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Iowa State Researchers Study Materials, Combustion, Cancer with New 'T-Ray' Instrument

Thomas Chiou explained how the technology would allow Iowa State University researchers to take a close and unique look at materials reliability, biofuels combustion, environmental clean-up, cancer screening, biomass conversion, ionic liquids and many other research areas in science and engineering.

23 Oct 2009

Transformation Demonstrate Novel, Self-Assembling Method for Chemically Creating Nanoscale Structure

A team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has transformed simple nanowires into reconfigurable materials and circuits, demonstrating a novel, self-assembling method for chemically creating nanoscale structures that are not possible to grow or obtain otherwise.

23 Oct 2009

Using Electrical Signal to Control Elastic and Magnetic Properties of Nanomaterial

Researchers from the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, working with American researchers, have succeeded in using an electrical signal to control both the elastic and the magnetic properties of a nanomaterial at a very localized level.

22 Oct 2009

Chemist Successfully Created Metal-Free aNHCs

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have successfully created in the laboratory a class of carbenes, highly reactive molecules, used to make catalysts - substances that facilitate chemical reactions. Until now, chemists believed these carbenes, called "abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes" or aNHCs, were impossible to make.

22 Oct 2009

Discovery Pointing the Way to Enzymes Tailor-Made for Any Application

Perilous and polluting industrial processes can be made safer with enzymes. But only a short range of enzymes have been available for the chemical industry. Recently a group of researchers at The Department of Chemis...

22 Oct 2009

Simple Way to Induce Nanoparticles to Assemble Themselves into Complex Arrays

An important advance towards this goal has been achieved by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) who have found a simple and yet powerfully robust way to induce nanoparticles to assemble themselves into complex arrays.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 22 Oct 2009

Biocompatibility of Nanowires in the Brain

The biological safety of nanotechnology, in other words, how the body reacts to nanoparticles, is a hot topic. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have managed for the first time to carry out successful experiments ...

22 Oct 2009

New Industrial Ink-Jet Technology Enables Low-Resistance Wiring on Various Types of Substrates

Jun Akedo and Akito Endo, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have succeeded in developing a high-speed printing technology that involves laser irradiation during ink-jet printing.

22 Oct 2009

Scientists Introduce Kinks into Arrow-Straight Nanowires

Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions.

21 Oct 2009

Researchers Succeeded in Getting Hold of the Environment of Quantum Particle

Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Nanosciences at Delft University of Technology, have succeeded in getting hold of the environment of a quantum particle. This allows them to exercise greater control over a single e...

20 Oct 2009