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Researchers Discover New Class of Edible Nanostructures

Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led a Northwestern University research team to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds ...

3 Sep 2010

Intertek Helps Businesses to Bring Nano-Based Products to the Market

Intertek, the leading provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of industries, expands its portfolio by offering solutions to help businesses bring nanotechnology-based materials and products to the marketp...

3 Sep 2010

Mapping State Lines - Colossal Transition Under the Microscope

When water freezes or boils, its atomic structure undergoes a phase transition in response to temperature change. Phase transitions are common in nature, and have been exploited to make devices such as digital memories. ...

2 Sep 2010

Georgia Tech Scientists Develop New Class of Devices Using Zinc Oxide Nanowires

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new class of electronic logic device in which current is switched by an electric field generated by the application of mechanical strain to zinc oxide nanowires.

2 Sep 2010

New NanoMarkets Report Analyzes Conductive Coatings Market

In its latest report on the conductive coatings market, industry analyst firm NanoMarkets predicts that the worldwide conductive coatings market will be break the $12.0 billion revenue level in 2015. The firm's r...

2 Sep 2010

Two Oxides Show Strong Thermoelectric Properties Despite Being Metallic

Thermoelectric materials convert temperature gradients to electric voltage and vice versa by causing charge carriers to diffuse from hot to cold parts of the material. They are used to power spacecraft, harness waste hea...

1 Sep 2010

Gold Nanoparticles Power Quick and Colorful Method to Detect Protein–DNA Interactions with Nucleotide-Specific Sensitivity

Certain chemical pollutants can imitate hormones produced naturally in the body; bisphenol-A, for example, can mimic estrogen. Because estrogen can pass directly through cell walls to influence the transfer of genetic in...

1 Sep 2010

Nanosize Biological Particles with Potential To Fight Cancer and Other Illnesses

Two new groundbreaking scientific papers by researchers at UC Santa Barbara demonstrate the synthesis of nanosize biological particles with the potential to fight cancer and other illnesses. The studies introduce new app...

31 Aug 2010

Scientists Create First Two-Terminal Memory Chips Using Only Silicon

Rice University scientists have created the first two-terminal memory chips that use only silicon, one of the most common substances on the planet, in a way that should be easily adaptable to nanoelectronic manufacturing techniques and promises to extend the limits of miniaturization subject to Moore's Law.

31 Aug 2010

Using Nanotechnology To Purify Water

By dipping plain cotton cloth in a high-tech broth full of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes, Stanford researchers have developed a new high-speed, low-cost filter that could easily be implemented to purify water in the developing world.

31 Aug 2010