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Conformation Activity Relationships - Why Do Molecules Change Shape?

In Farfield, our work over the past decade has revolved around the direct measurement of the shape or conformation of biomolecules and how this changes as the biomolecules function.

14 Feb 2010

Nanotechnology Risks - The Bigger Picture for Business and the Importance of 'Due Diligence'

The holistic process of risk analysis, advocated and practiced by SAFENANO - the UK's MNT Centre of Excellence in Nanotechnology Safety - is the basis of the assessment, management and communication of potential harm from substances, processes or technologies.

8 Feb 2010

Bionanotechnology - Combining Nanotechnology with Biology

If we define nanotechnology as the application of materials and devices with characteristic (i.e. property determining) length scales between 1 and 100nm to the development of new products and processes; then bionanotechnology is its interface with biological systems.

8 Feb 2010

What are Nanocomposite Ceramics?

The definition of nanocomposite material has broadened significantly to encompass a large variety of systems such as one-dimensional, two-dimensional, three-dimensional and amorphous materials, made of distinctly dissimilar components and mixed at the nanometer scale.

31 Jan 2010

Functionalization of Nanoporous Materials Using Atomic Layer Deposition

Professor Narayan and his colleague at Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University have recently performed several studies to examine the use of atomic layer deposition for modifying the surfaces of nanoporous alumina membranes.

31 Jan 2010

Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials: Nature Inspired Hierarchical Architectures

This review will focus on carbon nanotubes attached on larger graphitic solids, which can range from simple flat graphite to complex cellular foams having open-interconnected porosity.

17 Jan 2010

Nanomechanical Measurements and Tools

The Nanomechanical Properties Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, under the leadership of Dr. Robert F. Cook, develops measurement techniques and standards to enable the use of materials in nanomechanical applications.

17 Jan 2010

Nanohydroxyapatite Coatings, Powders and Platelets Produced via Sol-Gel Methods for Medical Applications

Nanotechnology has opened up innovative techniques for producing bone-like synthetic nanopowders and hydroxyapatite coatings. Although not called nanopowders, nanoscale materials have existed since the dawn of science using a range of chemical routes.

7 Jan 2010

Evaluation of Unbound Engineered Nanoparticles from a Worker Exposure and Environmental Release Perspective

Nanotechnology and the use of unbound engineered nanoparticles (UNP) is a rapidly developing area of material science.

20 Dec 2009

Nano-Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Systems and Energy Applications

The quest is on for high power and energy density power sources at ever smaller sizes for applications ranging from on-chip sensors to insertable pharma-delivery to flying microrobots to more mundane applications powering PDAs and computers.

20 Dec 2009

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Conformation Activity Relationships - Why Do Molecules Change Shape?

Nanotechnology Risks - The Bigger Picture for Business and the Importance of 'Due Diligence'

Bionanotechnology - Combining Nanotechnology with Biology

What are Nanocomposite Ceramics?

Functionalization of Nanoporous Materials Using Atomic Layer Deposition

Nanoscale Multifunctional Materials: Nature Inspired Hierarchical Architectures

Nanomechanical Measurements and Tools

Nanohydroxyapatite Coatings, Powders and Platelets Produced via Sol-Gel Methods for Medical Applications

Evaluation of Unbound Engineered Nanoparticles from a Worker Exposure and Environmental Release Perspective

Nano-Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Systems and Energy Applications

Automated Image Acquisition and Analysis of Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Structures

Breakthrough in Broadband Photodetectors: Nanomaterial Gii Could Bring Faster Broadband and Higher Quality Medical Imaging

A New Understanding of Metal-Carbon Interactions

Enhancing Solid-State Lithium Batteries with Nano-Ceramic Electrolytes

A New Language for Nanopore Design

Conversations on AFM: Applications of BioAFM in Life Science

Conversations on AFM: The Technology and History Behind AFM and SPM

Recent Advances in High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Improve Research Into Protein Dynamics

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