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Laser Beams and Gold Nanorods Combine to Blow Up and Kill Cancer Cells

Researchers have shown how tiny "nanorods" of gold can be triggered by a laser beam to blast holes in the membranes of tumor cells, setting in motion a complex biochemical mechanism that leads to a tumor cell&#...

17 Oct 2007

Piezo Composite Patch Transducer From PI Works as Actuator, Sensor, Energy Source & Storage

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. a leading manufacturer of piezo-based precision motion-control equipment for engineering, nanotechnology, photonics and semiconductor applications introduces the new P-876 line of piezo compo...

16 Oct 2007

High Resolution AFM Imaging of Cataract has Yielded Information on the Single Molecule Level of Disease

At the Institut Curie, Simon Scheuring, beneficiary of the Inserm Avenir program and coordinator of the CNRS/Inserm “Atomic force microscopy (AFM) of proteins in native membranes” team(1), has for the first t...

16 Oct 2007

Laser Light Generated at Record Small Wavelengths

After a successful upgrade, the FLASH facility achieved a world premiere by generating flashes of laser light at the minuscule wavelength of 6.5 nanometres (nm), thereby breaking the world record of 13.5 nm it establishe...

15 Oct 2007

Metamaterial Electromagnetic Wormholes Shown to be Possible

The team of mathematicians that first created the mathematics behind the “invisibility cloak” announced by physicists last October has now shown that the same technology could be used to generate an “el...

15 Oct 2007

Quantum Dot Transistor can Count Individual Photons

A transistor containing quantum dots that can count individual photons (the smallest particles of light) has been designed and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The semiconductor ...

15 Oct 2007

Force and Fluorescence Hybrid Device Measures Nanometer Scale Motion of Biomolecules Caused by Pico-Newton Forces

A hybrid device combining force and fluorescence developed by researchers at the University of Illinois has made possible the accurate detection of nanometer-scale motion of biomolecules caused by pico-newton forces. ...

15 Oct 2007

Semiconductor Material Bends Light in The Opposite Direction From All Naturally Occurring Materials

A Princeton-led research team has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction from all naturally occurring materials. This startl...

15 Oct 2007

Sigma Aldrich Partners With Program to Put Spectroscopy in Schools

The University of Leicester and the East Midlands Region are leading a national programme aimed at providing schools and colleges with hands-on access to state of the art scientific instrumentation in the study of chemis...

From Sigma Aldrich 12 Oct 2007

Sol Gel Inks can be Used to Create 3D Nanoscale Printing

New sol-gel inks developed by researchers at the University of Illinois can be printed into patterns to produce three-dimensional structures of metal oxides with nanoscale features. The ability to directly pattern fun...

12 Oct 2007