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Using Nanoparticles and Polymers to Differentiate Between Healthy and Cancerous Cells

Using a "chemical nose" array of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a fundamentally new, more effective way to differentiate not only between healthy and cancerous cells but also between metastatic and non-metastatic cancer cells.

22 Jun 2009

Using Nanoparticles as Tracers to Characterize Fractured Rocks

The Stanford Geothermal Program had a noteworthy result this week, having achieved a proof of concept in the use of tiny particles called nanoparticles as tracers to characterize fractured rocks. The result comes from re...

22 Jun 2009

Researchers Examine Whether Gold Nanorods Could Readily Pass from Water to the Marine Food Web

Too tiny to see or touch, manmade nanoparticles are increasingly becoming a by-product of industry and chemical and pharmaceutical technology. But once these super small materials enter the water supply, do they ...

22 Jun 2009

Report Examines Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of the "Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications: Technologies, Players + Opportun...

From Research and Markets 22 Jun 2009

NanoViricides CEO to Speak at NanoBio 2009

NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB) (the "Company"), a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for viral therapy, announced today that its CEO, Dr. Eugene Seymour, has been in...

From NanoViricides, Inc 22 Jun 2009

Global Market for Nanomemory Expects to Reach $15.4 Billion by 2015

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Nanomemory market. Nanomemory is a technology that is capable of providing efficient memory storage solutions for new age devices. The technology is expected ...

From Global Industry Analysts 22 Jun 2009

Professor Receives 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from EPA

Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, the J.C. Warner Professor of the Natural Sciences and University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, will receive the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award from the U.S. Environm...

22 Jun 2009

Views of U.S. Nanoscientists Differ from Those of the General Public

When it comes to regulating nanotechnology - a burgeoning global industry with wide-ranging potential applications - a new study led by professors Dietram Scheufele at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Elizabeth Co...

19 Jun 2009

Producing Nanofibers from Landfill Gas

Catalyx Nanotech, Inc., a spin off from the technology incubator, Catalyx, Inc., announced that their pilot project to convert landfill gas (LFG) to nanofibers has successfully started operating at a closed southern California landfill.

From DFI- Diamon-Fusion International, Inc. 19 Jun 2009

Identifing the Potential Risks of Engineered Nanomaterials

The recent explosion in the development of nanomaterials with enhanced performance characteristics for use in commercial and medical applications has increased the likelihood of people coming into direct contact with the...

19 Jun 2009