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Nanotechnology Targeting Ovarian Cancer

Tiny particles carrying a killer gene can effectively suppress ovarian tumor growth in mice, according to a team of researchers from MIT and the Lankenau Institute.

30 Jul 2009

Detecting More Nanoparticles and Speeding Up Acquisition by a Massive Amount

Oxford Instruments' market leading automated feature and particle analysis system is now available with new image acquisition hardware INCAmicsF+ for even faster and more accurate data acquisition.

From Oxford Instruments plc 30 Jul 2009

Research to be Centered at Argonne National Lab in Chicago

Advanced lithium-ion automotive battery producer EnerDel and the Nissan Motor Co. of Japan are teaming up to research a new generation of electrical conductive material intended to reduce cost and improve the performance of electric and hybrid vehicle batteries.

From Argonne National Laboratory 30 Jul 2009

Corning and Soitec Group Announces Agreement on Developing High-Performance Silicon-on-Glass Substrates for Flat Panel Mobile Display Market

Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) and the Soitec Group (Euronext Paris) today announced an agreement to work together on the development of high-performance silicon-on-glass (SiOG) substrates for the flat panel mobile disp...

From The Soitec Group 30 Jul 2009

Treating Advanced Ovarian Cancer with Nanotechnology

Nanoparticle delivery of diphtheria toxin-encoding DNA selectively expressed in ovarian cancer cells reduced the burden of ovarian tumors in mice, and researchers expect this therapy could be tested in humans within 18 to 24 months, according to a report in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

30 Jul 2009

Breaking Planck's Law at the Nanoscale

A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together. Scientists had never been able to confirm, or measure, this breakdown in practice.

30 Jul 2009

Findings Open Door to Improved Microbial Fuel Cell Architecture

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power.

29 Jul 2009

Revision to an Important ASTM Nanotechnology Standard Incorporates a Large-scale Interlaboratory Study

The revised standard, ASTM E2490, Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS), is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E56.02 on Characterization: Physical, Chemical and Toxicological Properties, part of ASTM International Committee E56 on Nanotechnology.

29 Jul 2009

Research into Graphene Nanoribbons Provides New Reasons for Using it as Interconnects In Future Computer Chips

Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, graphene has a current carrying capacity approximately a thousand times greater than copper-while providing improved thermal conductivity.

29 Jul 2009

Rice Scientists Use Nanomaterials To Grow Flying 'Odako' Kites

In a paper published this month in Nano Research, Hauge's Rice University team describes a method for making "odako," bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) named for the traditional Japanese kites they resemble. It may lead to a way to produce meter-long strands of nanotubes, which by themselves are no wider than a piece of DNA.

29 Jul 2009