News tagged with nanometers
Related topics: nanoparticles , nanoscale , nanotechnology , molecules , light
Researchers use X-ray diffraction microscope to reveal 3-D internal structure of whole cell
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the new technique, researchers were able to identify the 3-D morphology and structure of cellular organelles, including the cell wall, vacuole, endoplasmic reticulum, mitrochondria, granules and nucleolus. ...
Jun 07, 2010 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
0
|
Self-Assembling Gold Nanoparticles Use Light to Kill Tumor Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A variety of studies by numerous investigators are demonstrating that gold nanoparticles have real promise as anticancer agents. When irradiated with light, gold nanoparticles become hot quickly, hot enough ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 26, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (14) |
4
|
Nanotubes that Heal: Engineering Better Orthopedic Implants
(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium and its alloys have a leg up on all other materials used to make the orthopedic implants used by surgeons to repair damaged bones and joints. They are light, super-strong, and virtually ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 18, 2010 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
|
Creating a Captivating Cage for Carbon
(PhysOrg.com) -- A tough, hard-working particle known as ZIF-8 that can selectively remove carbon dioxide from a complex mixture of gases was designed by scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ...
May 11, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (7) |
1
|
What do we know about nano?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanotechnology involves manipulating the unimaginably small. A nanometer is about 5 carbon atoms in a row, or the distance your fingernail grows in one second. Matter behaves fundamentally ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (4) |
3
Upgrade to advanced photon source announced by DOE
Advances in energy conservation, better materials for frontier technologies and new economic engines, and breakthroughs in understanding diseases: These are just a few of the potential discoveries, both basic and applied, ...
May 03, 2010 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Tiny Particles May Help Surgeons By Marking Brain Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a way to enhance how brain tumors appear in MRI scans and during surgery, making the tumors easier for surgeons to identify and remove.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 29, 2010 |
4 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Nanodots Breakthrough May Lead To 'A Library On One Chip'
A researcher at North Carolina State University has developed a computer chip that can store an unprecedented amount of data - enough to hold an entire library's worth of information on a single chip. The new chip stems from ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (20) |
11
|
Researchers COMMAND a Better Class of Liposomes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pop a bubble while washing the dishes and you're likely to release a few drops of water trapped when the soapy sphere formed. A few years ago, researchers at the National Institute of Standards ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
5 / 5 (1) |
0
|
Nano-infused filters prove effective: Scientists build better catalyst with nanotube membranes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University researchers and their colleagues in Finland and Hungary have found a way to make carbon nanotube membranes that could find wide application as extra-fine air filters and as ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 26, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (7) |
0
|
Bionanotechnology has new face, world-class future
Imagine the marriage of hard metals or semiconductors to soft organic or biological products. Picture the strange, wonderful offspring -- hybrid materials never conceived by Mother Nature.
Apr 19, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (14) |
1
|
Study shows that size affects structure of hollow nanoparticles
A new study from North Carolina State University shows that size plays a key role in determining the structure of certain hollow nanoparticles. The researchers focused on nickel nanoparticles, which have interesting ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 12, 2010 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
|
Self- and X-ray-Induced Crystallization of Supramolecular Filaments
(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments can sometimes lead to the discovery of completely unanticipated phenomena. Such is the case with the remarkable behavior exhibited by peptide nanostructures (in the form of supramolecular ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 08, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (8) |
2
|
Scientists develop environmentally friendly way to produce propylene oxide using silver nanoclusters
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have identified a new class of silver-based catalysts for the production of the industrially useful chemical propylene oxide that is ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 08, 2010 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
0
|
Scientists discover new principle in material science
(PhysOrg.com) -- Materials scientists have known that a metal's strength (or weakness) is governed by dislocation interactions, a messy exchange of intersecting fault lines that move or ripple within metallic ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 07, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (10) |
1
|
