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Calls for More Resaerch into Potential Risks of Nanotechnology

The Council for Science and Technology—the British government’s top-level advisory body on science and technology issues—criticized the slow progress being made in providing needed support for focused r...

29 Mar 2007

Never-Before-Seen Configurations of Metal Crystals

Appropriating cellulose fibers from cotton and crystallizing them, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have grown never-before-seen configurations of metal crystals that show promise as components in bios...

29 Mar 2007

Iron Containing Nanoparticles Found to be Toxic to Nerve Cells

Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered that iron-containing nanoparticles being tested for use in several biomedical applications can be toxic to nerve cells and interfere with the formation of their signal-transmit...

29 Mar 2007

Teaching Nanoscience to the Blind

At the root of scientific study are observations made with the eyes; yet in nanoscience, our eyes fail us. The smallest object we can see still looms thousands of times larger than a typical nano-sized structure. Eve...

29 Mar 2007

Copper Nanoparticles Provide More Efficient Catalysts for Improving Performance of Fuel Cells

X-ray studies at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are pointing the way to less costly and more efficient catalysts for improving the performance of fuel cells. The studies, which w...

29 Mar 2007

Perfluorocarbon Nanoparticles Used to Label Endothelial Progenitor Cells

To the delight of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, living cells gobbled up fluorine-laced nanoparticles without needing any coaxing. Then, because of the unusual meal, the cells were ...

29 Mar 2007

Nanocrystal Research May Lead to New Generation of Vaccines

Maren Roman is taking nanocrystal research to a new level that may lead to a new generation of vaccines and better computer printer ink. The assistant professor in the wood science and forest products department of t...

29 Mar 2007

Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Exhibit Toxic Effects on Neuronal Cells

29 Mar 2007

New Brochure on Dynamic Light Scattering Available from Viscotek

A new 8-page technical brochure is available from Viscotek - that describes its recently launched second generation Model 802 Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) instrument. For those new to DLS the new brochure provides b...

28 Mar 2007