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New Kind of Nanotechnology Imaging Technique Developed By using high-energy X-rays produced by synchrotron sources, researchers achieved a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they developed a way to get around the severe distortions of high-energy X-ray beams that are used to image the structure of a gold nanocrystal. The ... Read More »

mPhase Seeks Licensing Opportunities for Nanotechnology-Inspired Drug Delivery System mPhase Technologies, Inc. said today that it is pursuing licensing opportunities for its Smart Drug Delivery System. mPhase recently filed a United States Letter Patent application for its novel drug delivery system based on its Smart Surface technology. The drug delivery patent is based on mPhase’s Smart Surface technology enabling the ... Read More »

Nano Days: glimpse of nanotechnology Nathan Guerard/The Poly Post NanoDays Fifth-year Mechanical Engineering student Andrea Ferris (right) teaches Fremont Academy high school students about the engineering field and its concepts. Cal Poly Pomona’s Science and Engineering Departments held the fourth annual Nano Days event on Friday in the Bronco Student Center. Students and faculty from the Engineering and Science Departments ... Read More »

High-pressure imaging breakthrough a boon for nanotechnology High-pressure imaging breakthrough a boon for nanotechnology The study of nanoscale material just got much easier, and the design of nanoscale technology could get much more efficient, thanks to an advance in X-ray analysis. Nanomaterials develop new physical and chemical properties, such as superconductivity and enhanced strength, when exposed to extreme pressure. A ... Read More »

New Technique Holds Potential for In-Situ Nanotechnology Development Under High Pressures A major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressure has been made by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN). Described in Nature Communications, the study used new advances in x-ray diffraction to image the changes in morphology of gold nanocrystals under pressures of ... Read More »

Nanotechnology-Inspired Cancer-Detection Instrument Extends Market Reach A device co-developed by a University of Houston (UH) physicist to detect the spread of breast cancer and allow physicians to better plan intervention is extending its market reach, bringing it another step closer to clinical trials in the U.S. The highly sensitive SentiMag instrument and its associated Sienna+ tracer combine nanotechnology and advanced ... Read More »

Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) are promising building blocks for nanotechnology due to fine synthetic control of their electronic and optical properties at the sub-10 nm scale. However, it is a challenge to design nano-optical systems at the single-dot level. Reporting their results in the journal Nanotechnology, researchers from the MIT Center for Excitonics in the US have come up with one ... Read More »