Nano News & Events

Watching fluid flow at nanometer scales: Researchers find that tiny nanowires can lift liquids as effectively as tubes

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
Imagine if you could drink a glass of water just by inserting a solid wire into it and sucking on it as though it were a soda straw. It turns out that if you were tiny enough, that method would work j...
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Special Nanoparticles Improve Human Immune Response against Cancer

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences produced a cancer vaccine by using liposome cationic nanoparticles.
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Iranian, Dutch Scientists Produce Polymeric Nanoparticles Containing Hepatitis B Vaccine

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in association with experts from Leiden/Amsterdam Medical Research Centre and the Netherlands Vaccine Institute obtained the technology...
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Biological transistor enables computing within living cells, Stanford study says

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
When Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control information. ENIAC, the first modern computer developed in th...
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3rd Thailand-Korea Nanobiotechnology Joint Research Meeting opens

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
The 3rd Thailand - Korea Nanobiotechnology Joint Research Meeting opened this morning with Prof. Sirirurg Songsivilai, NANOTEC Executive Director presenting the Opening Remarks. According to Prof. Sir...
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Modified Natural Nano Biopolymers Utilized to Remove Dye from Textile Wastewater

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
ranian researchers at Amir Kabir University of Technology and Institute for Color Science and Technology produced a bio-adsorbent with very high performance for the removal of dye from textile wastewa...
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Inorganic materials display massive and instantaneous swelling and shrinkage

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
The first observation of massive swelling and shrinkage of inorganic layered materials like a biological cell provides insights into the production of two-dimensional crystals.
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End of the Road for Roadrunner: Once the World’s Fastest Supercomputer; Central to the Success of Stockpile Stewardship

Nanotech-Now - April 2, 2013 - 7:45am
Roadrunner, the first supercomputer to break the once-elusive petaflop barrier—one million billion calculations per second—will be decommissioned on Sunday, March 31.
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Nanoparticles Combined with Light Reverses Rusting

Nanotech-Now - April 1, 2013 - 1:56pm
Research out of the University of Michigan may have developed a method for reversing the process of rusting. But perhaps the more important potential for the development, which involves exposing coppe...
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Iranian Scientists Use Nanotechnology for Waterproofing Building Materials

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers waterproofed building materials with very high efficiency by using the green and noncorrosive heteropoly acid catalyst.
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Precision Piezo Positioning Stages for High Resolution Microscopy by PI

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
PI (Physik Instrumente) LP offers a large variety of piezo-driven precision positioners for high resolution microscope applications.
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Rice's Laura Segatori wins NSF CAREER award: Engineering researcher creating new tools to study Parkinson's disease

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
Some human cells forget to empty their trash bins, and when the garbage piles up, it can lead to Parkinson's disease and other genetic and age-related disorders. Scientists don't yet understand why th...
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Even graphene has weak spots: Rice, Tsinghua theorists find junctions in polycrystalline graphene sap strength of super material

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
Graphene, the single-atom-thick form of carbon, has become famous for its extraordinary strength. But less-than-perfect sheets of the material show unexpected weakness, according to researchers at Ric...
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SUNY, SUNY's CNSE, CNSE CMOST, Trinity Alliance and Public Libraries Partner for National 'NanoDays' 2013: Weeklong series of educational events, hands-on experiments, and exciting activities will introduce kids of all ages to the emerging science of nan

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
In support of Governor Andrew Cuomo's educational blueprint in providing world-class opportunities to encourage our next generation of innovators amid New York's growing nanotechnology sector, SUNY's...
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Iran Produces Nano-Radiomedicines to Diagnose Cancerous Tumors

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
Iranian researchers produced new nano-radiopharmaceuticals with the ability to accumulate in fibrosarcoma tumor for the timely diagnosis of tumors and to take images from them.
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Imaging methodology reveals nano details not seen before: Understanding nanoparticles at atomic scale in 3 dimensions could improve materials

Nanotech-Now - March 31, 2013 - 7:45am
A team of scientists from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Northwestern University has produced 3-D images and videos of a tiny platinum nanoparticle at atomic resolution that reve...
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New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight

Nanotech-Now - March 29, 2013 - 7:45am
A Stanford team has designed an entirely new form of cooling panel that works even when the sun is shining. Such a panel could vastly improve the daylight cooling of buildings, cars and other structur...
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Asylum Research Appoints Amir Moshar to West Coast US Technical Sales

Nanotech-Now - March 29, 2013 - 7:45am
As part of its ongoing expansion, Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, has appointed Amir Moshar for West Coast US Technical Sales. Amir has been with Asylum for over nine years, holding va...
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NRL Develops Polymer Nanofibers for Chemical and Biological Decontamination

Nanotech-Now - March 29, 2013 - 7:45am
Chemical and biological threats pose a significant concern not only to the modern warfighter but an ever-increasing number of individuals and groups. This threat is compounded by the persistence of th...
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Iranian Scientists Use Optimized Nanofibers to Measure Toxic Heavy Metals

Nanotech-Now - March 29, 2013 - 7:45am
In a research conducted to determine the effective parameters on nanofibers adsorbents, Iranian researchers from Islamic Azad University succeeded in designing and optimizaing modified acrylonitrile n...
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