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Nanotechnology Likely To Have Greater Impact on Construction Industry

Bricks, blocks, and steel I-beams - step aside. A new genre of construction materials, made from stuff barely 1/50,000th the width of a human hair, is about to debut in the building of homes, offices, bridges, and other structures.

28 Jul 2010

SurModics Partners with EGEN for Controlled Release of siRNA Nanocomplexes

SurModics, Inc. (Nasdaq: SRDX), a leading provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry and EGEN, Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company focused on developing nuclei...

28 Jul 2010

Scientists Pack Cisplatin into Nanoparticles for Use as Chemotherapy Drug

One of the first chemotherapy drugs given to patients diagnosed with cancer — especially lung, ovarian or breast cancer — is cisplatin, a platinum-containing compound that gums up tumor cells’ DNA. Cisplatin does a good job of killing those tumor cells, but it can also seriously damage the kidneys, which receive high doses of cisplatin because they filter the blood.

28 Jul 2010

Researchers Invent New Flexible, Lightweight, Impact-Resistant Composite Material

Not quite body armour made out of cornstarch but scientists from Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s (A*STAR) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and the National University o...

28 Jul 2010

Air Products Unveils New Etching Gas for MEMS Market

Air Products (NYSE: APD) today announced the addition of xenon difluoride (XeF2) to its portfolio of electronic materials. XeF2 is used as an etching gas, primarily in the Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) market. ...

28 Jul 2010

Controlling Nanoscale Paths Help to Create Cheaper Electronics

Imagine building cheaper electronics on a variety of substrates -- materials like plastic, paper, or fabric. Researchers at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University have made a discovery that opens this door, allow...

28 Jul 2010

Five Companies Receive Grant to Commercialize Nanomaterials for Energy Applications

The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center recently announced that it has provided $450,000 in funding to five companies located throughout the state of Pennsylvania in its seventh round of awards. This r...

28 Jul 2010

UW Researchers Develop New Nanoparticle to Solve Medical Imaging Problem

Spotting a single cancerous cell that has broken free from a tumor and is traveling through the bloodstream to colonize a new organ might seem like finding a needle in a haystack. But a new imaging technique from the University of Washington is a first step toward making this possible.

28 Jul 2010

Engineers Use Nanotechnology to Develop Coatings for Nuclear Reactors

Researchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces facing the plasma inside a thermonuclear fusion reactor, part of work aimed at developing coatings capable of withstanding the grueling conditions inside the reactors.

28 Jul 2010

New Laser-Activated Carbon Nanoparticle System for Intracellular Drug Delivery

Using chemical "nanoblasts" that punch tiny holes in the protective membranes of cells, researchers have demonstrated a new technique for getting therapeutic small molecules, proteins and DNA directly into living cells.

28 Jul 2010