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Reducing Pollution from Nanoparticles by 25 Percent

A study undertaken by researchers from the University of Alcalá (UAH) shows that if the "super-polluters", the high-polluting vehicles, such as certain buses and lorries in a poor condition, were removed, pollution from nanoparticles could be reduced by up to 25% and 48%, depending on the parameter analysed. These minute particles cause serious health problems.

16 Oct 2008

Country's Most Elaborate Travel-Wear Keeping Body Cool in Hot Helicopter Cabins

The country's most elaborate travel-wear keeps the body cool in hot helicopter cabins, but transforms into a heat-retaining suit if the helicopter should fall into the sea.

16 Oct 2008

Gold Nanorods Now Available for Non-Invasive Photothermal Cancer Therapy

A revolutionary new gold nanorod manufacturing method has been developed at Nanopartz where their patent pending gold nanorods are proving their ability to be the future in-vivo nanoparticle for the detection and treatme...

16 Oct 2008

Two MIT Faculty Members Among Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10'

Popular Science magazine has named MIT faculty members Rebecca Saxe and Francesco Stellacci to its annual "Brilliant 10" list of the country's top young scientists to watch. The list appears in the November...

15 Oct 2008

neuMirRx Issued Patent for Novel Drug Formulation Technology

neuMirRx Corp today welcomed the issuance of U.S. patent 7,345,093, entitled "Methods for Enhancing Solubility of Compounds" which covers novel formulation methods to enhance the solubility of hydrophobic compo...

15 Oct 2008

Nanotechnology Central to Developing and Using New Electronics and Energy Technologies

The future of how the world communicates, and how we power our lives, will likely come from the same source. According to the latest NanoFrontiers newsletter and Trips to the Nanofrontier podcast, nanotechnolgoy will be central to developing and using new electronics and energy technologies.

15 Oct 2008

Enable IPC's CTO Discusses Nanoporous Insulating Materials for Ultracapacitor at ECS

Enable IPC Corp., a leading company for turning technologies into products and successfully bringing them to market, today announced that Kevin Leonard, CTO of the company’s SolRayo LLC subsidiary, will be one of t...

15 Oct 2008

University of Utah Announces Establishment of Nano Institute of Utah

Officials at the University of Utah announced today the establishment of the Nano Institute of Utah, representing a significant and decisive step in the state's quest to bring together the university's and the st...

15 Oct 2008

Novel Nanoparticles Being Tested Have Researchers Seeing Stars

Novel nanoparticles being tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have researchers seeing stars. In a recent paper,* NIST scientists used surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to demonstrate that gold nanostars exhibit optical qualities that make them superior for chemical and biological sensing and imaging.

15 Oct 2008

Buckypapers Clarify Optical and Electrical Behavior of Nanotubes

Using highly uniform samples of carbon nanotubes-sorted by centrifuge for length-materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made some of the most precise measurements yet of the concentrations at which delicate mats of nanotubes become transparent, conducting sheets.

15 Oct 2008