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DNA Nanotubes Soon Finding Way into Ultra-Tiny Electronic and Biomedical Innovations

Arizona State University researchers Hao Yan and Yan Liu imagine and assemble intricate structures on a scale almost unfathomably small. Their medium is the double-helical DNA molecule, a versatile building material offering near limitless construction potential.

4 Jan 2009

Controlled Drug Delivery System Based on Gold Nanorods that can Cater for Multiple Drugs

Using tiny gold particles and infrared light, MIT
researchers have developed a drug-delivery system that allows multiple drugs
to be released in a controlled fashion.

31 Dec 2008

Discovery Paves the Way for Lower Cost Double Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Northwestern University team develops new method to reliably produce and sort out double-walled carbon nanotubes; discovery could lower the cost of this dynamic material. In recent years, the possible applications for...

29 Dec 2008

Metal Nanoparticles, Sterioids for Solar Cells

Deriving plentiful electricity from sunlight at a modest cost is a challenge with immense implications for energy, technology, and climate policy. A paper in a special energy issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society&...

29 Dec 2008

Standard Researchers Develop New Nanoscale Cancer Detection System for the Human Body

Using the same type of nanotechnology that enables hard drives to read and write data, researchers at Stanford University have developed a system that should be able to detect cancer in the human body. The blood scanner,...

23 Dec 2008

New Market Overview on Applications Nanomaterials

Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com/research/3b4a2b/smart_materials) has announced the addition of the "Smart Materials" report to their offering. Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 2nd Int...

23 Dec 2008

New Generation of Nanoparticles for Molecular Imaging and Tumor Targeting Treatments

Researchers have developed a new generation of microscopic particles for molecular imaging, constituting one of the first promising nanoparticle platforms that may be readily adapted for tumor targeting and treatment in ...

23 Dec 2008

Nanoscientists Demonstrate Breakthrough with Control Growth of Nanowires

Nanoscience researchers at Lund University in Sweden have shown that they can control the growth and crystal structure of nanowires down to the single atom level. How this can be done is described in an article to appear...

23 Dec 2008

ANL Scientists Receive Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

Assistant chemist Yugang Sun and physicist Robin Santra of the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory today received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to recognize their contribution to the advancement of science

23 Dec 2008

New Study Shows Cytotoxicity of Carbon Nanotubes

Owing to the novel properties of carbon nanotubes (CBNs), a series of problems associated with in vitro toxicity assessments of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have appeared in many literatures. In order to properly evaluate ...

22 Dec 2008