Nanotech-Now

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences published Nanomedicine Journal in English on the applications of nanotechnology in medicine, pharmaceutics, and basic medical sciences.

The municipality of Tehran used traffic nanopaints produced by Pishgaman Fanavari Asia Company on the surface of the passages in Niyayesh Tunnel, the longest tunnel in Iran.

Iranian researchers ranked 8th in the world by publishing 3,512 nanotechnology-related ISI indexed articles in 2012, the latest statistics in StatNano database said.

Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally.

Nanoparticles are versatile harbingers of hope: They can serve as active medical agents or contrast media just as well as electronic storage media or reinforcement for structural materials. Researcher...

Identifying the mysterious mechanism underlying high-temperature superconductivity (HTS) remains one of the most important and tantalizing puzzles in physics. This remarkable phenomenon allows electri...

The $175K, 2013 Sustainable Valley iGrant is a grant designed to bring new technology or new technology-based businesses to life by providing funding, business support, equipment, facilities, and expe...

Anticipated applications include communication between processors on a single chip and the creation of networks of wireless nanosensors. This is one of the innovations that the UPC will be showcasing...

Silicon nanocrystals have a size of a few nanometers and possess a high luminous potential. Scientists of KIT and the University of Toronto/Canada have now succeeded in manufacturing silicon-based lig...

Atmospheric aerosol particles affect our climate by slowing down the global warming. After years of studying the international research group led by Academy Professor Markku Kulmala from the Universit...

Researchers at UCLA report that they have refined a method they previously developed for capturing and analyzing cancer cells that break away from patients' tumors and circulate in the blood. With the...

FINDINGS: Electromagnetic devices, from power drills to smart-phones, require an electric current to create the magnetic fields that allow them to function. But with smaller devices, efficiently deli...

The Hon. Professor Heneri Dzinotyiweyi, Zimbabwe minister of science and technology development, visited Buffalo on Tuesday, Feb. 19, to tour two University at Buffalo research facilities and discuss...

Hyaluronic acid is a common ingredient in cosmetic creams, eye drops or injections improving the functioning of joints with damaged cartilage. Now, not only are scientists able to produce nanofibers f...

Imec demonstrated a low-power (20µW), intra-cardiac signal processing chip for the detection of ventricular fibrillation at this week's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2013) in Sa...

Viscotek multi-detector gel permeation chromatography (GPC) systems for highly productive, information rich, polymer characterization will take center stage on the Malvern Instruments booth at the 201...

SEMATECH today announced that Poongsan, a leading producer of annealing furnaces, has joined its Front End Processes (FEP) program, and will work with SEMATECH to explore high-pressure anneal (HPA) t...

Effective February 15, 2013 Raith and Vistec Lithography announce that they unite their worldwide activities for electron and ion beam lithography and nanofabrication instruments to form one solution...

CEA-Leti today announced that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology.

"Anisotropic Thermal Processing of Polymer Nanocomposites via the Photothermal Effect of Gold Nanorods" Authors: Jason Bochinski, Laura Clarke, Joe Tracy, Somsubrha Maity, Krystian Kozek and Wei-Ch...