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A*STAR to Showcase Nanoimprint Technology for Construction Industry

Designed for green buildings, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)’s eco-friendly halogen and toxic gas-free flame retardant and fire-proof additive prevents the spread of fire by forming a blan...

17 Sep 2010

Vortex Beams Analyse Materials with Rotating Nanoparticles

Prof. Schattschneider from Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna), together with colleagues from Belgium, is developing a method of producing rotating electron beams and is publishing the technology in the scientific journal "Nature".

17 Sep 2010

Physicists Find Evidence of New State of Matter in Simple Oxide

Symmetry is a fundamental concept in physics. Our ‘standard model’ of particle physics, for example, predicts that matter and anti-matter should have been created in equal amounts at the big bang, yet our exi...

16 Sep 2010

Entangled Frameworks Limber Up

The quest to tune the three-dimensional (3D) molecular frameworks of materials called porous coordination polymers (PCPs) has taken a step forward thanks to a research team led by Ryotaro Matsuda and Susumu Kitagawa at t...

16 Sep 2010

Molecular-Imprint Nanosensor for Ultrasensitive Detection of Proteins

Researchers at Boston College discovered that a cluster of carbon nanotubes coated with a thin layer of protein-recognizing polymer forms a biosensor capable of using electrochemical signals to detect minute amounts of p...

16 Sep 2010

Nano-Sized Vehicle Delivering Chemotherapy Drugs Directly into Cancer Cells

Now, a new way to deliver this life-saving therapy to cancer patients—getting it straight to the source of the disease—has been developed by Dan Peer and Rimona Margalit and their colleagues at Tel Aviv University.

16 Sep 2010

New Method for Predicting How Nanoparticles will Interact with Biological Systems

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a method for predicting the ways that nanoparticles will interact with biological systems – including the human body. Their work could have implications...

16 Sep 2010

Therapeutic Cell Engineering with Surface-Conjugated Synthetic Nanoparticles

Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cell...

16 Sep 2010

Bioorthogonal Chemistry Amplifies Nanoparticle Binding and Enhances Sensitivity of Cell Detection

One of the most promising characteristics of nanoparticles as diagnostic agents is the ability to attach to the nanoparticles surface any of a wide variety of targeting molecules that can increase the distinction between...

16 Sep 2010

Applying BEANs to PCM and Optical Data Storage Technologies

Now an entire new class of phase-change materials has been discovered by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley that could be applied to phase change random access memory (PCM) technologies and possibly optical data storage as well. The new phase-change materials – nanocrystal alloys of a metal and semiconductor – are called “BEANs,” for binary eutectic-alloy nanostructures.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Sep 2010