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Cenamps Video Shows How Nanotechnology Enabled Materials and Devices Are Set To Make a Better, Safer and Healthier Future For All

Cenamps is an innovative organisation committed to bringing emerging technologies to the general public by commercialising those scientific breakthroughs. Cenamps is working to bring smarter objects, smarter environments...

20 Jun 2007

Nanotube Innovations Amongst Bayer's Showcase for K 2007

From October 24 to 31, 2007, Bayer Material Science will be presenting a large number of innovative developments at the world’s biggest plastics exhibition, K 2007, in Düsseldorf. Covering over 1,000 square me...

20 Jun 2007

World's Smallest Devices Carved With Electron Beam

Physicists at the University of Pennsylvania are using a new technique to craft some of the tiniest metal nanostructures ever created, none larger than 10 nanometers, or 10,000 times smaller than the width of a single hu...

19 Jun 2007

Natural Protein Clean Up of Nanoparticles May Lead To Environmental Remediation

Deep inside a flooded mine in Wisconsin, scientists from several institutions including the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a world in which bacteria e...

19 Jun 2007

Nanoparticle Treatment For Glaucoma May Stop Millions Going Blind

A unique nanoparticle made in a laboratory at the University of Central Florida is proving promising as a drug delivery device for treating glaucoma, an eye disease that can cause blindness and affects millions of people...

19 Jun 2007

Nanotube Based Adhesive Stickier Than A Gecko's Foot

Mimicking the agile gecko, with its uncanny ability to run up walls and across ceilings, has long been a goal of materials scientists. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Akron have take...

19 Jun 2007

Reactivity of Nanosystems at the Atomic Level

Nickel-rhodium nanowires exhibit surprisingly high reactivity towards oxygen. As a result, they offer future development potential for new types of chemical catalysts. These findings were the result of research by an Aus...

18 Jun 2007

Tegal Receive Order for Aluminum Nitride PVD System

Tegal Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems used in the production of integrated circuits, MEMS, and nanotechnology devices, today announced that it has received an order ...

From Collabrx, Inc. 18 Jun 2007

Double Inversion of Emulsions Using Nanoparticles and Surfactants

Oil and water are not miscible. However, it is possible to combine both into an emulsion in which they act as a unit?for example, in creams, body lotion, milk, or mayonnaise. In these substances, one of the two liquids i...

15 Jun 2007

Double-Duty Nanoparticles Overcome Drug Resistance in Tumors

Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy. In fact, research suggests strongly that multidrug resistant cancer cells that remain alive after chemotherapy are responsible for the reappearance of ...

15 Jun 2007