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Nanoparticles – Little golden assassins
ITHACA, N.Y. – Another weapon in the arsenal against cancer: Nanoparticles that identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone.
Led by Carl Batt, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Food Science, the researchers synthesized nanoparticles – shaped something like a dumbbell – made of gold sandwiched between two pieces of iron [...]
Super material will make lighting cheaper and fully recyclable
With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled.
The invention, which paves the way for glowing wallpaper made entirely of plastic, for example, is published in the scientific journal ACS Nano [...]
The University of Queensland is getting into bed with American alternative energy company
The University of Queensland is getting into bed with American alternative energy company Amyris Biotechnologies Inc to turn sugar cane from Queensland into jet biofuel. They are seeking business opportunities for this new fuel
Amyris Director Professor Peter Gray said the importance of the agreement was reinforced when Queensland Premier Anna Bligh took time to visit [...]
UAlbany NanoCollege and JSC Innovative Technopark in Republic of Tatarstan to Collaborate
The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) and the JSC Innovative Technopark (IDEA) in the Republic of Tatarstan today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a framework for collaboration in nanotechnology education, research and commercialization.
Through the partnership, CNSE will provide assistance to, and participation with, IDEA in areas such as educational, research, [...]
Experts form Nanofactory
Nanotechnology experts from several Yorkshire (UK) universities are taking part in a new programme that could turn advancements in nanoscience into new business opportunities.
The Nanofactory — which brings together nanotechnology experts from the universities of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam and York — is looking to form partnerships with companies interested in nanotechnology.
The project [...]
Biomolecules ‘used to enhance nanotechnology’
In an attempt to produce low-cost nanotechnology devices, one scientist has chosen to use biomolecules such as DNA and proteins in her work.
Jen Cha, nanoengineering professor at the University of California, San Diego, explained that it may be possible to use the technique to develop transistors from carbon nanotubes.
She noted that scientists have been talking [...]
Nanotechnology Research
Did you know that nano-materials can be found in tennis racquets, water shorts, foot powder, sunscreen and over 580 other consumer products? Well-known brands like Samsung, Chanel, Black & Decker, L.L. Bean, Lancome and L’Oreal are just a few of the companies doing nanotechnology research. “The use of nanotechnology and nano-materials in consumer products and [...]
Applications Of Nanotechnology In Textiles And Other Fields
This article summarizes the recent development of nanotechnology in textile areas including textile formation and textile finishing. Details on two major technical aspects, using nanosize entities and employing specific techniques to create nanosize structure inside textile materials, have been elucidated. A number of nanosize fillers and their resultant performances have been reviewed. Particularly, nano-Iayer assembly, [...]
Superresolving Optical Microscopy
Light microscopy is a widely used analytical tool because it provides non-destructive, real-time, three-dimensional imaging with chemical and material specific contrast. Despite microscopy advances in detection, identification, and manipulation, today’s demands on chemical imaging have grown beyond current capabilities. The principal focus of this project is to establish the scientific and metrology underpinnings necessary for [...]
Nanotechnology collaboration aimed at curing cancers
Researchers at Northeastern’s Electronic Materials Research Institute (eMRI) are collaborating with two Harvard Medical School researchers to develop a nanotechnology-based “smart implant” to treat cancer.
The device could improve the efficiency of radiation and drug-based treatments for lung, pancreatic and prostate cancers.
Professor and physics department chair Srinivas Sridhar, director of the eMRI, is leading a team [...]
Nanotechnology in Scotland
Nanotechnology is about engineering at the molecular scale, and it is a science that has huge potential. With that in mind, it’s good to know that there is a thriving nanotech community in Scotland and it is having a major impact on areas such as optoelectronics, cancer research, genomics and cell engineering.
At present the majority [...]
EUROPE: Nanotechnology to improve electronic cars
A EUR44 million (US$66 million) European research collaboration between universities, auto manufacturers and research institutes plans to develop tiny components to help electric vehicles improve their performance so they can better compete with models powered with liquid fuels.
Vehicle manufacturers such as Fiat and Audi will work with the Vienna University of Technology, the BRNO University [...]
EUROPE: EC: Want a voice on nanotechnology?
Feel strongly about nanotechnology as a force for either good or bad? The European Commission is inviting anyone interested in nanosciences and nanotechnologies research to register their views on the Code of Conduct adopted in February 2008 and the formal recommendation drawn up by EU ministers in September that year.
Brussels expects input from the European [...]
Solar Nanotechnology Heats Up in Boston College Breakthrough
Boston College researchers have observed the “hot electron” effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar power efficiency, the authors report in the current online edition of Applied Physics Letters.
When light is captured in solar cells, it [...]
Former OSU student makes professors research his business
Shoaib Shaikh’s cubicle in Oklahoma State University’s Riata Center for Entrepreneurship is tiny, but his business plans are huge.
Shaikh is co-founder and chief executive officer of Xplosafe, L.L.C., a company developing the commercial promise of two Oklahoma State University professors research into bomb detection and defusing.
It all started last year when Shaikh and two other [...]
Intravenous Hemostat: Nanotechnology to Halt Bleeding
Blood loss is the major cause of death in both civilian and battlefield traumas. Methods to staunch bleeding include pressure dressings and absorbent materials. For example, QuikClot effectively halts bleeding by absorbing large quantities of fluid and concentrating platelets to augment clotting, but these treatments are limited to compressible and exposed wounds. An ideal treatment [...]
Researchers develop dirt-resistant solar panels
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a nanotechnological way to make solar panels more resistant to dust and water.
Originally looking for a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers developed a way to control peptide atoms and molecules such that the peptides self-assembled in a vacuum in an array of tubelike structures that look much like [...]
Wisconsin cast-metals manufacturing benefits from $10 million federal grant
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $10.1 million, five-year grant to an interdisciplinary team of researchers led by University of Wisconsin-Madison mechanical engineering professor Xiaochun Li.
The researchers are working to implement nanotechnology into the traditional casting industry, which could yield high-quality aluminum and magnesium nanocomposites in the next five years.
The [...]
Nanotechnology Takes Off – KQED QUEST
From Lawrence Berkeley National Labs to Silicon Valley, researchers are manipulating particles at the atomic level, ushering in potential cures for cancer, clothes that don’t stain, and solar panels as thick as a sheet of paper. www.kqed.org
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Nanoholes and Nanoparticles: Applications to Biomedical Microdevices
Biomedical microdevices include any miniaturized devices or systems for biomedical or biological applications, from simple sensors for monitoring a single biological, to complex micro total analysis or lab-on-a-chip instruments that integrate multiple laboratory functions together with microfluidic sample manipulation. Biomedical microdevice and systems research is an exciting multi-disciplinary field intersecting engineering, physics, chemistry, nanotechnology and [...]
New silicon-germanium nanowires could lead to smaller, more powerful electronic devices
Microchip manufacturers have long faced challenges miniaturizing transistors, the key active components in nearly every modern electronic device, which are used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
Now, researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, Purdue University and IBM have successfully grown silicon-germanium semiconducting nanowires for potential use in [...]
Entropy Alone Creates Complex Crystals From Simple Shapes, Study Shows
In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.
A quasicrystal is a solid whose components exhibit long-range order, but without a single pattern or a unit cell that repeats.
A paper on the findings appears [...]
Eliminating mechanical friction in nanotechnology
Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning the manipulation of famous Casimir forces that took place at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory.
The groundbreaking research, conducted through mathematical simulations, revealed the possibility of a new [...]
Illinois’ AuraSense garners $2.5M investment for nanotechnology-based therapy
A Northwestern University start-up has received a $2.5 million investment to commercialize technology that employs gold nanoparticles to help treat cardiovascular disease.
AuraSense LLC, founded by nanotechnology superstar and Northwestern Professor Chad Mirkin, is developing a technology that uses gold nanoparticles to sweep cholesterol out of a patient’s bloodstream, reducing the chances of heart attack or stroke.
Researchers [...]
Next generation of photovoltaic solar cells will use nanotechnology and photon management
A high tech group directed by Professor Miro Zeman at Delft University of Technology is focusing their efforts on the development of the next generation of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells. Higher yields, lower costs, thinner films and flexibility to adapt to any surface will characterize the new phase in solar panels and systems.
Next generation of [...]
Research team discovers a new use for metamaterials
Ames Laboratory Researchers Predict A Repulsive Casimir Effect Using Exotic Chiral Metamaterials
Research team discovers a new use for metamaterials that promises to eliminate mechanical friction in nanotechnology.
AMES, Iowa – Nanoscale machines expected to have wide application in industry, energy, medicine and other fields may someday operate far more efficiently thanks to important theoretical discoveries concerning [...]
Czech Republic Launches New Nanotechnology Research Initiative with EU Support
Toxicology, mechanical engineering, nanoscience and veterinary medicine are the subjects of four major new EU-funded research initiatives launched recently in the Czech Republic. The projects, which will share over CZK 2 billion (EUR 77 million), are financed under the Operational Programme Research and Development [...]
A (nano-) window that washes itself?
A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, details a breakthrough in assembling peptides at the nano-scale level that could make these futuristic visions come true in just a few years.
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Charotar varsity gets grant to develop smart nanomagnetic fluid
VADODARA: Research on building a magnetic fluid based on nanotechnology will be done at Charotar University of Science and Technology (CHARUSAT)
at Changa after it was awarded a Rs 30 lakh grant for a research
. The grant has been given by department of atomic energy, Government of India.
The project to build smart nanomagnetic fluid will be [...]
Forecasting the Future of Dye-Sensitized and Organic PV
Third-generation thin-film solar devices are beginning to emerge in the marketplace after approximately 20 years of research and development, due to the insight of leading material developers such as Konarka and Plextronics in the organic photovoltaics (OPV) domain, and Dyesol, EPFL, G24i, Mitsubishi and Peccell on the dye-sensitized cells (DSC) front. Both DSC and OPV [...]
