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Applied Nanotech Awarded US Army SBIR Contract to Develop Battery Anode Using Nanotechnology

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: APNT) announced that it has been awarded a Phase I contract by the US Army under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a battery anode using a novel sil...

From Nano Magic, LLC. 18 Feb 2010

Size-Controllable Bulky Ligands Stabilize Multiple Bonds of Heavy Elements into Photoactive Materials

Organic compounds containing double or triple bonds can pack a powerful punch. By sharing electrons between atoms through a process called pi conjugation, unsaturated molecules often have exceptional photonic and electro...

18 Feb 2010

Scientists Develop Way to Make Simple Oil Droplets "Smart" Enough to Navigate Through Complex Maze

Call them oil droplets with a brain or even "chemo-rats." Scientists in Illinois have developed a way to make simple oil droplets "smart" enough to navigate through a complex maze almost like a trained lab rat.

18 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Boosting Anti-Cancer Immunotherapy

One of the hallmarks of cancer is that tumors are able to suppress the immune system, preventing the body's own defense system from eliminating the disease, particularly as tumors spread through the body.

18 Feb 2010

Design Considerations for Tumour-Targetting Nanoparticles

One of the challenges of using nanoparticles for imaging tumors during surgery is that there needs to be a tradeoff between the number of nanoparticles that target a tumor and the rapid clearance of any unbound nanoparti...

18 Feb 2010

MRI Contrast Agent and Nanodiamond Dramatically Enhances Signal Intensity

A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a widely used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast. &quo...

18 Feb 2010

Enhanced Photoreception with Nanochip

Rod cells, or rods, are photoreceptor cells in the retina of the eye that can function in less intense light than can the other type of photoreceptor, cone cells. Named for their cylindrical shape, rods are concentrated ...

18 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Treatment Boosts Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

A German team of scientists has developed a technique to treat nanoparticle surfaces. This treatment boosts the efficiency of organic solar cells. Presented in the journal Applied Physics Letters, the work shows how 2% efficiency was obtained by using so-called quantum dots made up of cadmium selenide.

17 Feb 2010

New Approach to Study Atoms on Material Surface

A collaboration between researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Catalysis and scientists at Oxford University has produced a new approach for understanding surfaces, particularly metal oxide surfaces, wid...

17 Feb 2010

Scientists Suggest Nanonets Coated with Silicon Can Help Make Longer-Lasting Lithium-Ion Batteries

A tiny scaffold-like titanium structure of Nanonets coated with silicon particles could pave the way for faster, lighter and longer-lasting Lithium-ion batteries, according to a team of Boston College chemists who develo...

17 Feb 2010