Showing posts with label nanotechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nanotechnology. Show all posts
Monday, June 11, 2012

Watching Tiny 'Living' Machines Self-Assemble

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Vallée-Bélisle and Michnick have developed a new approach to visualize how proteins assemble, which may also significantly aid our understan...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

New 'Frozen Smoke' May Improve Robotic Surgery, Energy Storage

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UCF associate professor Lei Zhai worked with fellow professors Saiful Khondaker, Sudipta Seal and Quanfang Chen. (Credit: Jason Greene) Nano...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

Taking Cues From Medical Tech, Big Oil Could Use Nanoparticles to Hunt for Leftover Crude in Spent Wells

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Using Nanotech to Reach Every Drop of Oil Flcelloguy via Wikimedia From Popular Science: You can't throw a rock in the realm of biote...

Can Nanotechnology Save Lives?

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Polymer fronds a few thousand nanometers long wrap around even tinier plymer spheres. Felice C. Frankel From The Smithsonian: Harvard profes...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Metal Nano-Particles Suspend Human Cells In Magnetic Scaffolding For Easy Organ Manufacturing

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Image: Cells Floating In a Magnetic Field: Nano3D Biosciences, via Technology Review From Popular Science: While scientists have become ...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Diamond Nanowire Device Could Lead To New Class Of Diamond Nanomaterials

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A diamond-based nanowire device. Researchers used a top-down nanofabrication technique to embed color centers into a variety of machined str...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Nanoparticles To Clean Drinking Water

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Credit: iStockphoto From Cosmos: BEIJING: Scientists have developed nanotechnology that purifies water using only visible light, it continue...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

World's Smallest Hot Rod Made Using Nanotechnology

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The molecular motorcar on the left, called a "nanodragster," could spur new nanotechnologies such as factories that build products...
Saturday, January 9, 2010

'Grey Goo' Food Laced With Nanoparticles Could Swamp Britain

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Photo: Prince Charles derided nanoparticles as 'grey goo' food From The Daily Mail: Britain is on the brink of a massive expansion ...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Nanocrystals Create An Insulator Better Than Pure Vacuum

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Better Vacuum Thermos Ain't no party like a lunar tea party: an Apollo astronaut holds a thermos for collecting lunar regolith NASA F...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Nanoparticle Protects Oil In Foods From Oxidation, Spoilage

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From Science Daily: Science Daily (Dec. 9, 2009) — Using a nanoparticle from corn, a Purdue University scientist has found a way to lengthen...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Single-Atom Transistor Discovered

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a) Colored scanning electron microscope image of the measured device. Aluminum top gate is used to induce a two-dimensional electron layer a...
Sunday, December 6, 2009

Nanowires Key To Future Transistors, Electronics

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Researchers are closer to using tiny devices called semiconducting nanowires to create a new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more p...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Scientists Create The World's Smallest 'Snowman'

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The snowman is made of two tiny tin beads, normally used to calibrate electron microscope lenses, which were welded together with platinum ...
Thursday, December 3, 2009

First Metallic Nanoparticles Resistant to Extreme Heat

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From U.S. News & World Report/National Science Foundation: PITTSBURGH—A University of Pittsburgh team overcame a major hurdle plaguing t...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Nanoparticles Could Damage DNA At A Distance, Study Suggests

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Doses of nanoparticles used in the study were higher than anything a human might be exposed to. Photograph: Getty Images From The Guardian: ...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Nanoparticle Coating Prevents Freezing Rain Buildup

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An aluminum plate glazed with Gao's superhydrophobic coating (left) repelling the supercooled water. For the uncoated plate (right), the...
Friday, October 23, 2009

Advance In 'Nano-Agriculture:' Tiny Stuff Has Huge Effect On Plant Growth

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Tomato seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes (right) sprouted and grew faster than unexposed seeds (left). From Science Daily: Science Daily (Oc...
Monday, October 19, 2009

Labs-On-A-Chip That You Can Shrink To Fit

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Shrinking down to size (Image: Maggie Bartlett, NHGRI) From New Scientist: INTEL's latest microchip technology has created transistors 2...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

The Era of Nanoparticle Drugs Begins With Erection Cream

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Photo: Nanoparticles filled with nitric oxide Courtesy of Albert Einstein College of Medicine From Discover Magazine: Tiny drug-carrying ba...