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UW-Madison Professor's New Technique Ideal for Nanoelectronic Applications

In cold weather, many children can't resist breathing onto a window and writing in the condensation. Now imagine the window as an electronic device platform, the condensation as a special conductive gas, and the l...

20 Oct 2010

Use of Gold Nanoparticles to Create Self-Assembling Crystals

Photonic crystals are exotic materials with the ability to guide light beams through confined spaces and could be vital components of low-power computer chips that use light instead of electricity.

19 Oct 2010

Eni-MIT Alliance Focuses on Developing Nano-Scale Materials to Clean Up Oil Spills

Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Paolo Scaroni, CEO of the Italian energy company Eni, met today at MIT to review the progress of the Eni-MIT Alliance, an ambitious five-year r...

19 Oct 2010

Researchers to Test Nanoparticle-Based Theranostics for Treating Pancreatic Cancer

Researchers from Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), the radiology department at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are preparing to test a combi...

19 Oct 2010

First Time-Resolved Observation of Nanoparticle Growth

For the first time scientists have been able to watch nanoparticles grow from the earliest stages of their formation.

19 Oct 2010

Scientists Discover New Type of Magnetism Among Titanium Atoms

Theoretical work done at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has provided a key to understanding an unexpected magnetism between two dissimilar materials. The results, published in Nature Comm...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 19 Oct 2010

Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society Discusses Implications of Nanotechnology

Georgia Tech researchers are prominently represented in the newly released Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society, published by SAGE Publications, Inc.

19 Oct 2010

Graphene 100 Times Stronger Than Steel

In manufacturing self-lubricating components for the tool and die industry, the SelfLube Company uses graphite as a solid lubricant.

18 Oct 2010

Scientists Image Monopoles Inside Artificial Magnetic Nano-Metamaterial

Scientists have captured the first direct images of magnetic monopoles which were theoretically conceived by the British-Swiss physicist Dirac in the early 1930s who showed that their existence is consistent with the ult...

18 Oct 2010

Polyurethane Nanofoams Double Insulating Performance

Bayer MaterialScience is working on the development of polyurethane nanofoams that could lead to a quantum leap in thermal insulation performance several years down the road.

15 Oct 2010