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Mussel-Inspired Polymer Coating Helps Gold Nanorods Target Cancer Cells

When it comes to sticking power under wet conditions, marine mussels are hard to beat. They can adhere to virtually all inorganic and organic surfaces, sustaining their tenacious bonds in saltwater, including turbulent tidal environments.

18 Feb 2013

Plasmonic Photocathodes Show Promise to Manipulate Light Fields on NanoScale

Free electron lasers (FELs) have proven their worth, but next-generation light sources will have to do better than produce ultrabright x-ray pulses 100 or so times a second. What’s needed is megahertz rep rate, a million times a second. Since it’s electrons that make the x-rays, the only way to achieve that kind of performance is with an electron gun that can deliver tight electron bunches with high charge, high energy, and a very high repetition rate – sources like Berkeley Lab’s futuristic APEX, for which Howard Padmore of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) and his colleagues are designing the photocathodes.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Feb 2013

Northwestern University Biomedical Engineer to Speak at Nanotechnology Town Hall Meeting

Phillip B. Messersmith, a biomedical engineer at Northwestern University who takes inspiration from nature to develop new materials, will be the featured speaker at the University’s nanotechnology town hall meeting Monday, Feb. 18.

16 Feb 2013

NanoBCA Presents Top Emerging Nano Innovator Award to NanoMech

NanoMech Inc. announced today that for the second year in a row the company received the Top Emerging Nano Innovator Award from the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association (NanoBCA), a leading business association dedicated to protecting and promoting the burgeoning nanotechnology industry.

16 Feb 2013

Researchers Demonstrate Printing of Organic Crystal Transistors on Flexible Plastic Sheets

Organic semiconductors hold promise for making low-cost flexible electronics – conceivably video displays that bend like book pages or roll and unroll like posters, or wearable circuitry sewn into uniforms or athletic wear. Researchers have demonstrated the ability to "print" transistors made of organic crystals on flexible plastic sheets, using technology that resembles inkjet or gravure printing.

16 Feb 2013

University at Buffalo Engineers Create Hyperbolic Metamaterial Waveguide

University at Buffalo engineers have created a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that could lead to technological breakthroughs in solar energy, stealth technology and other areas of research.

16 Feb 2013

BladeButter Extends Razor Life Using Nanotechnology

You're in luck because BladeButter has butter in its name and it harnesses nano-technology that extends the life of your razor exponentially.

16 Feb 2013

Researchers Develop Nano-Machines that Recreate Principal Activities of Proteins

Physicists of the University of Vienna together with researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They present the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial protein-mimetic model system, thanks to the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), a high performance computing infrastructure. These "bionic proteins" could play an important role in innovating pharmaceutical research. The results have now been published in the renowned journal "Physical Review Letters".

16 Feb 2013

Northwestern University Researcher Develops Spherical Nucleic Acids Using Nanotechnology

Northwestern University's Chad A. Mirkin, a world-renowned leader in nanotechnology research and its application, has invented and developed a powerful material that could revolutionize biomedicine: spherical nucleic acids (SNAs).

16 Feb 2013

University of Delaware Announces Invited Speakers for Spring Lecture Series

The University of Delaware Department of Materials Science and Engineering has announced invited speakers for its spring lecture series.

16 Feb 2013

Nanomaterials News

Mussel-Inspired Polymer Coating Helps Gold Nanorods Target Cancer Cells

Plasmonic Photocathodes Show Promise to Manipulate Light Fields on NanoScale

Northwestern University Biomedical Engineer to Speak at Nanotechnology Town Hall Meeting

NanoBCA Presents Top Emerging Nano Innovator Award to NanoMech

Researchers Demonstrate Printing of Organic Crystal Transistors on Flexible Plastic Sheets

University at Buffalo Engineers Create Hyperbolic Metamaterial Waveguide

BladeButter Extends Razor Life Using Nanotechnology

Researchers Develop Nano-Machines that Recreate Principal Activities of Proteins

Northwestern University Researcher Develops Spherical Nucleic Acids Using Nanotechnology

University of Delaware Announces Invited Speakers for Spring Lecture Series

Novel Semiconductor Born from Graphene and Glass

Rapid Biomimetic Nanovaccine for Personalized Cancer Therapy

Novel Materials Built to Withstand Extreme Environments

3D SiOx-Embedded Porous Carbon Nanofiber Hosts for Dendrite-Free Lithium Batteries

Biodegradable Polymers for Targeted Body Heating

A Conversation on PiFM and its Role in Nanoscale Chemical Imaging

Conversations on AFM: How AI is Automating Scanning Probe Microscopy

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