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New Class of Iron and Arsenic Superconductors

A new class of materials that exhibit superconductivity at relatively high temperatures contain no copper-oxygen layers. Instead they have rather lace-like layers composed of arsenic and iron. A great flurry of activity to understand these new superconductors is underway

29 May 2008

Swedish Nanotechnology Researchers Make Complex Nanostructures With Laser Light

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden have reported that a single laser pulse can create complex, ordered nanostructure systems. This previously unobserved phenomenon has just beeen described in an ...

29 May 2008

Nanoscience, Neuroscience and Astrophysics Pioneers Win Inaugural Kavli Prize

Seven pioneering scientists who have transformed human knowledge in the fields of nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics have become the first recipients of the million-dollar Kavli prizes. The laureates were sele...

29 May 2008

Measuring Technique Details Characteristics of Magnetic Nanoparticles for Cancer Treatments

A measuring procedure developed in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) can help to investigate in some detail the behaviour of magnetic nanoparticles which are used for cancer therapy. Magnetic nanoparticl...

29 May 2008

Smaller and Faster Computers From Carbon Nanoribbons

Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which...

29 May 2008

Researchers Trying to Flip Electron Spin Find Electron Switch

University of Oregon researchers trying to flip the spin of electrons with laser bursts lasting picoseconds (a trillionth of a second) instead found a way to manipulate and control the spin -- knowledge that may prove us...

29 May 2008

Rice Alliance Life Science Venture Forum Names CytoViva “Most Promising Life Science Technology Company”

CytoViva, Inc. was named one of the top ten most promising Life Science companies at the 7th Annual Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship Life Science Venture Forum in Houston last week. Life Science compan...

29 May 2008

Amyloids Have Have Potential as a Nanomaterials

Amyloid deposits in tissues and organs are linked to a number of diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, type II diabetes, and prion diseases such as BSE. However, amyloids are not just pathological substances; they have potential as a nanomaterials.

29 May 2008

Atomic Force Microscope from Nanosurf Lands Successfully on Mars

Nanosurf AG is proud to contribute the first space-adapted atomic force microscope (AFM) for NASA's current Mars Mission named Phoenix. The goal of the Phoenix Mission is to answer important questions such as whether water exists in forms that support life

28 May 2008

World’s First Graduate in NanoEconomics Comes From UAlbany NanoCollege

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering of the University at Albany announced today that a doctoral degree has been awarded to a CNSE student who is the world's first graduate in Nanoeconomics

28 May 2008

Nanotechnology and Nanofiber Fabrics Rendering Toxic Chemicals Harmless

Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza is working with the U.S. government to create fabrics made of functional nanofibers that would decompose toxic industrial chemicals into harmless byproducts. Potential applicati...

28 May 2008

Unifying Theory of Lasers Advanced by Physicists

Researchers at Yale and the Institute of Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich have formulated a theory that, allows scientists to better understand and predict the properties of both conventional and non-conventional lasers, according to a recent article in Science

28 May 2008

Superhard Nanocrystalline Iron Also Able to Withstand High Temperatures

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 w...

28 May 2008

Magnetic Nanoparticles Shown to Seek Out and Identify Cancer Cells

Scientists have found that magnetic nanoparticles can be especially helpful in locating cancerous cell clusters during MRI scans. Like teeny guide missiles, the nanoparticles seek out tumor cells and attach themselves to them. Once the nanoparticles bind themselves to these cancer cells, the particles operate like radio transmitters, greatly aiding the MRI's detection capability

28 May 2008

Researchers Create Self Assembled Carbon Nanotubes

Thanks to the rising trend toward miniaturization, carbon nanotubes – which are about 100,000 times thinner than a human hair and possess several unique and very useful properties – have become the choice can...

28 May 2008