Nano News & Events

New research from Harvard University helps to explain how waterborne bacteria can colonize rough surfaces—even those that have been designed to resist water.

NASA's new project to retrieve and study a small asteroid represents an opportunity to do things a new way in space, says Deep Space Industries. NASA's asteroid plans, if coupled with private sector...

Nanometrics Incorporated (Nasdaq:NANO), a leading provider of advanced process control metrology and inspection systems, will release its first quarter 2013 financial results after market close on Apr...

Motion of cluster atoms tracked using electron microscope.

Phenomenon could come in handy for sterilizing medical instruments and purifying water, among other applications.

Sol Voltaics today unveiled SolInk™, an economical nanomaterial that promises to increase the efficiency of crystalline silicon or thin film solar modules by up to 25 percent or more, leading to solar...

Sustainable Chemistry Imagine a car coated with a surface that can simultaneously capture and store energy from the sun's rays. It would solve one of the main problems associated with solar cells...

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being applied in the development of future diagnostic and theranostic solutions for early diagnosis, drug delivery and treatment of can...

JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, are happy to announce that registration is now open for the fifth internati...

A major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressure has been made by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN).

A team of researchers has made a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they developed a way to get around the severe distor...

The nanoparticle drug BIND-014 is effective against multiple solid tumors, according to results generated by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Scottsdale Healthcare, and present...

As demand for computing and communication capacity surges, the global communication infrastructure struggles to keep pace, since the light signals transmitted through fiber-optic lines must still be p...

n an effort that will accelerate commercialization of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology and the development of next-generation transistors, SEMATECH announced today that Intermolecular,...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has today announced the appointment of two new co-editors-in-chief for its Micro & Nano Letters journal. Professor Peter Dobson, specialising in the...

The technology to produce gold nanoparticles biologically was successfully obtained by the Iranian researchers at Islamic Azad University, the Zanjan Branch.

Some people thought the bestselling Strategy of the Dolphin was about dolphins. IT WASN'T! It was about what committed humans can do with a powerful new "what works" psychology and an ever-evolving pe...

Scientific research developed through an innovative fund will help find solutions to combat world hunger and poverty. Today, Lois Brown, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooper...

What does it take to launch two major international HIV/AIDS research initiatives involving the University at Buffalo and the University of Zimbabwe? It requires attention to issues as diverse as w...

In recent years, many popular cancer treatments have been using nano, that is, tiny particles of polymers or carbon-based materials to transport chemotherapy drugs to tumors in a way that specifically...