Nanotech-Now

- European patent granted for nanoparticle-drug conjugates - MagForce expands patent portfolio

Nanotechnologies and stem-cell technology are areas in which Chinese and US companies can have significant cooperation, a delegation of business executives from China and their American hosts agreed. ...

Improving our understanding of the human brain, gathering insights into the origin of our universe through the detection of gravitational waves, or optimizing the precision of GPS systems- all are dif...

Thermoelectric materials can be used to turn waste heat into electricity or to provide refrigeration without any liquid coolants, and a research team from the University of Michigan has found a way to...

The professor of Physical Chemistry at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) de Castellón, Spain, Juan M. Andrés Bort has participated in the discovery of a new material and in the article "Direct in situ obs...

Pixelligent Technologies, producer of PixClear™, the leading nanocrystal dispersions for demanding applications in the electronics, semiconductor, and industrial markets, announced today that it close...

"Injectable Nano-Network for Glucose-Mediated Insulin Delivery" Authors: Zhen Gu, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Alex Aimetti, Yunlong Zhang, O...

Owner of Aspen's newest ski shop Miller Sports Aspen is known for bringing the worlds hottest ski fashion to Aspen and will continue to do so in his new location with designer ski wear from Goldwin Sk...

ANF Technology Ltd., the manufacturer of NAFEN™, the first ever superior-grade alumina nanofiber to be produced and made available at commercially viable, industrial volumes, will be exhibiting at the...

A Rice University laboratory's cagey strategy turns negatively charged carbon nanotubes into liquid crystals that could enhance the creation of fibers and films.

Combining wonder material graphene with other stunning one-atom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices, scientists have revealed.

ACS Publications is pleased to announce the launch of Environmental Science & Technology Letters (ES&T Letters). The new journal will accelerate the pace of research across the environmental field by...

This blog has chronicled many nanomaterials suggested for cleaning up oil spills over the years, with the most recent being an aerogel developed in China that the researchers claim to be the lightest...

Metal elements and molecules interact in the body but visualizing them together has always been a challenge. Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies in Japan have developed a n...

Nanostart-holding Lumiphore, Inc has announced that Algeta ASA, a company focused on the development of novel targeted cancer therapeutics, has exercised its option to take an exclusive worldwide lice...

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ: ARWR), a targeted therapeutics company, today announced that it will report its financial results for the fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 31, 2013, on Th...

An old, somewhat passé, trick used to purify protein samples based on their affinity for water has found new fans at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where materials scientis...

Scientists at Princeton University used off-the-shelf printing tools to create a functional ear that can "hear" radio frequencies far beyond the range of normal human capability.

CRAIC Technologies, a leading manufacturer of UV-visible-NIR microspectrometers, today released its Auriga™ microspectroscopy and imaging software package. Written specifically for Window 8®, this so...

By using light, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have manipulated the quantum state of a single atomic-sized defect in diamond -- the nitrogen-vacancy center -- in a method that not only allows for mor...