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ORNL Scientists Receive R+D 100 Awards for Nanotechnology Advancements

R&D Magazine has presented seven R&D 100 Awards to the researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy (DOE), of which some awards were for the advancements in nanotechnology.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 27 Jun 2011

RNCOS Publishes Report on Nanotechnology Market Related to Water Management Systems

Nanotechnology, the platform to improve costs, efficiency, and new functionalities, is an emerging technology to handle water and waste water globally.

24 Jun 2011

Japan-based Research Team Investigates Confined Water Properties within SWCNTs

A research team from Japan has discovered amazing facts regarding the phase behavior of confined water within the carbon nanotubes’cylindrical pores. The discoveries made by the researchers from Nagoya University, Tokyo Metropolitan University, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and Japan Science and Technology Agency are published in the Journal of Chemical Physics by the American Institute of Physics.

24 Jun 2011

Researchers Use Gold Nanoparticles to Diagnose Early-Stage Liver Tumor

A Brown University-led research team has made use of gold nanoparticles coated with a charged polymer ring and an X-ray scatter imaging technology to detect tumor-like masses as smallas 5 mm.

24 Jun 2011

Malvern Zetasizer Nano Particle Characterization System Crucial to Work Carried out at Birck Nanotechnology Center

Researchers at the Birck Nanotechnology Center (BNC) within Purdue University’s unique Discovery Park, are finding the Malvern Panalytical Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system is ideally suited to the center’s interdisciplinary research environment.

From Malvern Panalytical 23 Jun 2011

Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Anodes for Fuel Cells Using Barium Oxide Nanoparticles

The Georgia Tech-led research team has developed a self-cleaning method utilizing barium oxide nanoparticles. The method will enable coal gas to power solid oxide fuel cells directly at low operating temperatures, the minimum level being 750°C.

23 Jun 2011

Nano-Sized Polymer Chains Found to React Faster Than Previously Expected

In the past, the reaction time of such nanostructures was thought to be too slow, but a research group at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) under the direction of Dr. Nils Hartmann at the Center for Nanointegration (CeNIDE) has disproven this theory, and their results have been published in the international journal “Angewandte Chemie” (Vol. 123, No. 19).

22 Jun 2011

Keithley Instruments Presents Nanotechnology Webinars on CDs

Keithley Instruments has introduced compact discs (CD) that provide all the information obtained from its nanotechnology-focused webinars and tutorials.

From Tektronix 22 Jun 2011

Researchers Develop Simple Method for Few-Layer Graphene Production

Northern Illinois University researchers have developed an easy technique for manufacturing high volumes of graphene, a well-known carbon nanostructure.

22 Jun 2011

Push to Have Gold Nanoparticles Serve as a Biomedical Testbed

Gold nanoparticles are becoming the … well … gold standard for medical-use nanoparticles. A new paper by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) proposes not only a sort of gold nanoparticle "testbed" to explore how the tiny particles behave in biological systems, but also a paradigm for how to characterize nanoparticle formulations to determine just what you're working with.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 21 Jun 2011