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NanoFrontiers: Visions for the Future of Nanotechnology

Controlling the properties and behavior of matter at the smallest scale -- in effect, "domesticating atoms" -- can help to overcome some of the world's biggest challenges, concludes a new report on how dive...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 17 Apr 2007

Will Nanotechnology Revolutionize Medicine?

Will nanotechnology revolutionize medicine? Scientists are working now to create novel nanostructures that serve as new kinds of drugs for treating cancer, Parkinson’s and cardiovascular disease; to engineer na...

13 Apr 2007

Advanced Nanotechnology and Energics to Create Integrated Fuel-Borne Catalyst JV

Advanced Nanotechnology Limited today announced that it has executed a Letter of Intent with Energenics Holdings Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based supplier of alternative energy solutions and technologies, to create an integrat...

12 Apr 2007

Fabrication of Nano and Micrometer Scale Biomaterial Structures via Direct Write Technology

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere University of Technology and Nanofoot Finland Oy have developed a direct-write three-dimensional forming method of biomaterials. The methodology enables fabrication of na...

12 Apr 2007

Selective Modification of Nanoscale Rods Using Gold Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology appears to be an unstoppable trend and it requires defined nanoscale building blocks and patterns. “A typical difficulty with the synthesis of nanostructures is the modification of nanoscale objects ...

10 Apr 2007

Carbon Nanotube Pipettes Could Become Key to in-situ DNA Sequencing

Drexel University College of Engineering researchers have successfully developed carbon nanotube-tipped pipettes that could become key to cell biology in-situ DNA sequencing and organelle-targeted drug delivery. Acco...

10 Apr 2007

DC Nanogenerator Fabricated Using an Array of Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Researchers have demonstrated a prototype nanometer-scale generator that produces continuous direct-current electricity by harvesting mechanical energy from such environmental sources as ultrasonic waves, mechanical vibr...

From Nanogen 10 Apr 2007

MicroCHIPS Receives Equity Investment from Leading Pharmaceutical Company

MicroCHIPS, Inc., a developer of innovative drug delivery and biosensing devices, has announced a $13.4 million dollar round of investment funding led by Novartis Venture Fund. Reinhard Ambros, Global Head of Novartis Ve...

4 Apr 2007

Liquid-State-Field-Effect Transistors Promise Improvements for "Lab on a Chip" Devices

Parting a tiny red sea at the University of Cincinnati: Today's - and tomorrow's - sophisticated electronic devices may hinge on our ability to control microdrops of liquid on a surface. This effect, called elect...

4 Apr 2007

Bubble Anomaly for a Hydrophilic Microheater Attributed to Nanobubbles

Using a microscope and some extreme 'snapshot' photography with shutter speeds only a few nanoseconds long, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Cornell University have u...

2 Apr 2007