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Light Touch: Controlling The Behavior Of Quantum Dots
Researchers from NIST and
the Joint Quantum Institute
have reported a new way to
fine-tune the light coming
from quantum dots by
... > full story
Breaking The 'Mucus Barrier' With A New Drug Delivery System
Chemical engineers have
broken the "mucus barrier,"
engineering the first
drug-delivery particles
capable of passing through
human mucus -- regarded by
... > full story
New 'Nano-positioners' May Have Atomic-scale Precision
Engineers have created a
tiny motorized positioning
device that has twice the
dexterity of similar devices
being developed for
applications that include
... > full story
Creating Unconventional Metals: Quantum Halfway House Between Magnet And Semiconductor Discovered
The semiconductor silicon
and the ferromagnet iron are
the basis for much of
mankind's technology, used
in everything from computers
... > full story
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Air-purifying Church Windows Were Early Nanotechnology
August 25, 2008 — Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, experts have ... > full story -
Optical Computing Closer To Reality
August 22, 2008 — Scientists have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to past the speed of light by altering the particle shape. Application of ... > full story -
True Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes Measured
August 21, 2008 — Carbon nanotubes' atomic structure should, in theory, give them mechanical and electrical properties far superior to most common materials. Unfortunately, theory and experiments have failed to ... > full story -
New Instrument To Control The Size Of Nanoclusters Could Lead To Reduced Pollution From Petroleum Products
August 21, 2008 — A new instrument enables researchers to make nanoclusters of 10 to 100 atoms with atomic precision. A new model of nanocatalysts of molybdenum sulfide is the first step in developing the next ... > full story -
Polymer Electric Storage, Flexible And Adaptable
August 21, 2008 — The proliferation of solar, wind and even tidal electric generation and the rapid emergence of hybrid electric automobiles demands flexible and reliable methods of high-capacity electrical storage. ... > full story -
Structure Of Gold Nanoparticles Solved
August 21, 2008 — Researchers have solved the structure of gold nanoparticles. Results of the study may yield important advances in medicine, biomolecule research and ... > full story -
Key Advance Toward 'Micro-spacecraft'
August 20, 2008 — Fleets of inexpensive, pint-sized spacecraft are one giant leap closer to lift off. Researchers describe a new, razor thin temperature-regulating film that brings this sci-fi vision of ... > full story -
'Point Of Care Diagnostics' In The Starting Blocks
August 20, 2008 — Tracking down cancer at a very early stage, studying cell growth, developing new medicines: future lab-on-a-chip systems will use nanoscale electrical fields to enable the detection and manipulation ... > full story -
Light Finds A Way -- Even Through White Paint: Specially-prepared Light Moves Through 'Open Channels'
August 19, 2008 — Materials such as milk, paper, white paint and tissue are opaque because they scatter light, not because they absorb it. But no matter how great the scattering, light is always able to get through ... > full story -
Self-assembling Polymer Arrays Improve Data Storage Potential
August 19, 2008 — A new manufacturing approach holds the potential to overcome the technological limitations currently facing the microelectronics and data-storage industries, paving the way to smaller electronic ... > full story
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