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Swedish Nanotechnology Researchers Make Complex Nanostructures With Laser Light

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an ...

29 May 2008

Nanoscience, Neuroscience and Astrophysics Pioneers Win Inaugural Kavli Prize

Seven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar Kavli prizes. The laureates were sele...

29 May 2008

Measuring Technique Details Characteristics of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatments

A measuring procedure developed in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) can help to investigate in some detail the behaviour of magnetic nanoparticles which are used for cancer therapy. Magnetic nanoparticl...

29 May 2008

Smaller and Faster Computers From Carbon Nanoribbons

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which...

29 May 2008

Amyloids Have Have Potential as a Nanomaterials

Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just pathological substances; they have potential as a nanomaterials.

29 May 2008

Nanotechnology and Nanofiber Fabrics Rendering Toxic Chemicals Harmless

Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. Potential applicati...

28 May 2008

Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science

28 May 2008

Superhard Nanocrystalline Iron Also Able to Withstand High Temperatures

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a substance far stronger and harder than conventional iron, and which retains these properties under extremely high temperatures – opening the door to a w...

28 May 2008

Magnetic Nanoparticles Shown to Seek Out and Identify Cancer Cells

Scientists have found that magnetic nanoparticles can be especially helpful in locating cancerous cell clusters during MRI scans. Like teeny guide missiles, the nanoparticles seek out tumor cells and attach themselves to them. Once the nanoparticles bind themselves to these cancer cells, the particles operate like radio transmitters, greatly aiding the MRI's detection capability

28 May 2008

Researchers Create Self Assembled Carbon Nanotubes

Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – which are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possess several unique and very useful properties – have become the choice can...

28 May 2008