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Nanotechnology Offers Hope for Those Suffering Spinal Cord Injuries, Diabetes and Parkinson's Disease

Imagine a world where damaged organs in your body?kidneys, liver, heart?can be stimulated to heal themselves. Envision people tragically paralyzed whose injured spinal cords can be repaired. Think about individuals suffe...

23 Apr 2007

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

Improved Self Assembling Nanomaterials to Result in More Powerful Solar Cells

Novel, self-assembly techniques for fabricating inorganic nanomaterials that could pave the way for more efficient and powerful solar cells, chemical sensors and detectors currently are being developed by a University at...

20 Apr 2007

Report on Green Nanotechnology to be Released on April 26

The ability to eliminate waste and toxins from production processes early on, to create more efficient and flexible solar panels, and to remove contaminants from water, is becoming an exciting reality with nanotechnology...

20 Apr 2007

Both Innner and Outer Surface Characteristics Influence Electronic Properties of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown for the first time that knowing the structure of the surface layer of a multi-layer carbon nanotube is not enough to predict its electronic properties. The contribution ...

19 Apr 2007

New Methods Required to Measure Airborne Nanoparticles

New methods and tools for measuring exposure to airborne engineered nanomaterials will be required to protect the health of workers in nanotechnology-related jobs - estimated to total 10 million people by 2014 - accordin...

18 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

Zeptoliter Pipette Helps Reveal Freezing "Dance" of Nanoscale Drops

Using what is thought to be the world's smallest pipette, two researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown that tiny droplets of liquid metal freeze much differently th...

17 Apr 2007