NANO TECH - NANO DAILY

Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)

Many pollutants with the potential to meddle with hormones - with bisphenol A (BPA) as a prime example - are already common in the environment. In an effort to ...

Measuring nano-vibrations

Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)

In a recent paper published in Nature Nanotechnology, Joel Moser and ICFO colleagues of the NanoOptoMechanics research group led by Prof. Adrian Bachtold, toget...

Outsmarting Thermodynamics in Self-assembly of Nanostructures

Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)

If you can uniformly break the symmetry of nanorod pairs in a colloidal solution, you're a step ahead of the game toward achieving new and exciting metamaterial...

'Nanomotor lithography' answers call for affordable, simpler device manufacturing

Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)

What does it take to fabricate electronic and medical devices tinier than a fraction of a human hair? Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego r...

Nanosafety research - there's room for improvement

Oct 31, 2014 (SPX)

Empa toxicologist Harald Krug has lambasted his colleagues in the journal Angewandte Chemie. He evaluated several thousand studies on the risks associated with ...

Tiny carbon nanotube pores make big impact

Oct 30, 2014 (SPX)

A team led by the Lawrence Livermore scientists has created a new kind of ion channel based on short carbon nanotubes, which can be inserted into synthetic bila...

RF heating of magnetic nanoparticles improves thawing of cryopreserved biomaterials

Oct 27, 2014 (SPX)

Successful techniques for cryopreserving bulk biomaterials and organ systems would transform current approaches to transplantation and regenerative medicine. Ho...

Electronics industry gets 2 ways to snoop on self-organizing molecules

Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)

A few short years ago, the idea of a practical manufacturing process based on getting molecules to organize themselves in useful nanoscale shapes seemed ... wel...

Special UO microscope captures defects in nanotubes

Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)

University of Oregon chemists have devised a way to see the internal structures of electronic waves trapped in carbon nanotubes by external electrostatic charge...

Electric charge along microbial nanowires imaged

Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)

The claim by microbiologist Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that the microbe Geobacter produces tiny electrical wires, ca...

Nanoparticles get a magnetic handle

Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)

A long-sought goal of creating particles that can emit a colorful fluorescent glow in a biological environment, and that could be precisely manipulated into pos...

Solid nanoparticles can deform like a liquid

Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)

A surprising phenomenon has been found in metal nanoparticles: They appear, from the outside, to be liquid droplets, wobbling and readily changing shape, while ...

DNA nano-foundries cast custom-shaped metal nanoparticles

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have unveiled a new method to form tiny 3D metal nanoparticles in ...

Smallest world record has 'endless possibilities' for bio-nanotechnology

Oct 10, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists from the University of Leeds have taken a crucial step forward in bio-nanotechnology, a field that uses biology to develop new tools for science, tec...

Nanoparticles Break the Symmetry of Light

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

Nanoparticles can emit light into ultra-thin glass fibres. Physicists at the Vienna University of Technology have now managed to select the direction of the lig...

Fast, cheap nanomanufacturing

Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)

Luis Fernando Velasquez-Garcia's group at MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) develops dense arrays of microscopic cones that harness electrostatic...

Penn Team Studies Nanocrystals by Passing Them Through Tiny Pores

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

An interdisciplinary team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has now applied a cutting-edge technique for rapid gene sequencing toward measuring other na...

Researchers develop transparent nanoscintillators for radiation detection

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

A University of Texas at Arlington research team says recently identified radiation detection properties of a light-emitting nanostructure built in their lab co...

All directions are not created equal for nanoscale heat sources

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

Thermal considerations are rapidly becoming one of the most serious design constraints in microelectronics, especially on submicron scale lengths. A study by re...

Nanoparticles give up forensic secrets

Oct 03, 2014 (SPX)

A group of researchers from Switzerland has thrown light on the precise mechanisms responsible for the impressive ability of nanoparticles to detect fingermarks...