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Scientists Discover How and Why Electrical Conductance of Nanowires Changes With Length

A Georgia Tech physics group has discovered how and why the electrical conductance of metal nanowires changes as their length varies. In a collaborative investigation performed by an experimental team and a theoretical p...

6 Feb 2007

Microcontact Insertion Printing

A new process for creating patterns of individual molecules on a surface combines control of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and a soft-lithography technique known as microcontact printing. Scientists use the process, k...

6 Feb 2007

NanoMed Pharma Completes Second Closing of Series A Financing

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals has announced that it has achieved its preclinical development milestone for the company's lead oncology product which is intended to overcome multidrug resistance in remission induction thera...

6 Feb 2007

NanoLogix to Hold Informational Meeting in Sarasota

NanoLogix will hold an informational meeting in Sarasota, Florida on February 12, 2007. Although the company has distributed proxies to NNLX shareholders, the company intends to utilize the February meeting solely to inc...

From NanoLogix 6 Feb 2007

China Bets on Nanotechnology

"China is betting that their growing investment in nanoscience will help them capture a large share of what shortly will become a $3 trillion global market in nanotech manufactured goods, and that breakthroughs in n...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 6 Feb 2007

Coated Nanoparticles Solve Sticky Drug-Delivery Problem

The layers of mucus that protect sensitive tissue throughout the body have an undesirable side effect: they can also keep helpful medications away. To overcome this hurdle, investigators at Johns Hopkins University have ...

6 Feb 2007

Brightly Fluorescent Europium Nanoparticles May Improve Cancer Assays

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have created a new type of nanoparticle that could be used in tests for medical diagnostics, environmental pollution, and contamination of food products. The particles,...

6 Feb 2007

Heat and pH-Sensitive Nanoparticles Designed to Target Tumors

Using a novel polymer that becomes unstable under the pH conditions inside tumor cells, investigators at Singapore’s Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology have developed a core-shell nanoparticle targeted ...

6 Feb 2007

Bright Nanoparticles Aid Basic Cancer Biology Studies

Though there is little doubt that nanoscale devices are going to play a critical role in improving cancer detection and treatment over the next five to ten years, nanoparticles are already having a major impact on the wa...

6 Feb 2007

Polymer Nanofibers Become Stronger When Their Diameter Shrinks Below a Ceratin Size

Bigger may be better, but tinier is stronger. So say scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, who have shown that tiny polymer nanofibers become much stronger when their diameters shrink below a certain...

5 Feb 2007

Nanoscale Magnets Enhance Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)

Nanoscale magnets in the form of iron-containing molecules might be used to improve the contrast between healthy and diseased tissue in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - as long as the concentration of nanomagnets is ca...

2 Feb 2007

NASA Moonbase to be Showcased at NanoTX'07

Exhibits depicting NASA’s plans for a sustainable lunar outpost will be the featured centerpiece at nanoTX’07, event organizers have now revealed after months of planning. The exhibits will graphically show i...

2 Feb 2007

Greenyarn Introduce Smartfleece Throws that Benefit from Nanotechnology

Greenyarn, a Boston nanotech startup developing advanced fabrics for consumers seeking eco-friendly alternatives to conventional materials, is now manufacturing and selling “Eco-fabric fleece throws" or SmartF...

2 Feb 2007

Hiden Analytical Celebrate 25 Successful Years Designing and Manufacturing World-Class Instrumentation for Mass Analysis

Hiden Analytical Ltd. are celebrating 25 years of design and manufacture of instrumentation for gas and vapour measurement. The company was officially launched at the end of 1981 to manufacture reliable, high performance...

From Hiden Analytical 2 Feb 2007

Veeco Receives Order for NEXUS PVD System from Leading Data Storage Company

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that it received an order for its NEXUS(R) Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) Multi-Target System from a leading data storage company. The system will be used in advanced research to d...

2 Feb 2007