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New Technique Creates Nanoshell Structures That Can Trap and Store Light

Scientists from four U.S. universities have created a way to use Rice University's light-activated nanoshells as building blocks for 2-D and 3-D structures that could find use in chemical sensors, nanolasers and bizarre light-absorbing metamaterials.

28 May 2010

Silver Nanoparticles Prevent Cell Damage from Ethanol

The cover story of the most recent edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) describes how nanoparticles formed by very small numbers of silver atoms can protect against the cell damage caused b...

26 May 2010

Rapid Synthesis of Nanoscale Reporter Tags Offers Promising Alternative to Fluorescent Labeling

Visualizing the complex internal cellular processes within our bodies requires the use of photostable, optically active probes that can be tracked with special microscopy instruments. One technique, surface-enhanced Rama...

26 May 2010

New Tiny Pipette Technique Helps to Study Structural Properties of Tissues

A collaboration of French and Canadian researchers have found that sucking a portion of a spherical globule of cells into a tiny pipette provides information about the adhesion between cells and the elastic properties of the tissue.

26 May 2010

Researchers Test C6-Ceramide Nanoliposomes on Cancer Cells

A new way to deliver cancer-fighting drugs using tiny particles made from lipids and chemotherapy drugs may have the power to knock out malignancies with a one-two punch. The strategy holds promise for patients with...

26 May 2010

NIH Senior Investigator Presents at Institute of Biophysics

Dr. Joshua Zimmerberg, senior investigator of the National Institutes of Health, USA visited the Institute of Biophysics (IBP) and delivered a lecture at the invitation of IBP director Professor XU Tao on May 20, 2010. ...

25 May 2010

Non-Toxic Method to Produce Antibacterial Silver Nanoparticles

Writing in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, Rani Pattabi and colleagues at Mangalore University, explain how blasting silver nitrate solution with an electron beam can generate nanoparticles that are more effe...

25 May 2010

Gold Nanorods Effectively Deliver Immune Activator Molecule into Cells

Future pandemics of seasonal flu, H1N1 and other drug-resistant viruses may be thwarted by a potent, immune-boosting payload that is effectively delivered to cells by gold nanorods, report scientists at the University at...

25 May 2010

ASU Scientists to Use NanoSIMS Imaging System for Research Projects

The National Science Foundation’s Major Research and Instrumentation (MRI) Program recently funded a $3.7 million NanoSIMS imaging mass spectrometer for 13 ASU scientists and a large number of collaborators working...

24 May 2010

Shrink Nanotechnologies Files Patent Applications for StemDisc Tool

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors, and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today that patent applications for its stem cell research and drug discovery tool StemDisc™ have been filed.

24 May 2010