NANO TECH - NANO DAILY

New device could cut costs on household products, pharmaceuticals

Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)

Sometimes cost saving comes in nanoscale packages. A new procedure that thickens and thins fluid at the micron level could save consumers and manufacturers mone...

Nanotechnology imaging breakthrough

Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)

A team of researchers has made a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they develop...

Surface diffusion plays a key role in defining the shapes of catalytic nanoparticles

Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)

Controlling the shapes of nanometer-sized catalytic and electrocatalytic particles made from noble metals such as platinum and palladium may be more complicated...

Imaging methodology reveals nano details not seen before

Mar 29, 2013 (SPX)

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 nan...

Scientists develop innovative twists to DNA nanotechnology

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

In a new discovery that represents a major step in solving a critical design challenge, Arizona State University Professor Hao Yan has led a research team to pr...

Nanoparticles show promise as inexpensive, durable and effective scintillators

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

A team of industrial and university researchers has shown that nanoparticles with sizes smaller than 10 nanometers - approximately the width of a cell membrane ...

Glass-blowers at a nano scale

Mar 26, 2013 (SPX)

Have you ever thrown into the fire - even if you shouldn't have - an empty packet of crisps? The outcome is striking: the plastic shrivels and bends into itself...

Quantum computers counting on carbon nanotubes

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

Carbon nanotubes can be used as quantum bits for quantum computers. A study by physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) has shown how nanotubes ...

Smallest Vibration Sensor in the Quantum World

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Carbon nanotubes and magnetic molecules are considered building blocks of future nanoelectronic systems. Their electric and mechanical properties play an import...

Researchers create nanoscale spinning magnetic droplets

Mar 20, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers have successfully created a magnetic soliton - a nano-sized, spinning droplet that was first theorized 35 years ago. These solitons have implication...

New technique could improve optical devices

Mar 07, 2013 (SPX)

A multi-university research team has used a new spectroscopic method to gain a key insight into how light is emitted from layered nanomaterials and other thin f...

Silver nanoparticles may adversely affect environment

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

In experiments mimicking a natural environment, Duke University researchers have demonstrated that the silver nanoparticles used in many consumer products can h...

New taxonomy of platinum nanoclusters

Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)

Physicists have gained new insights into the inner intricacies of the structural variations of metallic nanoclusters. This work by Luca Pavan, Cono Di Paola and...

Scientists delve deeper into carbon nanotubes

Feb 25, 2013 (SPX)

The outer walls of both double- and triple-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) protect the innermost tubes from interacting with their environment. That is the key f...

Forging a new periodic table using nanostructures

Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)

Northwestern University's Chad A. Mirkin, a world-renowned leader in nanotechnology research and its application, has developed a completely new set of building...

Nano-machines for 'bionic proteins'

Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)

Physicists of the University of Vienna together with researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna developed nano-machines which...

Team Creates MRI for the Nanoscale

Feb 19, 2013 (SPX)

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals details of living tissues, diseased organs and tumors inside the body without x-rays or surgery. What if the same techn...

Artificial atoms allow for magnetic resonance on individual cells

Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), in collaboration with the CSIC and Macquarie University in Australia, have developed a new technique...

Giving transplanted cells a nanotech checkup

Feb 13, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have devised a way to detect whether cells previously transplanted into a living animal are alive or dead, an innovation they say i...

Boston College researchers' unique nanostructure produces novel 'plasmonic halos'

Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)

Using the geometric and material properties of a unique nanostructure, Boston College researchers have uncovered a novel photonic effect where surface plasmons ...