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nano tech 2012 to Be Held from February 15 to 17 in Tokyo
The nano tech Executive Committee (Chairman: Professor Tomoji Kawai, Osaka University) is pleased to present nano tech 2012, the 11th International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference,...
Rolith Uses Nanolithography to Create Nanostructured Products for Green Applications
Rolith, Inc. is developing advanced nanostructured products for solar energy, green building, solid state lighting and efficient display products using a proprietary nanolithography technology....
Diagnostic Chips Introduces Portable Flow Cytometer Lab-on-a-Chip Device
By Cameron Chai Diagnostic Chips has developed a portable flow cytometer lab-on-a-chip device based on advanced microfluidic technologies. Lab-on-a-chip and microfluidics technology scientist,...
Early Nanotoxicology Study Results Support Use of Nanodiamonds in Implants
By Cameron Chai An early study by the University of Alabama at Birmingham has discovered that nanodiamonds used for reinforcing synthetic joints are also...
Announcement of New Investment Strands for Graphene Research in UK
By Cameron Chai Announcement of four new investment strands will help the United Kingdom to lead and establish itself as a graphene research hub for...
Researchers Develop New Technique to Obtain Nanorod Arrays
By Cameron Chai Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have developed a fast and...
Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering Develops Antennaless RFID Tags
By Cameron Chai Scientists from the North Dakota State Universityâ€™s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) have developed an antennaless radio frequency identification...
Qcept Technologies to Discuss NVD Inspection Solutions at Several Nanotechnology Conferences
By Cameron Chai Qcept Technologies, a company specializing in wafer inspection solutions, has declared its participation in several major key nanotechnology conferences to be...
Scientists Use Nanoparticle Fillers to Enhance Transformer Oil Efficiency
By Cameron Chai A Rice University research team comprising Jaime Taha-Tijerina, Tharangattu Narayanan and Matteo Pasquali has discovered that trace quantities of hexagonal boron...
Study Findings Pave Way to Use Graphene as Next Silicon
By Cameron Chai High conductivity is one of the major issues of graphene and this restricts it to be used as a base material...

A desalination battery for freshwater production
Technological advances have made desalination and demineralization of seawater feasible, albeit expensive, solutions for increasing the world's supply of freshwater. Among various desalination technologies, reverse...
Hiden Membrane Inlet Dissolved Gas and Vapour Monitor
The Hiden Analytical HPR-40 Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometer series now feature an extended range of submersible insertion probes and flow-through semipermeable membrane interfaces, specifically engineered...
Microfluidic Expert Dolomite Looks Back on Successful Year 2011
Dolomite, a world leader in the design and manufacture of microfluidic systems and devices, has had continued exceptional growth in 2011 with the launch of...
Bronze-Matryoshka: The metal in the metal in the metal - design of new, highly efficient catalysts
A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside - this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs...
Microsemi Participates in New Research Project to Reduce CO Emissions
Industry consortium tasked with developing silicon on insulator sensors for harsh environments.
First industrial-scale foam forming research environment for forest sector
VTT Finland invests to new sustainable and added value fiber-based products for the forest sector.
New tool for analyzing solar-cell materials
Website offers a way of optimizing solar cell materials and production.
Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels
Creative engineering produces hollow nanoshell whispering galleries that trap light to improve performance of thin solar films.
Innovation promises expanded roles for microsensors
Researchers have learned how to improve the performance of sensors that use tiny vibrating microcantilevers to detect chemical and biological agents for applications from national...
NanoInk Launches Contract Services Program for Live Single Cell Assay Work
Service offering expected to advance research programs involved with toxicity assessment, high content screening, and cell-cell communication.

Graphene transistor goes vertical
New device can be switched on and off
Prism substrate improves organic transistors
Micro-imprinting technique could make for faster devices
Carbon membranes excel at separating molecules
Ultrathin films of graphene oxide and diamond-like carbon have highly selective permeability
Graphene could be a perfect absorber of light
Periodic patterning and doping is the key
Nanotubes monitor enzyme activity
New technique allows researchers to better understand biomolecule behaviour
Plasmonic metamaterials could make 'gecko toes'
Simulation reveals surprising attraction
Isotopic purity boosts graphene's heat conduction
Pure carbon-12 is a better conductor
Strain improves organic semiconductors
Charge mobilities are significantly enhanced
Nanotube bundles could make good solar cells
Material can generate electron-hole pairs and separate the charge carriers too
Introducing the 'nano-ear'
Trapped nanoparticle could listen to micro-organisms

Nanoparticle Targets Brain Tumors
Scientists at Cedars-Sinai’s Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute found that a specific protein called laminin-411 plays a major role in the ability of an aggressive type...
In situ green synthesis of biocompatible ginseng capped gold nanoparticles with remarkable stability
This paper reports a one-step green synthesis of gold nanoparticles (G-AuNps), using naturally occurring Korean red ginseng root (Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer) and investigates their...
The Dean of Invention: Segway Mastermind Probes Sci-Tech’s Future [Video]
Ask a random person on the street to name his or her five favorite scientists, chances are you would hear a litany of familiar names–perhaps...
Butterfly wings behind anti-counterfeiting nanotechnology
Imagine a hole so small that air can’t go through it, or a hole so small it can trap a single wavelength of light. Nanotech...
Voluntary Initiatives, Regulation, and Nanotechnology Oversight
A new PEN report provides the first ever analysis of voluntary initiatives to regulate nanotechnology. As nanotechnologies move forward, along with other emerging technologies, voluntary...
U.S. Science & Engineering Festival culminates this weekend on the National Mall
It’s common knowledge that the U.S. no longer produces enough scientists and engineers to keep pace with the rest of the world. Now, the organizers...
Synthesis, characterization and cytotoxicity studies of chitosan-coated tea polyphenols nanoparticles
This study describes the preparation of chitosan-coated tea polyphenols nanoparticles (CS-TP NPs) by ionic gelation method using carboxymethyl chitosan and chitosan hydrochloride as carriers of...
World Changing Ideas 2010 (preview)
Technology is all around us, expanding the limits of what is possible. but every once in a while, some invention or insight has an outsize...
Cat Lap: Engineers Unravel the Mystery of How Felines Drink
One morning a few years back Roman Stocker was watching his cat, Cutta Cutta, drink, and began to wonder about the mechanism by...
Silicon-Nested Gadonanotubes Promise Big Advance for Medical Imaging
A porous, disk-shaped “nest” for nanotubes may help magnetic resonance imaging become better than ever at finding evidence of cancer if the results of research...

Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels
Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one...
A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal
A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside – this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs...
The right recipe: Engineering research improves laser detectors, batteries
Think of it as cooking with carbon spaghetti: A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes --...
Nanorod-assembled order affects diffusion rate and direction
Some of the recent advancements in nanotechnology depend critically on how nanoparticles move and diffuse on a surface or in a fluid under non-ideal to...
The butterfly effect in nanotech medical diagnostics
Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary...
Harnessing plasmonics, engineers weld nanowires with light
At the nano level, researchers at Stanford have discovered a new way to weld together meshes of tiny wires. Their work could lead to exciting...
Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap alternative to traditional solar cells
Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using...
Researchers move graphene electronics into 3D
In a paper published this week in Science, a Manchester team lead by Nobel laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov has literally opened...
Electronic salmon sandwich is paving the way towards cost-effective DNA memory device
In order to find a method for more cost-effective data storage, a group of researchers from the DFG-Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) at the Karlsruhe...
Researchers find molybdenite may be better suited for integrated logic circuits than graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because of its physical limitations, silicon use in tiny integrated logic circuits will have to one day soon be replaced by something that...

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Double-Duty Nanoparticles Overcome Drug Resistance in Tumors

A science breakthrough in National Cancer Institute predicts that the some nanoparticales can overcome drug resistance in tumors over time. A released report by National Cancer Institute via PubMed is quoted here.

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