US Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) experts announce the development of a technique that induces nanoscale crystal rods to self-assemble into uni-, bi-, and three-dimensional structures at the macroscopic scale.
The achievement is extremely important, especially consid... |
2 February 2012
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A group of investigators at the Rice University announces the development of a new medical technique that could potentially forward the fight against cancer by a few decades. Their approach revolves around introducing as many as 2 million gold nanorods inside tumor cells.
These nanorods have an amazing propriety, wh... |
16 November 2011
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A group of physicists and nanotechnologists at the Rice University announces the discovery of a remarkable new material, which comes in the shape of gold nanorods. The tiny bars can be arranged as a belt, providing investigators with new and exciting ways of manipulating light.
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14 October 2011
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A group of scientists from the United States announced the development of a new type of metamaterial, that is capable of bending both light and itself, opening up the way for a new host of applications, such as advanced camouflages. The achievement is significant because it operates in the developing field of metamat... |
8 November 2010
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A variety of drug-resistant viruses may have just found their match, researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) say. Working in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Buffalo, the experts managed to devise a new means of delivering a drug payload to cells that relies on using... |
25 May 2010
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Experts announce the development of what they refer to as micro-carpets, arrays of silicon nanorods that could be used as solar cells in the very near future. Their creators reveal that the new structures are so efficient at converting light into electricity that they could lower the price of solar cells based on the... |
15 February 2010
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Scientists at the Oregon State University (OSU) have recently announced the creation of a new type of “plasmonic nanorod metamaterial,” which relies on the power of small, gold nanorods to create advanced nanosensors. The new devices could have a wide array of applications in fields ranging from medicine ... |
14 October 2009
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Creating the best possible reactants and catalysts is the basic step in any chemical reaction, as long as experts know what they are trying to obtain. In recent years, chemists have noticed that nanoparticles featuring both platinum and gold make for an exquisite catalyst in a variety of chemical reactions related to... |
1 September 2009
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Zinc oxide has been in use in the nanotechnology industry since its early days, and researchers in Saudi Arabia have now devised a non-toxic and environmentally friendly method of producing it en masse. In a paper published in the International Journal of Nanoparticles, the scientists show that this class of nanopart... |
24 August 2009
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Standard-sized DVDs and BluRay discs could soon be made obsolete at their tens of gigabytes of data storage capacities, by a new, highly expected type of storage medium, which is currently under development in Australia. Rather than encoding the data stream in just two dimensions, such as in conventional systems, the... |
21 May 2009
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Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have again proved their genius recently, when they have created a new method of targeting cancer tumors directly inside a patient's body. It's long been known that heat is one of the phenomena that can significantly hinder the growth of a tumor, and... |
5 May 2009
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According to scientists in the field, one of the basic requirements for advancing the 3D-chip technology is growing appropriate nanorods, which are the basic components of these types of circuits. These products have to be as “sticky” and slim as possible, so as to fit more of them in a tight place, witho... |
18 March 2009
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Sarah Tolbert, from the University of California at Los Angeles, US, together with Richard Kaner and other colleagues have developed a super-hard material that is tough enough to scratch diamond. Until now, diamond has been the hardest natural material known to humans and the third hardest known material after the ... |
21 April 2007
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