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Packard Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship goes to Rutgers Physicist

Rutgers physicist Emil Yuzbashyan has received a Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, which provides $625,000 in research funding for five years. This marks the first time the Packard Foundation has...

11 Oct 2007

Creating a Modular, Multi-Functional Drug Delivery System that Promises Simultaneously to Enhance the Effectiveness and Reduce Undesirable Side Effects of a Number of Different Drugs

There are two aspects to creating an effective drug: finding a chemical compound that has the desired biological effect and minimal side-effects and then delivering it to the right place in the body for it to do its job....

8 Oct 2007

Nanofabrication Promises to Lead to Novel New Optical Devices

An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties. The new fabrication techni...

8 Oct 2007

Scientists Investigate the Blinking of Quantum Dots

In order to learn more about the origins of quantum dot blinking, researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, the University of Chicago and the California Institute of Technology hav...

5 Oct 2007

Biomimicry and Nanotechnology Team Up to Create Transparent Plastics as Strong as Steel

By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that's as strong as steel but lighter and transparent. It's made of layers...

5 Oct 2007

Cutting Edge Science on Environmental Health and Safety to be Revealed at NanoTX '07

Experts from government, academia, consulting companies, non-profit organizations and industry will gather to hear Dr. John Balbus, Chief Health Scientist for Environmental Defense offer the most up to date information o...

4 Oct 2007

How the Edges of Metallic Thin Films Contribute to Their Magnetic Properties

Materials researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), together with colleagues from IBM and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have pushed the measurement of thin films to the edge -...

4 Oct 2007

Nanotechnology Leaves the Geeks and Goes Mainstream

Say “nanotechnology,” and geeks imagine iPhones, laptops and flash drives. But more than 60 percent of the 580 products in a newly updated inventory of nanotechnology consumer products are such “un-geek...

From Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies 3 Oct 2007

Oxford Instruments Sells Five of their New OpAL Atomic Layer Deposition Systems

Oxford Instruments, the high-technology tools and systems company, is pleased to announce the launch and first customer orders of its new OpAL atomic layer deposition (ALD) system. Following on from Oxford Instruments&rs...

2 Oct 2007

Carbon Nanotube Forests Connect Computer Chips to Heat Sinks

Engineers have shown how to grow forests of tiny cylinders called carbon nanotubes onto the surfaces of computer chips to enhance the flow of heat at a critical point where the chips connect to cooling devices called hea...

2 Oct 2007