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The Future of Nanotechnology Promoted via Newsletters and Podcasts

Nanotechnology’s many anticipated benefits will arrive in waves of innovation, beginning with today’s stain-resistant clothing and other first-generation applications and extending decades into the future, wh...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 23 Apr 2007

Molecular Nose Uses Nanotchnology to Detect Proteins and Diseases

A team of scientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have created a kind of molecular nose that uses nanoparticle-based sensors to sniff out and identify proteins. The sensors, which can be trained to detect...

23 Apr 2007

Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Using Gold Nanoparticles

By attaching gold nanoparticles – like tiny balls or rods- to cancer cells, earlier detection will be possible. Using photoacoustics – a combination of laser light and ultrasound-, scientists of the BMTI Inst...

21 Apr 2007

New Report Explores Where Nanotechnology is Heading

Controlling the properties and behavior of matter at the smallest scale - in effect, “domesticating atoms” - can help to overcome some of the world’s biggest challenges, concludes a new report on how di...

17 Apr 2007

Dielectric Response of Aligned Semiconducting Single-Wall Nanotubes

Stretching a carbon nanotube composite like taffy, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) have made some of the first measurements of how ...

17 Apr 2007

NanoFrontiers: Visions for the Future of Nanotechnology

Controlling the properties and behavior of matter at the smallest scale -- in effect, "domesticating atoms" -- can help to overcome some of the world's biggest challenges, concludes a new report on how dive...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 17 Apr 2007

Will Nanotechnology Revolutionize Medicine?

Will nanotechnology revolutionize medicine? Scientists are working now to create novel nanostructures that serve as new kinds of drugs for treating cancer, Parkinson’s and cardiovascular disease; to engineer na...

13 Apr 2007

Advanced Nanotechnology and Energics to Create Integrated Fuel-Borne Catalyst JV

Advanced Nanotechnology Limited today announced that it has executed a Letter of Intent with Energenics Holdings Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based supplier of alternative energy solutions and technologies, to create an integrat...

12 Apr 2007

Fabrication of Nano and Micrometer Scale Biomaterial Structures via Direct Write Technology

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere University of Technology and Nanofoot Finland Oy have developed a direct-write three-dimensional forming method of biomaterials. The methodology enables fabrication of na...

12 Apr 2007

Selective Modification of Nanoscale Rods Using Gold Nanoparticles

Nanotechnology appears to be an unstoppable trend and it requires defined nanoscale building blocks and patterns. “A typical difficulty with the synthesis of nanostructures is the modification of nanoscale objects ...

10 Apr 2007