News tagged with nanosphere
Nanospheres made of aromatic amino acids: The most rigid organic nanostructures to date
(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic nanostructures are key elements of nanotechnology because these building blocks can be made with tailored chemical properties. Their disadvantage has been that their mechanical properties ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Tiny rulers to measure nanoscale structures
With the advent of nanometer-sized machines, there is considerable demand for stable, precise tools to measure absolute distances and distance changes. One way to do this is with a plasmon ruler. In physics ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Imec reports asymetric nanostructures for early and more accurate prediction of cancer
Researchers at the nanotechnology research center Imec (Belgium) have demonstrated biosensors based on novel nanostructure geometries that increase the sensitivity and allow to detect extremely low concentrations of specific ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Nanospheres stretch limits of hard disk storage
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new magnetic recording medium made up of tiny nanospheres has been devised by European researchers. The technology may lead to hard disks able to store more than a thousand billion bits ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Applied physicists create building blocks for a new class of optical circuits
Imagine creating novel devices with amazing and exotic optical properties not found in Nature -- by simply evaporating a droplet of particles on a surface.
May 28, 2010 |
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Making Quantum Behavior Observable Using Optical Levitation
(PhysOrg.com) -- Perhaps one of the biggest challenges of modern physics is figuring out how to realize and take advantage of strange quantum behaviors in progressively larger and more complex systems. Progress ...
Jan 26, 2010 |
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Hollow gold nanospheres show promise for biomedical and other applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new metal nanostructure developed by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has already shown promise in cancer therapy studies and could be used for chemical and biological ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 22, 2009 |
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Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma
Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 02, 2009 |
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