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Step forward for nanotechnology: Controlled movement of molecules
Scientists in the United Kingdom are reporting an advance toward overcoming one of the key challenges in nanotechnology: Getting molecules to move quickly in a desired direction without help from outside forces.   view more (2009-10-01)

Materials Today, May 2003
-------------------------- This month's features -------------------------- The fabrication of materials and devices on the nanoscale may require a new approach"¦ * Shuguang Zhang of MIT is following nature's example and building materials from the bottom up. * Materials Today investigates the latest developments in extreme UV lithography and... view more... (2003-04-23)

NYU researchers create method to precisely glue particles together on the micro- and nano-scale
Researchers at New York University have created a method to precisely bind nano- and micrometer-sized particles together into larger-scale structures with useful materials properties.   view more (2009-06-15)

Gold Nanoparticles Emit Intense Heat, Study Finds
Nanoparticles of gold can act as tiny, precise and powerful heaters, which potentially could be used in biomedical applications, according to a new study.   view more (2006-03-31)

NC State breakthrough results in super-hard nanocrystalline iron that can take the heat
Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a substance far stronger and harder than conventional iron, and which retains these properties under extremely high temperatures - opening the door to a wide variety of potential applications, such as engine components that are exposed to high stress and high temperatures.   view more (2008-05-28)

Toward a quantum computer, one dot at a time
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed a way to create semiconductor islands smaller than 10 nanometers in scale, known as quantum dots.   view more (2006-01-20)

Clean Power For The Future
Two scientists from the University of Surrey's Materials Chemistry Group within the School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, has been awarded almost £250,000 to further their research into new materials for use in fuel cell applications. Dr Saiful Islam and Dr Peter Slater received £178,000 from the Engineering and Physical... view more... (2003-08-11)

Northwestern researchers develop bistable nanoswitch
Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have been under intense study by scientists all over the world for more than a decade and are being thought of as ideal building blocks for nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS).   view more (2006-10-16)

Contaminated Site Remediation: Are Nanomaterials the Answer? First Map of Global Nanoremediation Sites Available Online
A new review article appearing in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) co-authored by Dr. Todd Kuiken, a research associate for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN), focuses on the use of nanomaterials for environmental cleanup.   view more (2009-07-09)

Modeling the chemical reactions of nanoparticles
As science enters the world of the very small, researchers will be searching for new ways to study nanoparticles and their properties.   view more (2006-03-28)

Nanoparticles create biocompatible capsules
An innovative strategy of mixing lipids and nanoparticles to produce new drug and agricultural materials and delivery vehicles has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.   view more (2006-03-07)

U-M research: New plastic is strong as steel, transparent
By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent.   view more (2007-10-05)

European research infrastructures: a means to boost knowledge and fuel growth
Advances in material science - which studies the structure, properties and performance of the materials all around us - are crucial to Europe's leadership in the global knowledge economy. Understanding and controlling changes in the structure of materials at the microscopic nano-scale, or even smaller, allows scientists to enhance... view more... (2005-03-03)

The fight for the best quantum bit (qubit)
Our results give us, for the first time, the possibility to understand the interaction between just two electrons placed next to each other in a carbon nanotube.   view more (2008-06-25)

Nano-particles Effective in Killing Cancer with One-Two Punch of Chemotherapeutics
Research studies, based at the University of Pennsylvania, demonstrate that biodegradable nano-particles containing two potent cancer-fighting drugs are effective in killing human breast tumors.   view more (2006-04-11)

What do Racquel Welch and quantum physics have in common?
The study aims to delve into a 'void' or empty space in which atoms move, which has a large intrinsic energy density known as zero-point energy   view more (2006-06-30)

Researchers think pink to produce 'green' solar energy
When it comes to producing earth-friendly solar energy, pink may be the new green, according to Ohio State University researchers. Scientists here have developed new dye-sensitized solar cells, that get their pink color from a mixture of red dye and white metal oxide powder in materials that capture light.   view more (2007-07-31)

Screening for complex genetic interactions
In a report published online ahead of the January 15th print edition, Dr. David Amberg (SUNY Upstate Medical University) and colleagues have developed a large-scale reverse genetic screen to identify complex haploinsufficient interactions in S. cerevisiae.   view more (2006-12-28)

Researchers mimic lotus leaves for self-cleaning PV arrays, non-stick MEMS
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are mimicking one of Nature's best non-stick surfaces to help create more reliable electric transmission systems, photovoltaic arrays that retain their efficiency, MEMS structures unaffected by water and improved biocompatible surfaces able to prevent cells from adhering to implanted medical... view more... (2006-10-16)

UCLA researchers create 'fly paper' to capture circulating cancer cells
Just as fly paper captures insects, an innovative new device with nano-sized features developed by researchers at UCLA is able to grab cancer cells in the blood that have broken off from a tumor.   view more (2009-11-19)
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