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Nanotechnology Featuring Strongly in Vehicle Designs for 50 Years into the Future, Robocar 2057

The Robocar Design Challenge is part of the Design Los Angeles automobile designers’ conference that has evolved into an integral element of the Los Angeles Auto Show. This years entries have strong links to nanote...

16 Oct 2007

NETZSCH Laboratory Mills Turns Attention to Testing

For years, NETZSCH Fine Particle Technology LLC has supplied some of the most accurate and sophisticated nanoparticle mills in the world, and has met the needs of exacting commercial and research customers in electronics...

16 Oct 2007

Measurements of Eectrical Charge in Carbon Nanotubes Could Lead to Ultra Tiny Computers of the Future

IBM scientists have announced that they have measured the distribution of electrical charges in tubes of carbon that measure less than 2 nanometers in diameter, 50,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair. $$IMAG...

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

Nanodiamonds Deliver Chemotherapy Drugs Without the Negative Effects Associated with Current Cancer Drugs

Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds - much like the carbon structure as that of a sparkling 14 karat diamond but on a much smaller scale -- are very effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs...

15 Oct 2007

Is Engineered Nanomaterial Exposure a Myth

Some nanotechnology fanciers suggest that, like proverbial birds of a feather, engineered nanoscale materials will flock - or clump - together. This tendency, they maintain, should reduce or eliminate risks as nanotechno...

12 Oct 2007

MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids New Book Inspiring Children To See That Small Science is Cool

Bourne Research LLC today announced publication of the new book, MEMS and Nanotechnology for Kids. Authored by Marlene Bourne, President & Principal Analyst of Bourne Research, the book gives readers a basic overview...

11 Oct 2007

Packard Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship goes to Rutgers Physicist

Rutgers physicist Emil Yuzbashyan has received a Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, which provides $625,000 in research funding for five years. This marks the first time the Packard Foundation has...

11 Oct 2007

Creating a Modular, Multi-Functional Drug Delivery System that Promises Simultaneously to Enhance the Effectiveness and Reduce Undesirable Side Effects of a Number of Different Drugs

There are two aspects to creating an effective drug: finding a chemical compound that has the desired biological effect and minimal side-effects and then delivering it to the right place in the body for it to do its job....

8 Oct 2007

Nanofabrication Promises to Lead to Novel New Optical Devices

An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties. The new fabrication techni...

8 Oct 2007