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Safety of Carbon Nanotubes in the Body Investigated to See if Carbon Nanotubes Build Up in Essential Organs

News - 30 Jan 2008

Carbon nanotubes-cylinders so tiny that it takes 50,000 lying side by side to equal the width of a human hair-are packed with the potential to be highly accurate vehicles for administering medicines...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applied to Microscale Gas Phase Reactions may Improve Future Catalysts and Catalytic Reactors for Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip Devices

News - 29 Jan 2008

In a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip” devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of...

Microscopic Printing Process Ten Times Better Than Current Methods for Producing Printed Electronics

News - 29 Jan 2008

A new technique for printing extraordinarily thin lines quickly over wide areas could lead to larger, less expensive and more versatile electronic displays as well new medical devices, sensors and...

Localized and Controlled Drug Delivery Method Using Nanotechnology

News - 22 Jan 2008

Using nanotechnology, scientists from UCLA and Northwestern University have developed a localized and controlled drug delivery method that is invisible to the immune system, a discovery that could...

Students Use Nanotechnology and Computer Simulation to Deal With Urban Disasters

News - 14 Jan 2008

Seventh- and eighth-graders in the annual National Engineers Week Future City Competition™ normally create cities with utopia in mind. This year, they’re also confronting the...

Gene Detection Platform Made From Self Assembled DNA Nanostructures

News - 11 Jan 2008

Scientists at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have developed the world’s first gene detection platform made up entirely from self-assembled DNA nanostructures. The results,...

Computer Chip Minimisation Continues to be Pushed to the Limits

News - 9 Jan 2008

Over the last four decades, computer chips have found their way into virtually every electronic device in the world. During that time they have become smaller, cheaper and more powerful, but, for a...

Evolution of Life Shown in Fungus Molecule

News - 3 Jan 2008

The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served as a time machine to show researchers more about the evolution of life from the simple to the complex. By studying the...

Experts Work Together to Develop Next Generation MEMS Devices

News - 21 Dec 2007

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are tiny components etched from silicon. Production is extremely complex, sometimes with hundreds of steps, each with dozens of parameters. One European project...

Laser can Switch a Film Back and Forth between Reflective and Transparent without Changing Temperature

News - 7 Dec 2007

It’s a rare case of all light and no heat: A new study reports that a laser can be used to switch a film of vanadium dioxide back and forth between reflective and transparent states without...