Nanotech-Now

Humanity's interest in preserving animal skins dates to prehistory, but in the 21st century leather goods have become ubiquitous. Leather shoes, belts, jackets and handbags are part of many people's e...

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: XDSL) announced today that it will be attending and exhibiting at the New Jersey Technology Council (NJTC) Venture Conference being held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel i...

Nobel laureate Roger Tsien, PhD, will keynote Cedars-Sinai's March 15 and 16 Nanomedicine for Imaging and Treatment Conference, which will assemble a multidisciplinary group of nationally and internat...

An air-breathing bio-battery has been constructed by researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The core element providing the new power source w...

One of the main reasons that nanoparticles can boost the effectiveness of an anticancer drug while decreasing its toxicity is that they are able to accumulate at cancerous sites in the body through th...

High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is well-known for its role in protecting the body from developing coronary artery disease, but HDL also helps lymphomas and other cancers acquire the large amounts of ch...

Breast cancer patients with the so-called triple negative form of the disease have the lowest survival rate among all breast cancer patients, in large part because this type of cancer does not respond...

A new technique developed by University of Toronto Engineering Professor Ted Sargent and his research group could lead to significantly more efficient solar cells, according to a recent paper publishe...

Storage of renewable energy in form of hydrogen is a central topic of the Group Exhibit Hydrogen + Fuel Cells. Over 130 companies and research institutions from 20 countries will join Europe's largest...

CEA-Leti, a leading global center of advanced R&D in silicon photonics, will be at Booth 1136 during the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference...

he U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced today that the laboratory has granted AKHAN Technologies exclusive diamond semiconductor application licensing rights to breakthrou...

Los Alamos National Laboratory has named John Sarrao as the new Associate Director for Theory, Simulation, and Computation (ADTSC). Sarrao joined the Laboratory in 1997 as a technical staff member in...

In a step toward understanding and exploiting an exotic form of matter that has been sparking excitement for potential applications in a new genre of supercomputers, scientists are reporting the first...

Inspired by patents from the 1960's audio cassette recording industry, UvA chemists now developed a new Fischer-Tropsch catalyst. It can be used for the making of synthetic fuels from natural gas and...

NanoPhoSolar aims to develop nanophosphor down converting material which will be incorporated into coatings and polymer films for integration into new solar modules and retrofit of existing solar modu...

Small particles loaded with medicine could be a future weapon for cancer treatment. A recently-published study shows how nanoparticles can be formed to efficiently carry cancer drugs to tumor cells. A...

Officials at NanCogenics, Inc. announced today that Co-Founder Dr. Jim Klostergaard has been invited to present at the upcoming BioNanoMed 4th International Conference on Nanotechnology, Medicine and...

Bruker CAM division will be out in full force at Pittcon 2013, in Philadelphia, March 17-21. Bruker has delivered a range of truly innovative analytical instruments unmatched in their fields and able...

Dr Andrzej Kulik is a research associate in the Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter at the EPFL in Switzerland. Under the leadership of Professor Giovanni Dietler, the research activity of the...

Supporting Governor Andrew Cuomo's leadership in expanding educational opportunities that enhance New York's innovation-enabled economy, the SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), t...