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Changing the Structure of Gold Nanoclusters and Making Magnetic Gold Nanowires

News - 4 Mar 2008

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have made two important findings regarding gold on the nanoscale. They found that applying an electrical field on a surface-supported gold nanocluster...

Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program to Give Grants for Nanotechnology Development for the Environment and Health

News - 29 Jan 2008

Americans are famous for building big: the tallest sky scraper, the biggest jet, the widest plasma TV screen. But now U.S. entrepreneurs are considering thinking small. Nanotechnology uses particles...

Novel Uranium Based Hydrocarbon Molecule Created

News - 14 Nov 2007

Chemists at the University of Virginia have prepared the first uranium methylidyne molecule ever reported, despite the reactivity of uranium atoms with other molecules. This new molecule is a...

Niobium and Tantalum Differences May Lead to More Optimized Electronic Materials and Photocatalysts

News - 23 Oct 2007

Unexpected differences recently discovered between the elements niobium and tantalum may lead to more optimized electronic materials and photocatalysts. Sandia researcher May Nyman and colleagues...

Titanium Oxide Nanotubes and Nanorods Being Made in New Ways for Applications Like Sunscreens and Catalysts

News - 11 Sep 2007

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed new ways to make or modify nanorods and nanotubes of titanium oxide, a material used in a variety of...

Scientists Develop New Nanolithography Technique For Drawing Nanosized Features

News - 11 Sep 2007

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used in a range of environments including air (outside...

IBM Marks Two Decades In Nanotechnology With More Nanotechnology Breakthroughs

News - 3 Sep 2007

Twenty years after two IBM scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), which opened the world to individual atoms for the first time,...

Hydrogen Storage Materials Focus of New Sandia Project

News - 28 Aug 2007

Sandia researchers have spent a good deal of time in recent years examining the viability of hydrogen storage materials through the Department of Energy (DOE) Metal Hydride Center of Excellence (which...

NanoTX’07 Pioneers with Environmental, Health and Safety Summit

News - 1 Aug 2007

Experts in workplace protection and nanoparticle monitoring from around the country will come together with business leaders at the nanoTX’07 Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Summit to...

Nanotechnology Set To Bring Huge Boost To Canadian Business

News - 20 Jun 2007

The Canadian Institute of Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) has just released an important new document discussing a policy framework for nanotechnology in Canada. Nanotechnology is the...