News tagged with nanotechnology

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Reliable Home Fertility Test in Sight

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new 'fertility chip', developed by researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology (The Netherlands), can accurately count spermatozoa in sperm. This is an important ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Feb 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Graphene Electronics: Single-step Technique Produces Both P-type and N-type Doping for Future Devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple one-step process that produces both n-type and p-type doping of large-area graphene surfaces could facilitate use of the promising material for future electronic devices. The doping ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New magnetic tuning method enhances data storage

Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 09, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanotechnology in the Fight Against Cancer

A world-renowned medical researcher discusses the key role that nanotechnology has begun to play in the detection and treatment of cancer in an article that will appear in the March 2010 edition of Mechanical Engineering ma ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

U.S. faces widening information gap on nanotechnology

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the global nanotechnology industry continues to produce cutting-edge consumer products, the scientific community is leaving a key part of the U.S. public behind when sharing knowledge of this new field ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Using Nanotechnology to Boost the Lifespan of Medical Implants

(PhysOrg.com) -- UConn engineering researchers are developing a new family of implant materials.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 08, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MO-SCI to manufacture SRNL's unique porous walled hollow glass microspheres

A licensing agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corporation will make SRNL's unique Porous Walled Hollow Glass Microspheres available ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Behavior modification could ease concerns about nanoparticles

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New curriculum mixes nanotechnology and skiing (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology seems a daunting subject, but for mechanical engineering students at the University of Nevada, Reno, it has taken on a real world approach - in Ski Building 101.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Entropy alone creates complex crystals from simple shapes, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that elevates the role of entropy in creating order, research led by the University of Michigan shows that certain pyramid shapes can spontaneously organize into complex quasicrystals.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 2

A (nano-) window that washes itself?

A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car? New Tel Aviv University research, just published in Nature Nanotechnology, detail ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 9

LST builds first global nanotech regulation database

(PhysOrg.com) -- A global database of government documents on nanotechnology is being launched by three law professors at Arizona State University who, with their colleagues in Australia and Belgium, have corralled and organized ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanotube defects equal better energy and storage systems

(PhysOrg.com) -- Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by UC San Diego engineers could lead to carbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

findNano app puts nanotech in your pocket

The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) has developed findNano, an application for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that lets users discover and determine whether consumer products are nanotechnology-enabled. Nanotechnology, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Behavior modification could ease concerns about nanoparticles

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0