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FEI Demonstrates Table-Top Scanning Electron Microscope for Advancing Science Education

FEI demonstrated the world's first tabletop scanning electron microscope (SEM) designed specifically for education on Capitol Hill last week. The Phenom-Ed provides magnification up to 20,000x -- far beyond the range...

6 Mar 2007

New Super-Thin Technology

Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create a new type of technology, which could be used to make super-fast electronic components and speed up the development of drugs. Physicists at The Univers...

6 Mar 2007

New Computer Modeling Could Aid Design of Nanomaterials

Researchers from MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University have developed a new computer modeling approach to study how materials behave under stress at the atomic level, offering insights that could...

6 Mar 2007

New Class of Nanomaterials Could Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells, Brighter LEDs

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created the world's first material that reflects virtually no light. Reporting in the March issue of Nature Photonics, they describe an optical coating ...

6 Mar 2007

Nanostripes and Superconductivity Gridlock

Superconductivity -- the conduction of electricity with zero resistance -- sometimes can, it seems, become stalled by a form of electronic "gridlock." A possible explanation why is offered by new research a...

6 Mar 2007

Live Video Footage of Carbon Nanotube Formation Produced by Cambridge University

A Cambridge University-led team of scientists have successfully produced live video footage that shows how carbon nanotubes, more than 10,000 times smaller in diameter than a human hair, form. The video sequences sho...

6 Mar 2007

Nanoscale Switch Elements from Self-Assembled Monolayers on Silver

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a prototype nanoscale electronic switch that works like lightning - except for the speed. Their proof-of-concept experiments repo...

6 Mar 2007

Nanoparticle Films May Lead to Artificial Retina

The world's first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films has been achieved by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Mi...

6 Mar 2007

A Uniaxial BioMEMS Device for Quantitative Force-Displacement Measurements

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cell-stretcher that can measure the mechanical properties of a living cell, such as its abili...

6 Mar 2007

Scientists Measure the Magnetic Interaction Between Single Atoms

It is a vision of information technology to store data in the smallest available units - single atoms - thus enabling the development of novel mass storage devices with huge capacities but compact dimensions. It is cruci...

6 Mar 2007

Argonne Lab Develop Advanced Concept in Nanoscale Catalyst Engineering

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed an advanced concept in nanoscale catalyst engineering - a combination of experiments and simulations that will bring polymer e...

6 Mar 2007

Nanoparticle Combination Therapy Kills Intractable Tumors

Administering a small amount of a potent but potentially toxic anticancer agent along with nanoparticles loaded with a second anticancer agent produced a dramatic inhibition of tumor growth in normally intractable cancer...

6 Mar 2007

Magnetic Nanocrystals Carry Tumor-Killing Drugs

Imagine using a focused magnetic field to concentrate anticancer drugs in and around tumors, and then turning off the magnetic field so that the drugs then leave the body. That possiblity may become a reality as a result...

6 Mar 2007

Targeted Nanoparticles Image Early Tumors

A well-established fact in cancer therapy is that early tumor detection improves the odds that a patient will survive the disease. Now, using nanoparticles targeted to the tiny blood vessels that surround even the smalle...

6 Mar 2007

Watery Nanoparticles Deliver Anticancer Therapy

Ultrafine nanoparticles made of a lacy web of polymer and tiny pockets of water may prove to be an ideal vehicle for delivering light-activated drugs to tumors. Preliminary experiments, published in the journal Angewandt...

6 Mar 2007