enable New Approach to Cancer Radiotherapy

Radioactive elements, or radionuclides, are well-established anticancer agents whose main limitation is that they kill healthy cells almost as easily as they do tumors. But because nanoparticles can be targeted to tumors...

23 Aug 2007

Applying Nanotechnology to Life Sciences With Zyvex Spinout NanoMed

Zyvex Labs today announced its first company spinout: NanoMed, Inc. The new company was started by Rob Burgess, PhD, former Vice President of Research & Development at Zyvex Instruments, and Gareth Hughes, PhD, forme...

From Zyvex 22 Aug 2007