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Nanoparticle Coated Fabric Prevents Cold and Flu and Never Needs Washing

Fashion designers and fiber scientists at Cornell have taken "functional clothing" to a whole new level. They have designed a garment that can prevent colds and flu and never needs washing, and another that des...

3 May 2007

New System for Accurately Placing Nanowires on Semiconductor Wafers

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a system for manipulating and precisely positioning individual nanowires on semiconductor wafers. Their technique, described in a rece...

1 May 2007

University of Cincinnati Lead The World in Extremely Long Carbon Nanotube Arrays

University of Cincinnati researchers lead the world in the synthesis of extremely long aligned carbon nanotube arrays; research has implications for medical, aerospace, electronic and other applications. UC engineer...

26 Apr 2007

Water Behaves Like Molasses at The Nanoscale

A Georgia Tech research team has discovered that water exhibits very different properties when it is confined to channels less than two nanometers wide – behaving much like a viscous fluid with a viscosity approach...

26 Apr 2007

mPhase Technology Set to Transform Homeland Security

mPhase Technologies, Inc., today said that the new subsidiary it announced last week, AlwaysReady, Inc. is poised to transform homeland security, among other markets. The combination of the sensitivity of the company&...

From MyPebble 26 Apr 2007

BudgetSensors Introduces AFM Probes with Magnetic Coating

BudgetSensors®, a Bulgarian manufacturer of silicon and silicon nitride probes, as well as AFM accessories for Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM), announces the launch of a new product type - the magnetic AFM probe Multi...

25 Apr 2007

NanoVic Art in Nanotechnology Prizes Awarded at 5th World Conference of Science Journalists

Nanotechnology Victoria will announce the winners of its inaugural prizes for Art in Nanotechnology during the 5th World Conference of Science Journalists on Thursday 19th April at 10:20 am. The prizes were established t...

24 Apr 2007

IBM Use Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Visualise Nanoscale Objects

IBM announced that researchers at its Almaden Research Center have demonstrated magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI ) techniques to visualize nanoscale objects. This technique brings MRI capability to the nanoscale level fo...

24 Apr 2007

Scanning Tunnelling Microscope Used to Show How Molecules Recognise Each Other

A human body has more than 10 to the power of 27 molecules with about one hundred thousand different shapes and functions. Interactions between molecules determine our structure and keep us alive. Researchers at the Max ...

24 Apr 2007

HTIG and University of Pennsylvania Commence Nanotech Collaboration

Headwaters Technology Innovation Group (HTIG) has begun collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania through the Penn Regional Nanotechnology Facility (PRNTF). PRNTF has made available state-of-the-art electron micr...

24 Apr 2007