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BNC Signs Largest Contract to Date with Major Chemical Company

The specialist product development consultancy, Bio Nano Consulting (BNC) is pleased to announce that it has recently signed its largest contract to date with a major chemical company. BNC has secured this contract as a result of unique intellectual property developed at its partner institutions of Imperial College and the London Centre for Nanotechnology.

From Bio Nano Consulting 27 Jul 2009

Nanodiamond-Insulin Clusters Hold Promise for Wound-Healing Applications

Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting infection...

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Combine Two Nanoparticles in One Tiny Package

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University of Washington have combined two nanoparticles in one tiny package.

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Press on in Their Mission to Power Nanodevices of Tomorrow

Much like humans, materials are capable of some pretty remarkable things when they're placed under pressure. In fact, under the right conditions, materials can even produce electricity. Driven by the vision of ou...

27 Jul 2009

Long-Sought Structure of a Layer of Carbon Buckyballs on a Silver Surface

Scientists at Penn State University, in collaboration with institutes in the US, Finland, Germany and the UK, have figured out the long-sought structure of a layer of C60 - carbon buckyballs - on a silver surface.

27 Jul 2009

Key Step Towards Producing Nanoscale Detectors for Weighing any Single Atom

By studying gold nanoparticles with highly uniform sizes and shapes, scientists now understand how they lose energy, a key step towards producing nanoscale detectors for weighing any single atom. Such ultrasensitive m...

27 Jul 2009

A Step Toward Lithium Fuel Cell Using Recyclable Lithium

Haoshen Zhou the Energy Interface Technology Group, the Energy Technology Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Yonggang Wang have developed a new-type lithium-air cell with large-capacity based on new structure.

27 Jul 2009

Scientist Recognized for Work on Predicting Stability of Nanoparticles in Air and Water

For her work on predicting the stability of nanoparticles in air and water, CSIRO scientist Dr Amanda Barnard has been awarded one of Australia's most prestigious environmental awards - the 2009 Mercedes-Benz Australian Environmental Research Award.

27 Jul 2009

First Direct Observation and Controlled Creation of One- and Two-Dimensional Ripples in Graphene Sheets

UC Riverside's Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau and colleagues now report the first direct observation and controlled creation of one- and two-dimensional ripples in graphene sheets. Using simple thermal manipulation, the researchers produced the ripples, and controlled their orientation, wavelength and amplitude.

26 Jul 2009

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BNC Signs Largest Contract to Date with Major Chemical Company

Nanodiamond-Insulin Clusters Hold Promise for Wound-Healing Applications

Researchers Combine Two Nanoparticles in One Tiny Package

Researchers Press on in Their Mission to Power Nanodevices of Tomorrow

Long-Sought Structure of a Layer of Carbon Buckyballs on a Silver Surface

Key Step Towards Producing Nanoscale Detectors for Weighing any Single Atom

A Step Toward Lithium Fuel Cell Using Recyclable Lithium

Scientist Recognized for Work on Predicting Stability of Nanoparticles in Air and Water

First Direct Observation and Controlled Creation of One- and Two-Dimensional Ripples in Graphene Sheets

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