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Global Nanofiber Market to Reach $101.5 Million in 2010

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Nanofibers: Technologies and Developing Markets http://www.reportlinker.com/p096655/Nanofibers-Technologies-and-Developing-Marke...

11 Aug 2010

Sandwiching Nanoparticle Layer Boosts Performance of Organics Electronics

Out of sight is not out of mind for a group of Hong Kong researchers who have demonstrated that burying a layer of silver nanoparticles improves the performance of their organic electronic devices without requiring complex processing.

11 Aug 2010

Researchers Demonstrate Fabrication of Nanomagnetic Mirror

Just as the path of photons of light can be directed by a mirror, atoms possessing a magnetic moment can be controlled using a magnetic mirror. Research reported in the Journal of Applied Physics investigates the feasibility of using magnetic domain walls to direct and ultimately trap individual atoms in a cloud of ultracold atoms.

11 Aug 2010

Using Microscope, Yale Team Studies Mechanics of Paints

It turns out that watching paint dry might not be as boring as the old adage claims. A team led by Yale University researchers has come up with a new technique to study the mechanics of coatings as they dry and peel, and has discovered that the process is far from mundane.

11 Aug 2010

Researchers Work to Commercialize Nanodiamond Coating for Joint Implant Devices

Total knee and hip joint replacement devices that last a lifetime are closer to reality thanks to recent breakthroughs in Department of Physics laboratories at the University of Alabama at Birmingham involving specialized nanodiamonds a billionth of a meter in size.

11 Aug 2010

Innovative Method Enabling Nanomachines to Release Drugs Inside Living Cancer Cells

Scientists from UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Korea's Yonsei University have developed an innovative method that enables nanomachines to release drugs inside living cancer cells when activated remotely by an oscillating magnetic field.

10 Aug 2010

NanoSteel Unveils New Large Particle Ash Screens

The NanoSteel® Company, a leader in surface coating technologies, announces the launch of the company’s LPA Screen product line which extends SCR catalyst service life through enhanced protection from bed plugging by reliable screening of Large Particle Ash (LPA).

10 Aug 2010

EnSol, University of Leicester to Develop Thin Film Solar Cell Technology

An international team of scientists and industrialists is to meet at the University of Leicester to develop of a revolutionary new technique for harnessing green energy.

10 Aug 2010

Computing Application to Better Study Nanoscale Properties in Superconductors

Superconducting materials, which transmit power resistance-free, are found to perform optimally when high- and low-charge density varies on the nanoscale level, according to research performed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 10 Aug 2010

Living Cells Made To Fluoresce Using Nanotechnology

Individual molecules and their dynamics can also be made visible in living cells using conventional fluorophores at a resolution of around 20 nanometers. How this is done is being revealed for the first time by researche...

10 Aug 2010