Using the new material graphene super, Sweden and American researchers have managed to produce a new type of lighting components. It is cheap to produce and can be completely recycled.The invention, which paves the way for the shiny wallpaper made entirely of plastic, for example, is published in the journal ACS Nano by scientists at [...]

Gene therapy holds great promise in treating cancer and many other diseases. However, the development of a scalable system for delivering genes into cells efficiently and safely has been challenging. Now, two teams of researchers have developed a versatile nano-enabled platforms that could get therapeutic genes safely and efficiently in cancer cells. In one study, [...]

Tiny objects known as nanoparticles have been heralded as holding great potential for future applications in electronics, medicine and other areas. The properties of nanoparticles depend on their size and structure. Now researchers at the State University of North Carolina, have learned to create hollow constant, solid nanoparticles and amorphous nickel phosphide, which has potential [...]

Dr. Jiwoong Park Cornell University, which receives funding for basic research of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is researching carbon nanostructures that may one day be used in electronics, thermal, and mechanical devices Detection of the Air Force. “The appliances are required in many of the missions of the Air Force are [...]

Small pieces of nucleic acid known as short interfering RNA, or siRNA, can disable the production of specific proteins, a property that makes them one of the most promising new classes of anticancer drugs in development. In fact, at least two siRNA-based therapies against cancer, both delivered to tumors in nanoparticles, have begun human clinical [...]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a new ruler, and even for an organization that routinely deals in superlatives, set some records. Designed to be best available commercially “measuring rule” to the nano world, the new measuring tool – a calibration standard X-ray diffraction – with uncertainties below a femtometer. That’s 0.000 [...]

Water flows through a microfluidic channel, about 35 microns wide, and enters a narrowing which breaks into drops. By varying the width of the constriction of changes in the size of droplets and strands of water molecules with desired concentration just cause of the resulting droplets to collect individual molecules of interest of 99 percent [...]

Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered what happens to nanoparticles when they enter biomimetic human cells. They found that the important proteins that form the outer layer of the nanoparticles are degraded by an enzyme called cathepsin L. Scientists now have to take into account this phenomenon and [...]

As technology advances, scientists look for ways to improve applications and electronic devices. In fact, the electronics are getting smaller and more diverse. And as this happens, there is a greater need for flexibility in the transistors that make electronic devices that want to work. Unfortunately, silicon and polymers can not fulfill the necessary requirements [...]

When cells can’t carry out the jobs needed of them by our bodies, the result’s illness. Nanobiotechnology analysts are searching for methods to permit artificial systems take over straightforward cellular activities when they are absent from the cell. This needs transport systems that may encapsulate medicines and other substances and release them in a controlled [...]

Analysts at the Commerce Department’s State Institute of Standards and Technology and Cornell School have capitalized on a method for manufacturing integrated circuits at the nanometer level and used it to develop a strategy for engineering the very first nanoscale fluidic device with complicated three-dimensional surfaces. As explained in a paper published online today in [...]