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Drug-Filled Nanoparticles Offer Potential Cure for Melanoma

Nanoparticles filled with a drug that targets two genes that trigger melanoma could offer a potential cure for this deadly disease, according to cancer researchers. The treatment, administered through an ultrasound devic...

16 Sep 2008

Experiment Verify Calculation on Ideal Strength of Graphene

In 2007, Prof. Ming Pingbing from the CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and his colleagues made a calculation on the ideal strength of graphene, a promising carbon material. One year later, their work is ver...

16 Sep 2008

Nanotechnology Could be the Answer to Ensuring Safe Supply of Drinking Water

Nanotechnology could be the answer to ensuring a safe supply of drinking water for regions of the world stricken by periodic drought or where water contamination is rife. Writing in the International Journal of Nuclear D...

16 Sep 2008

Futuristic Nanotechnology and Decades-Old Drug to Tackle Atherosclerosis

Futuristic nanotechnology has been teamed with a decades-old drug to beat atherosclerotic plaques in research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The scientists have found that drug-la...

16 Sep 2008

NanoDynamics Completes STTR Grant for Development of NanoPly

NanoDynamics Inc. announced the completion of its six-month, $50,000 Phase IB STTR grant extension from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the research and development of a novel consolidation method for nanostruc...

15 Sep 2008

Nano-C Issued Patents Covering Manufacture of Carbon Nanotubes and Fullerenes

Nano-C, Inc., leading developer of nanostructured carbon materials, today announced that it has been issued U.S. Patent Nos. 7,335,344 and 7,396,520 by the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademar...

15 Sep 2008

El-Mul Selects Black Magic Plasma CVD System to Produce Carbon Nanotube-Based Electron Sources

El-Mul Technologies' E-Beam On-a- Chip(TM) platform, which demands precision placement and step repeatability of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs), will be produced using AIXTRON's Black Magic system, a ...

15 Sep 2008

Historian and Nanotechnology Pioneer Honored at MSU

A professor who specializes in early American history and a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology have been appointed Letters and Science Distinguished Professors at Montana State University. Historian Billy Smith a...

13 Sep 2008

Nanotubes, Magnets and Electrically Charged Particles Leading to Quicker DNA Sequencing

Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is exploring how a system of nanotubes, magnets and electrically charged particles could lead to a quicker, cheaper way to conduct DNA sequencing. The project headed by Predrag S...

13 Sep 2008

NaturalNano R+D Director to Present at Eighth World Congress Nanocomposites 2008 Conference

NaturalNano, Inc., a developer of advanced nanomaterials and extended release nanotechnologies, today announced that its Director of Research and Development, Aaron Wagner, Ph.D., will present "Applications of Hallo...

13 Sep 2008