Nanotechnology News Feed from SciGuru.com for latest discoveries, inventions and developments in nanotechnology http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3794/Findings-show-promise-for-nuclear-fusion-test-reactors/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:38:13 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3794 Researchers have discovered mechanisms critical to interactions between hot plasma and surfaces facing the plasma inside a thermonuclear fusion reacto http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3789/Toward-a-new-generation-of-superplastics/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:15:42 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3789 Scientists are reporting an in-depth validation of the discovery of the world's first mass producible, low-cost, organoclays for plastics. The powdere http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3774/Nanoparticles-Increase-Intensity-of-Quantum-Dots'-Glow/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:51:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3774 By linking individual semiconductor quantum dots with gold nanoparticles, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Labo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3772/Nanowick-at-heart-of-new-system-to-cool-'power-electronics'/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 07:55:53 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3772 Researchers have shown that an advanced cooling technology being developed for high-power electronics in military and automotive systems is capable of http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3751/Silicon-micro-ring-resonator-could-help-advance-nanomanipulation-/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:46:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3751 To trap and hold tiny microparticles, engineers at Harvard have "put a ring on it," using a silicon-based circular resonator to confine particles stab http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3722/Thousands-of-New-Proteins-Discovered-in-Spinal-Fluid/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:08:46 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3722 Scientists and doctors have a far better understanding of the proteins in healthy spinal fluid, thanks to a U.S., Swedish team who identified 2,630 pr http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3712/Magnetic-Nanoparticles-Remove-Ovarian-Cancer-Cells-from-the-Abdominal-Cavity/ Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:48:42 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3712 A major complicating factor in the treatment of ovarian cancer is that malignant cells are often shed into the patient's abdominal cavity. These cells http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3709/Sugar-Coated-Nanotubes-Deliver-High-Dose-Radiotherapy/ Sun, 18 Jul 2010 07:15:24 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3709 Starting with simple carbon nanotubes, a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Spain has developed a sugar-coated nanocapsule that can deliv http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3690/Protein-linked-to-aging-may-boost-memory-and-learning-ability/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:05:15 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3690 Over the past 20 years, biologists have shown that proteins called sirtuins can slow the aging process in many animal species. Now an MIT team led by http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3689/Fibers-that-can-hear-and-sing:-Sophisticated-fibers-that-interact-with-with-their-surroundings-/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:53:49 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3689 For centuries, "man-made fibers" meant the raw stuff of clothes and ropes; in the information age, it's come to mean the filaments of glass that carry http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3672/Magnets-trump-metallics:-Magnetic-fields-can-block-conductivity-of-carbon-nanotubes/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 19:31:49 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3672 Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electron http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3640/New-retrieval-method-makes-studying-cancer-proteins-easier/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:06:28 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3640 A Purdue University researcher can better retrieve specific proteins needed to study how cancer cells form by using a newly developed technique and sy http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3634/Multicolor-Quantum-Dots-Aid-in-Cancer-Biopsy-Diagnosis/ Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:41:15 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3634 The tunable fluorescent nanoparticles known as quantum dots make ideal tools for distinguishing and identifying rare cancer cells in tissue biopsies, http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3629/Nano-sized-light-mill-drives-micro-sized-disk/ Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:39:56 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3629 While those wonderful light sabers in the Star Wars films remain the figment of George Lucas' fertile imagination, light mills - rotary motors driven http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3588/Nanopores-make-sterile-filtration-more-reliable/ Thu, 01 Jul 2010 05:52:24 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3588 Irregular pores, low flow rates: The plastic membrane filters used in sterile filtration do not always ensure that conditions are really sterile. Filt http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3584/Programmable-matter-folding-into-a-boat-or-plane-shape-using-origami-techniques/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:22:40 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3584 "More than meets the eye" may soon become more than just for the Transformer line of popular robotic toys. Researchers at Harvard and MIT have reshape http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3577/New-molecular-framework-could-lead-to-flexible-solar-cells/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:57:00 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3577 Think of solar cells, and you probably imagine the thick, heavy silicon panels on rooftops in sunny climates. Those panels are effective, but they can http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3569/For-Platinum-catalysts,-smaller-may-be-better/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:22:37 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3569 When it comes to metal catalysts, the platinum standard is, well, platinum! However, at about $2,000 an ounce, platinum is more expensive than gold. T http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3535/Spaghetti-Highway-of-aligned-nanofibers-promises-better-tissue-regeneration/ Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:57:05 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3535 A big question in regenerative medicine is how to most effectively deliver stem cells - as well as other beneficial cells, proteins and large molecule http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3530/Living,-breathing-human-lung-on-a-chip/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:37:01 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3530 Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a mi