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A major breakthrough could deal with the panic of electric vehicles' owner when it comes to keeping their car on the road for a longer period of time. Scientists might rely on nanotechnology to innovate the battery, in order to allow an average hybrid to reach its destination within the next 500 miles, after jus... |
9 November 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Stanford University associate professor of materials science and engineering Yi Cui and his team were recently able to develop a superior rechargeable lithium battery cathode, a device which they say contains carbon nanofibers that are hollow on the inside, and coated with sulfur.
In addition, a new electrolyte a... |
5 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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New generations of nanomaterials could be used to harvest more energy out of the wasted heat many electrical devices and industrial processes create. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) scientists have recently developed such a material, which they say works in a very efficient manner.
Waste heat appears wherev... |
28 September 2011
09:31 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers in the United States announces the development of a new instrument for treating heart attack victims. The device is a patch made out of carbon nanotubes (CNT), and its effects are very beneficial to patients, the team behind the study reveals. Working together with colleagues in India, ... |
20 May 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Scientists with the Arizona State University (ASU) Biodesign Institute (BI) were recently able to use a technique called DNA origami to create two- and three-dimensional structures very similar to those that can be found in nature.The capacity to design and built miniature architectural forms at scales no larger than... |
15 April 2011
05:36 GMT |
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A group of Japanese experts has recently developed a new mechanism for delivering drugs inside the human body. The method relies on the use of nanoparticles to deliver chemicals inside tumor cells, by sneaking the drugs past the cancer cells' defenses. The technique was demonstrated to work even on the most drug... |
7 January 2011
04:47 GMT |
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Five new US, European and Japanese companies joined Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint to create anti-microbial surfaces inspired by the marine life, for use on ships, lenses and medical devices.The sources of inspiration for the project will be dolphins and pilo... |
28 December 2010
10:17 GMT |
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Researchers in Mexico and the United States might have just created the smallest Christmas tree decorations ever – 25 nanometers in diameter, over 100 million times smaller than the usual tree balls.
Xavier E. Guerrero-Dib, a materials engineer at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and coll... |
4 December 2010
04:25 GMT |
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With the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics going to graphene research, it stands to reason that this material will start making the object of many studies. But a collaboration of researchers is already ahead of the pack, having started a large-scale investigation into the material earlier this year. The group's main m... |
13 October 2010
03:45 GMT |
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Official with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) announce that they have just awarded two new grants for researching the impact of nanotechnology, totaling $12.5 million over the next 5 years.The largest part of the new funds will go towards investigating the ethical, legal, economic and policy implications of ... |
13 October 2010
03:08 GMT |
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A new state-of-the-art Western Institute of Nanotechnology on Green Engineering and Metrology (WIN-GEM) will be built at the UCLA, officials from the university announced. The facility, which will support research into advanced energy conservation technologies, will be responsible for innovating microelectronics and ... |
7 October 2010
03:49 GMT |
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EnSol AS in collaboration with University of Leicester and an international team of scientists and industrialists will meet for the development of a new revolutionary technology that supplies electrical power.This new thin film solar cell technology should be developed commercially by 2016, but for now, the company i... |
10 August 2010
09:24 GMT |
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Ever since the field of nanotechnology began developing, researchers have recognized the importance that these small particles had in fighting conditions such as cancer. Destroying tumors by using such an approach is possible, but a lot of care needs to be exercised in order to ensure that as little healthy tissue as... |
10 August 2010
03:21 GMT |
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Researchers at the D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, in Mumbai, India, wrote in the International Journal of Nuclear Desalination that several nanotechnology water purification techniques are currently being tested, are some are used already. “Water treatment devices that incorporate nanoscale materials are ... |
28 July 2010
10:11 GMT |
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Nanotechnology was necessary in order for this cement to exist. The CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas working with the Spanish company Tecnalia, developed two patents that allowed the creation of this environmental-friendly cement. Traditional cement is obtained by limestone's calcina... |
16 July 2010
09:03 GMT |
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The new and promising treatment method involves mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs). These particles can store and deliver chemotherapeutic drugs that suppress cancer tumors in mice. Researchers at the UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center also showed that these part... |
9 July 2010
11:21 GMT |
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The medical dressing will release antibiotics from nanocapsules, activated by the presence of disease-causing pathogenic bacteria, targeting treatment before the infection aggravates. The advanced wound dressing will also change color when the antibiotics are released, thus alerting doctors that an infection is prese... |
8 July 2010
02:51 GMT |
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Oftentimes, the drugs doctors inject in cancer patients are rendered inefficient, and exert few of their capabilities on the cancer cells themselves. This happens mainly for two reasons – either they can't get to the tumor site, or they are attacked and dismembered by the immune system. This obstacle has c... |
3 June 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Scientists have recently developed a new type of material that could in the near future lead to an entirely new paradigm shift in the way we choose to protect various sensitive equipment, objects and environments. Spray-on glass is a substance that, when applied to something, creates a very thin protective layer, tha... |
16 February 2010
15:51 GMT |
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Researchers at the Harvard University have recently finished developing a new type of diamond-based nanowire devices, which hold great promise for the creation of nanomaterials based on the strong carbon compound. These materials could, in turn, be used in quantum cryptography and computing, as well as imaging method... |
15 February 2010
04:36 GMT |
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Researchers know that one of the keys that would allow for the widespread use of nanotechnology, and for the production of complex nanostructures would be the creation of large-scale DNA origami. These constructs can tie nanostructures together in intricate patterns, based on chemical attraction between its four base... |
3 February 2010
19:01 GMT |
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Nanotechnology is one of the fastest growing fields of research today, with numerous research groups and thousands of scientists working on it every day. But no country has developed any comprehensive set of regulations aimed at keeping researchers safe from the hazards related to these investigations to date. Theref... |
1 February 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Smartphones are already an indispensable commodity to a lot of people, and have become an integrated part of their daily lives. Some use them to surf the Web and post updates on Facebook and Twitter, while others use facilities such as document viewers and editor, and slideshow presentations. But now, researchers at ... |
28 November 2009
03:58 GMT |
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In their quest for ever-smaller and ever-faster computer chips and transistors, scientists have, over the past few years, dedicated enormous amounts of time, energy, and money to producing electronics at the smallest scale possible. This has gone all well and good for some years, but now this field of research is app... |
13 November 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a number of groundbreaking discoveries have been made that could easily change the ways in which we look at producing electronics. Advancements have been registered on all fronts, including in nanotechnology (smaller wires), polymers (organic electronics), and, last but not least, materials. ... |
4 November 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Scientists at the Duke University have recently announced the development of a new type of nanoscale drug delivery system, which shows great promise for treating cancer. According to the experts, animal models that had developed cancer had their tumors annihilated by chemotherapy drugs loaded onto the new cells after... |
2 November 2009
02:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have recently announced the creation of a new type of microcapsules, similar to the ones used in carbon-free paper, but much improved. They add that the new design is a significant improvement from the other type of microcapsules that burst and release thei... |
29 October 2009
03:28 GMT |
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Nanotechnology is today perhaps the most promising research field in the world. In the future, scientists believe that a large number of innovations will be based on it, ranging from better solar sensors, to better computer and electronics devices, and better treatments for a large number of conditions. However, in o... |
22 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Rome, in Italy, proposed last year that small-scale motors might be powered by bacteria, an idea that caught on well in the scientific community, and spawned a number of follow-up studies. The physicists say that, in principle, if you attach self-propelling bacteria to a cog, then the mic... |
19 October 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Over the past few years, numerous and important advancements have been made in the battery industry, with scientists developing ever smaller and more effective devices for a wide range of applications. In fact, it was progress in the industry that allowed car manufacturers to ponder releasing all-electric vehicle lin... |
8 October 2009
13:41 GMT |
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According to a new scientific paper, published in the September 22nd issue of the respected scientific journal ACS Nano, experts at the University of Liverpool finally managed to discover what happened to nanoparticles after they were introduced in human cells. The study, which was funded by the Biotechnology and Bio... |
23 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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UltraFast Innovations GmbH is a joint initiative from German researchers at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), in Munich, and the Max Planck Society (MPS), which aims at providing research communities with dedicated optical systems, capable of keeping track of things as small as electrons moving from one ... |
17 September 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Micro- and nanotechnology are two of the fields of research with the largest following to date, as they hold the keys to creating the most advanced devices of the future, on principles that do not necessarily pertain to physics as we know it. From a certain level of miniaturization forward, interactions between parti... |
1 September 2009
11:03 GMT |
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The future of nanoengineering, and of any science involving the use of nanomaterials for that matter, is entirely dependent on tools that allow for precise measurements of the events unfolding at the nanoscale, while at the same time correcting errors that may appear in the process. Experts at the Georgia Institute o... |
2 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Despite the fact that numerous research teams around the globe are currently working to develop the best possible cloaking technology, the methods that exist at this point are very hard to achieve, cost a lot of money to operate, and are also unable to hide larger objects from view. But a breakthrough, achieved by ex... |
21 May 2009
09:44 GMT |
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Harvard Medical School (HMS) experts announced in the Wednesday issue of the scientific journal Nature that they'd managed to create 3-dimensional constructs in the lab, using nothing but pieces of DNA for the job. Their structures have been made in intricate shapes, and rely solely on the acid's ability to... |
21 May 2009
02:53 GMT |
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Experts at the Houston-based University of Texas Health Science Center (HSC) will have the honor of having their nano-fluidics experiments being ferried to orbit aboard NASA's delivery systems. The deal states that SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft, blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center, a part ... |
12 May 2009
10:15 GMT |
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The next step in administering antiviral drugs, especially for STDs, could be through the use of biodegradable nanoparticles, able to carry microRNA strands directly to the place of infection and deliver the tiny acid overtime. One day, the innovation, made possible by the efforts of a Yale research team, could resul... |
4 May 2009
10:01 GMT |
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According to a growing consent among academics in the United States, the country is ill-equipped to handle the emerging challenges of the 21st century, in terms of protecting both the environment and the safety and health off its citizens. That is to say, the existing agencies, far from being incapable, simply find i... |
28 April 2009
06:11 GMT |
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As the quest for the smallest material and basic components of matter accelerates, scientists around the world are currently faced with a more and more pressing issue – the lack of appropriate means of investigating single atoms and molecules. They require a tool that can detect even the smallest amounts of mov... |
27 April 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Over the past few years, a lot of time, money and effort have been directed towards making algae a viable source of alternative fuels, on account of the fact that some people are really interested in combating global warming and in offering the world replacements for coal, oil and natural gas. However, the amounts of... |
8 April 2009
06:14 GMT |
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At this point, there's no doubt in the minds of engineers that nanowires are the building material of the future, suited to construct everything from next-generation computer chips to the ominous space elevator to orbit. Still, before these goals become a reality, there are some painstaking details to work out, ... |
3 April 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Creating nanoparticles that have the ability to “guide” others into specifically designed positions is a thing that would undoubtedly open doors to the creation of a new class of devices. These future gadgets would have the ability to arrange themselves in the correct patterns inside spaces such as our ce... |
1 April 2009
09:42 GMT |
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The idea of linking up nanoparticles via the use of modified DNA is not a new one, and researchers have recently made some headway in that direction, when they have created pyramid-shaped structures made from the acid, with each of them housing a single nanoparticle. Now, it would seem that experts from the US Depart... |
31 March 2009
04:26 GMT |
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Applied physicists at Harvard University in Massachusetts, led by Federico Capasso, managed to set the groundwork for a new class of tiny electronic devices that will incorporate nanomechanics, to be applied in various areas of next-generation technological development. Basically, the team managed to figure out how t... |
8 January 2009
08:26 GMT |
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Endowing your average food package or beverage with electronics designed to monitor its temperature and store other useful information about the product seems a thing of the future at this point in time, but researchers worldwide, who are currently working on ways to print circuits directly on their substrate, ensure... |
6 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana, and the Catholic University of America, in Washington DC, managed to discover the mechanisms employed by the “nano-motors” inside viruses. This discovery is remarkable because it allows scientists to replicate, or even sabotage the engines,... |
30 December 2008
06:16 GMT |
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The potential that nanotechnology has on our daily lives is largely unnoticed by people in the United States and in some European countries, such as Austria, Italy and Ireland, where religion plays a larger role in society. The benefits of such a revolutionary way of looking at things are shadowed by millennia of rel... |
8 December 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Professor Tahir Cagin, from the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University, is one of the most renowned experts in nanotechnology and piezoelectricity in the world, having received multiple awards over the years, including the prestigious Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology. His work now fo... |
2 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Uber-fast computers operating 1,000 times the actual speed, 10 times more powerful magnifying microscopes, able to spy on the DNA directly, more efficient solar energy capturing devices, enhanced sensors or invisibility cloaks are only a few of the goals that the new optical science field promises to achieve. If prop... |
21 October 2008
06:27 GMT |
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