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Nanotechnology Deskbook Explores the Impact of Law and Regulation on Nanotechnology

Materials manufactured to nanoscale can make microprocessors faster, sunscreen more protective, oil drilling bits harder, and rocket propellant more powerful. Because these nanotechnology products are unprecedented today...

18 Jan 2008

Global Market For Nanoparticles in Electronic, Magnetic and Optoelectronic Applications Tipped to Hit $1.7 Billion by 2012

Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has now added a new report showing that the global market for nanoparticles in electronic, magnetic and optoelectronic applicatio...

18 Jan 2008

Semiconductor Nanowire Photovoltaics Research Collaboration Agreement

Cleanfield Alternative Energy Inc. is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cleanfield Energy Corp, has developed a strategic partnership with McMaster University's Department of Engineering Physics b...

17 Jan 2008

Scalable Low Cost, Nano-based Solar Cell Demonstrated by GE Global Research

GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Company, announced that scientists on their Nano Photovoltaics (PV) team have demonstrated a scalable silicon nanowire-based solar cell, w...

17 Jan 2008

Gold Nanoparticles Shine Brightly in Tumors

Solid gold nanoparticles have long been used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and more recently have shown promise in treating various types of cancer. Now, thanks to work by Shuming Nie, Ph.D., and his colleagues at th...

17 Jan 2008

Nanoparticles Harvest Tumor Biomarkers

The long and challenging effort to find blood-borne markers for cancer and other diseases may soon enter a new realm of success using a new nanoparticle that preferentially and rapidly removes small proteins and other mo...

17 Jan 2008

Tumor-Associated Enzyme Triggers Drug Release From Nanoparticles

Cancer cells display a variety of proteins on their outer membranes that are not present on the surface of normal cells. Although these proteins are likely to be critical to the survival or metastatic spread of cance...

17 Jan 2008

Nanorod-Aptamer Combo Targets Tumors

Aptamers, short stretches of DNA or RNA that can act much like antibodies, have shown promise as targeting agents for selective nanoparticle trafficking to tumors. Their ability to recognize and bind to tumor-specifi...

17 Jan 2008

Polymeric Nanoparticles for Tumor Vaccines

The quest for an effective antitumor vaccine has received a boost from the results of work aimed at developing a nanoparticle that delivers tumor antigens to the immune system cells that trigger antibody production. ...

17 Jan 2008

NanoWire and NanoLayer Growth Tool

Structured Materials Industries is focused on being the leader in Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and related technologiesand announces the delivery of the largest NanoWire and NanoLayer Growth Tool

16 Jan 2008