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Biologically Friendly Nano Sized Light Source Invented That Emits Choherent Light Across Visible Spectrum

A bio-friendly nano-sized light source capable of emitting coherent light across the visible spectrum, has been invented by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Labora...

29 Jun 2007

Tagging and Engineering Molecules For Energy Conversion, Drug Delivery and Medical Imaging By Pairing Nanoparticles With Proteins

In groundbreaking research, scientists have demonstrated the ability to strategically attach gold nanoparticles - particles on the order of billionths of a meter - to proteins so as to form sheets of protein-gold arrays....

28 Jun 2007

Nanorod and Nanowire Development May Help Compress Computer Memory

A team of chemists at Brown University has devised a simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one k...

26 Jun 2007

FEI's Phenom Bridges the Gap between Optical and Scanning Electron Microscopy

FEI has released its new Phenom™ microscope, an innovative system that bridges the critical price and performance gap between optical and scanning electron microscope (SEM) technologies. Operated easily via its h...

26 Jun 2007

Nanorods with Controlled Properties are Key to High Density Data Storage

A team of chemists at Brown University have devised a simple way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while controlling both size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one ...

26 Jun 2007

Targeting and Imaging Cancer Cells With Multifunctional Nanoparticle Platforms

There has been much recent interest in how nanotechnology will impact the field of medicine. Unfortunately, a number of promising nanostructured systems have turned out to be extremely toxic to humans, thus precluding th...

22 Jun 2007

Nano 50 Award For CytoViva

CytoViva, Inc., an optical microscopy company, announced that its Dual Mode Fluorescence (DMF) module has been selected as a Nano 50 Award recipient. The annual competition from the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs recogni...

20 Jun 2007

Miniaturised, Automatic Cancer Diagnosis From The FISH on a Chip

For the first time an important diagnostic test for cancer has been miniaturized and automated onto a microfluidic chip by a team of University of Alberta researchers in Edmonton, Canada. This new technology opens up ...

20 Jun 2007

Natural Protein Clean Up of Nanoparticles May Lead To Environmental Remediation

Deep inside a flooded mine in Wisconsin, scientists from several institutions including the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a world in which bacteria e...

19 Jun 2007

Reactivity of Nanosystems at the Atomic Level

Nickel-rhodium nanowires exhibit surprisingly high reactivity towards oxygen. As a result, they offer future development potential for new types of chemical catalysts. These findings were the result of research by an Aus...

18 Jun 2007