The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) have recently awarded $123 million grants. The grants will be utilized by 11 universities and one non-profit research organization for creating new scientific research facilities in their institutions. All the 12 projects are from variety of fields including wind power to nanotechnology and will start investing money [...]
A strip of paper infused with carbon nanotubes can quickly and inexpensively detect a toxin produced by algae in drinking water.
Aneeve Nanotechnologies LLC has licensed related carbon nanotube technology from UCLA that was developed by Kang Wang, professor of electrical engineering at UCLA. The CNT technology increases hormonal detection sensitivity significantly allowing detection beyond traditional sensors. The company is using this technology to develop bio-medical applications that are low power consumption, small in size, and involve ultra-sensitive nanoelectronic technologies.
Nanoscience has the potential to play an enormous role in enhancing a range of products, including sensors, photovoltaics and consumer electronics. Scientists in this field have created a multitude of nano scale materials, such as metal nanocrystals, carbon nanotubes and semiconducting nanowires.
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The Science & Technology Committee of the UK's House of Lords has warned the British food industry not to be secretive about use use of nanotechnology.
"The Science and Technology Committee published a report on nanotechnology and food on Friday," notes ZDNet UK's Tom Espiner.
"The committee said food companies should reveal the use of nanotechnology, which is used to improve the flavor and texture of food," writes TopNews' Sunil Kumar. "Nanotechnology also helps food companies in increasing the self life of their products."
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Researchers at Texas has developed a new molecular machine that is much more efficient that the current molecular machines available. According to the research findings as published in the ACS Organic Letters, this machine can outperform the traditional nano machines and researchers believe that it is the beginning of new generation state of the art [...]
Scientists in Texas are reporting the development of a “nanodragster” that may speed the course toward development of a new generation of futuristic molecular machines. The vehicle — only 1/50,000th the width of a human hair — resembles a hot-rod in shape and can outperform previous nano-sized vehicles. Their report is in ACS’ Organic Letters, a bi-weekly journal.
Nanoparticles or nanomaterials are required for various applications in almost all fields including energy, medicine, electronics, consumer goods and technology. These particles rearrange themselves, which is also called self-assembly of nanoparticles.
Now researchers at the University of Glassglow along with scientists of University of Bielefeld have recorded the self-assembly process of nanomaterials. The team has managed [...]
Carbon nanotubes are of many forms and these finds variety of applications in all spheres of material science, energy and medicine. In the present work, researchers from Centre of Single Molecule of Arizona State University and Biodesign Institute have successfully demonstrated the use of carbon nanotube for DNA sequencing and the details is published in [...]
Researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body’s sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo.
