Nano World: Metal foams for catalysis June 15, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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Metal foams made of grains and pores only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide are lighter than Styrofoam, enough to float on water. The extraordinarily high surface areas these unprecedented foams possess suggest they ... | |
Nano World: Finger-sensitive sensor films June 13, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Devices comparable in sensitivity to human fingers, enabled by a novel film embedded with nanoparticles, could offer the first step toward giving robotics hands the delicacy of the human touch, experts told UPI's Nano World. | |
Wanted: Clothing that kills bacteria June 12, 2006 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Professors at Wilkes University are hoping to design a process that turns ordinary clothing into bacteria-killing apparel by use of nanotechnology. | |
Nano World: Nanoparticle balls for silicon June 09, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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An international team of university and industry scientists has discovered a way to improve nanoparticles used to make advanced circuits. These findings could help improve the reliable large-scale manufacture of high quality ... | |
Nano World: Water harvesting surfaces June 06, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Beetles that harvest water from desert air have inspired the creation of printable surfaces that improve on nature with the aid of glass nanoparticles. These surfaces could also help control the flow of microscopic amounts ... | |
FEI systems selected for Russian center June 05, 2006 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The FEI Company announced Monday that three of its systems have been selected as core enabling tools for a new Russian nanotechnology facility. | |
Nano World: Nanotube toxicity exams differ June 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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How toxic carbon nanotubes are on cells apparently depends on what lab tests are used to examine them, experts told UPI's Nano World. | |
Nano World: Superior nanowire transistors May 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Transistors made with semiconductor wires just nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can exceed the performance of current state-of-the-art silicon transistors by three or four times, experts tell UPI's Nano World. | |
Nano World: Nano-loaded wireless sensors May 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Devices the size of a dime armed with reprogrammable sensors, laden with nanoparticles and wirelessly networked with each other could help sniff the air for bombs and toxins on battlefields, experts tell UPI's Nano World. | |
In Brief: Gold nanoparticles might fight cancer May 22, 2006 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Alabama scientists are considering using gold nanoparticles to turn near-infrared laser light into a "thermal scalpel" of intense heat to kill tumor cells. | |
Groups challenge FDA on nanoparticles May 17, 2006 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been challenged on the way it regulates skin products with nanoparticle ingredients. | |
Nano World: Blood-compatible nanomaterial May 16, 2006 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Artificial kidneys and other medical devices could soon employ carbon nanotubes and other structures only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide made highly blood compatible via anticoagulants, experts told UPI's Nano World. | |
$100 M partnership to advance nanotech May 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A $100 million partnership has been made to create what collaborators consider will be the world's most powerful university-based supercomputing center. | |
Nano World: Nanofibers for heart cells May 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The heart function of rats following heart attacks can be improved using heart cells wrapped in organic fibers only nanometers or billionths of a meter long that are impregnated with growth hormones, experts tell UPI's Nano ... | |
Nano World: $30 billion in nano goods May 10, 2006 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Emerging nanotechnology made its way into more than $30 billion in manufactured goods in 2005, more than double the year before, experts tell UPI's Nano World. | |
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