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AKHAN Acquires Rights to Low Temperature Nanocrystalline Diamond Deposition Technology

In a sweeping series of announcements, AKHAN Technologies, Inc., the global leader in diamond semiconductor technology, today announced the acquisition of exclusive licensing rights to breakthrough low temperature diamond deposition technology developed by the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory.

1 Mar 2013

Silver Nanoparticles Found to Be Less Toxic than Soluble Silver Nitrate

For his doctoral dissertation Niskanen has been studying several hybrid nanomaterials, i.e. combinations of synthetic polymers and inorganic (gold, silver and montmorillonite) nanoparticles. He will defend his doctoral t...

1 Mar 2013

Lipid Nanoparticles Act as Ideal Vectors in Gene Therapy

At the Faculty of Pharmacy of the Basque Public University (UPV/EHU) the Pharmacokinetics, Nanotechnology and Gene Therapy research team is using nanotechnology to develop new formulations that can be applied to drugs and gene therapy.Specifically, they are using nanoparticles todesignsystems for delivering genes and drugs; this helps to get the genes and drugs to the point of action so that they can produce the desired effect.

1 Mar 2013

Theranostic Nanoparticles Make Pinpoint Deliveries of Drug Payloads to Breast Cancer Cells

Tiny particles filled with a drug could be a new tool for treating cancer in the future. A new study published by Swedish scientists in Particle & Particle Systems Characterization shows how such nanoparticles can be combined to secure the effective delivery of cancer drugs to tumour cells - and how they can be given properties to make them visible in MR scanners and thus rendered trackable.

1 Mar 2013