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Multi-Functional, NIR Responsive Gold Nanorods for Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapy Drugs

Excitement around the potential for targeted nanoparticles (NPs) that can be controlled by stimulus outside of the body for cancer therapy has been growing over the past few years. More specifically, there has been considerable attention around near-infrared (NIR) light as an ideal method to stimulate nanoparticles from outside the body.

19 Oct 2012

Novel Technique for Growing New Materials from Nanorods

A team of researchers from the University of Florida department of chemistry has developed a new technique for growing new materials from nanorods.

19 Oct 2012

Strange, Wonderful Things Occur in Monolayered Materials

Strange and wonderful things happen in materials just one atom thick.

19 Oct 2012

New Graphene-Cobalt Material Holds Potential to Replace Platinum in Fuel Cells

There's a new contender in the race to find an inexpensive alternative to platinum catalysts for use in hydrogen fuel cells.

18 Oct 2012

German Nanosciences Institute Director to Deliver Keynote Speech at Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum

The director of a nanosciences institute in Dresden, Germany, is the keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Forum Oct. 24 at Vanderbilt University. The Forum and NanoDay! activities are sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE) and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Materials Science.

17 Oct 2012

New Joint Research Deal to Advance Carbon-Based Nanomanufacturing Industry

The nascent industry of carbon-based nanomanufacturing will benefit from a new cooperative venture between scientists at Rice University and its Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.

17 Oct 2012

Critically Needed Chemical Metrology Enabled By AFM-IR

Anasys Instruments reports on joint research with the University of Illinois' Department of Engineering where nanotechnology-based materials identification enables critically needed chemical metrology for nano-manufacturing.

16 Oct 2012

Researchers Explore Interaction of Engineered Nanoparticles with Environment and Live Systems

Our understanding of the creation and use of nanomaterials is growing, but so much about our long-term relationship with their tiny component particles remains little understood.

16 Oct 2012

New Magnetic Nanoparticle-Based Tool to Quantitatively Explore Cell Behavior

Using clusters of tiny magnetic particles about 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have shown that they can manipulate how thousands of cells divide, morph and develop finger-like extensions.

From University of California, Los Angeles 16 Oct 2012

New Carbon Nanotube Straightening Techniques to Fabricate Stronger Composites

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques for stretching carbon nanotubes (CNT) and using them to create carbon composites that can be used as stronger, lighter materials in everything from airplanes to bicycles.

From North Carolina State University 16 Oct 2012