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Micromanaging Performance of Materials

Drilling bits in the mining industry and cutting tools for metalworking in the manufacturing industry are often made of hard metal – a material nearly as hard as diamond. Researchers have long tried to control t...

14 Jun 2010

Gold Nanoparticles - Turning a Drawback into an Advantage

MIT researchers have found a way to turn this drawback into an advantage. In a paper recently published in American Chemical Society Nano, Associate Professor Kimberly Hamad-Schifferli of the Departments of Biological Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and postdoc Sunho Park PhD '09 of the Department of Mechanical Engineering reported that they could exploit nanoparticles' stickiness to double the amount of protein produced during in vitro translation - an important tool that biologists use to safely produce a large quantity of protein for study outside of a living cell.

11 Jun 2010

Observation of Shell Effects in Superconducting Nanoparticles of Tin

The loss of electrical resistance of a metal particle is also a matter of its size. A group of researchers has now proven that the temperature below which a material becomes a superconductor can increase dramatically, wh...

11 Jun 2010

Prototypes of New Black Fibre Material

Within the last years, the industry has developed resins with new properties by using nanotechnology. Such resins can be microwave active, meaning, that they can be cured by irradiations of microwaves. Using the new H...

11 Jun 2010

New Underarm Clothing Tag Eliminates Body Odour Using Nanotechnology

New iron-on tags made from controlled carbon material eliminate under arm smells; military-grade nano-porous fibre is breath of fresh air for clothing manufacturers and image-conscious consumers A new under...

11 Jun 2010

Stability of Nanoparticles Change Depending on pH of the Environment

Using a chemical trick that allows them to change the acidity of a solution almost instantly, a team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has demonstrated a simple and effective technique for quantifying how the stability of nanoparticle solutions change when the acidity of their environment suddenly changes.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 10 Jun 2010

New Technique to Form Liposome-Hydrogel Hybrid Nanoscale Vesicles

People have been combining materials to bring forth the best properties of both ever since copper and tin were merged to start the Bronze Age.

From National Institute of Standards and Tech (NIST) 10 Jun 2010

Friction Within Magnetic Nanowires Can Move Domain Walls Faster

After running a series of complex computer simulations, researchers have found that flaws in the structure of magnetic nanoscale wires play an important role in determining the operating speed of novel devices using...

10 Jun 2010

Enable IPC Secures STTR Grant to Study Nano-Based Coating for Li-Ion Batteries

Enable IPC Corporation today announced its subsidiary, SolRayo, Inc., has been awarded a $149,935 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to conduct research into "Using Nanoparticle Oxide Coatings to Increase Cycle Life of Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries."

10 Jun 2010

Plastic Antibodies May Fight A Wide Range of Human Diseases

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that a plastic antibody - an artificial version of the proteins produced by the body's immune system to recognize and fight infections and foreign substances - works in the bloodstream of a living animal.

From American Chemical Society 9 Jun 2010