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An Affordable Alternative To Fuel Cells

In an effort to develop alternative energy sources such as fuel cells and solar fuel from "artificial" photosynthesis, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory are taking...

21 Aug 2007

Using Organic molecules as Electronic Components in Nanoscale Devices

21 Aug 2007

Turning Water Into Fuel

21 Aug 2007

Nanoparticles Give 60-70% Increase In Solar Cell Power

Octillion Corp. today announces that a published research study has demonstrated, among other achievements, that the same silicon nanoparticles used in development of the Company’s first-of-its-kind transparent gla...

21 Aug 2007

Increased Applications For Anchor’s NanoScope DFM Platform

Anchor Semiconductor, the pioneer and technology leader in design-for-manufacturing (DFM) solutions for controlling layout-to-silicon pattern transfer, and Dongbu HiTek, the biggest pure-play foundry in Korea, jointly an...

21 Aug 2007

Portable Biosensor Distinguish Between The Truly Sick and The Worried But Well

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have discovered a way to increase the sensitivity of test strips that will enable creation of a portable biosensor that can address a major concern associated with inci...

21 Aug 2007

Boston To Host 2008 Micro & Nanomanufacturing Conferences

The Boston area will play host to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' annual MicroManufacturing and NanoManufacturing Conferences in 2008. Scheduled April 22-23 at the Sheraton in Framingham, Mass., the events br...

21 Aug 2007

Drug Delivery With Nanogels

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed tiny, spherical nanogels that uniformly release encapsulated carbohydrate-based drugs. The scientists created the nanogels using atom transfer radical polymerization (...

21 Aug 2007

Constructing Nanoreactors Within The Plastic Membrane of Synthetic Nanoscopic Bubbles

Living cells are highly complex synthetic machines: Numerous multistep reactions run simultaneously side by side and with unbelievable efficiency and specificity. For these mainly enzymatic reactions to work so well coll...

21 Aug 2007

Nanoparticles Could be Used to Detect Early Stage Diseases

Most people think of hydrogen peroxide as a topical germ killer, but the medicine cabinet staple is gaining steam in the medical community as an early indicator of disease in the body. Georgia Institute of Technology ...

21 Aug 2007

Nanowire Coating Increases Effectiveness of Titanium as a Biomaterial

University of Arkansas researchers have found a simple, inexpensive way to create a nanowire coating on the surface of biocompatible titanium that can be used to create more effective surfaces for hip replacement, dental...

20 Aug 2007

Oxford Instruments Acquire Manufacturer of Cryogen Free Products

Oxford Instruments plc is pleased to announce the acquisition of VeriCold Technologies GmbH. VeriCold manufacture and market a range of cryogen free products based on their pulse tube cooler technology. These products wi...

20 Aug 2007

Hypershort Flash of Light Allows Motion of Electrons To Be Captured In Real Time

No flash of light can be shorter than the time it takes the wave carrying the flash to perform a full oscillation. A team headed by Prof. Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute has now succeeded in generating – ...

20 Aug 2007

Nanotoxicology Study Shows No Pulmonary Toxicity Issues For Type of Carbon Nanotube

Findings by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee bode well for using single-walled carbon nanohorns, a particular form of engineered carbon-based nanoparticles, for dru...

20 Aug 2007

Nanotech Lab Design Specialist to Share Expertise at NanoTX'07

Architect John Weinman, leader of internationally renowned architecture firm Perkins+Will’s Nanoscience + Engineering Laboratory Group, will share his knowledge in master planning, programming and designing laborat...

18 Aug 2007