Nanoswitches Toggled by Light November 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Microscopic fissures in a tiny crystal open and close—on command. Researchers led by Ahmed H. Zewail successfully used ultrafast electron microscopy (UEM) to observe nanoscopic structures at their “exercises”, as they report ... | |
Astrotechnology Brings Nanoparticle Probes Into Sharper Focus March 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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While pondering the challenges of distinguishing one nanosize probe image from another in a mass of hundreds or thousands of nanoprobes, two investigators at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology made an ... | |
Silicon nanoparticles enhance performance of solar cells August 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Placing a film of silicon nanoparticles onto a silicon solar cell can boost power, reduce heat and prolong the cell’s life, researchers now report. | |
 Nanoscale imaging reveals unexpected behaviors in high-temperature superconductors May 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Recent discoveries regarding the physics of ceramic superconductors may help improve scientists' understanding of resistance-free electrical power. | |
Nano World: Super-insulating frozen smoke October 04, 2005 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The world's best thermal insulators, aerogels made of necklaces of nanometer-sized beads, are starting to find their way into flexible, lightweight sheets in everything from attack helicopters to snowboarding jackets. | |
Double-Duty Nanoparticles Overcome Drug Resistance in Tumors June 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy. In fact, research suggests strongly that multidrug resistant cancer cells that remain alive after chemotherapy are responsible for the reappearance of tumors ... | |
Nanobubbles Deliver Targeted Cancer Drugs Using Ultrasound July 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A new targeted drug delivery method uses ultrasound to image tumors, while also releasing the drug from "nanobubbles" into the tumor. | |
 Yale scientists use nanotechnology to fight E. coli August 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can kill bacteria like the common pathogen E. coli by severely damaging their cell walls, according to a recent report from Yale researchers in the American Chemical ... | |
Scientists reveal DNA-enzyme interaction with first ever real time footage September 17, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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For the first time scientists have been able to film, in real time, the nanoscale interaction of an enzyme and a DNA strand from an attacking virus. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have used a revolutionary Scanning ... | |
Researchers go nano, natural and green October 31, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In 2002, U.S. farmers harvested 2.7 billion bushels of soybeans. Last year in Missouri, farmers harvested 194 million bushels of soybeans worth about $1.2 billion. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia ... | |
New process makes nanofibers in complex shapes and unlimited lengths January 30, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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The continuous fabrication of complex, three-dimensional nanoscale structures and the ability to grow individual nanowires of unlimited length are now possible with a process developed by researchers at the University of ... | |
 Nanoscale tool allows scientists to study membrane proteins one at a time March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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In biology, as in construction, it’s all about having tools that fit the job. Researchers at Rockefeller University have now created a tiny tool, more than 10,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human ... | |
 Team develops novel method for nanostructured polymer thin films September 14, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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All researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs (chemically distinct polymers linked together) in order ... | |
Radio waves fire up nanotubes embedded in tumors, destroying liver cancer November 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Cancer cells treated with carbon nanotubes can be destroyed by non-invasive radio waves that heat up the nanotubes while sparing untreated tissue, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ... | |
 Inside a Quantum Dot: Tracking Electrons at Trillionths of a Second November 23, 2005 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Researchers at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) have developed a new machine that can reveal how electrons behave inside a single nano-object. The results from initial tests on pyramidal ... | |
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