Bringing Microfluidics to the Marketplace
Medical technology is moving fast and microfluidics may provide answers to health conditions as easy as a placing a drop of blood on a plastic…
Nanotechnology News
Gold Nanorods Shaped as Starfruit Deliver Impressive Results
Starfruit is lending its shape to newly synthesized gold nanorods, whose particles have been found to return signals 25 times stronger than similar nanorods with…
Mapping the Pathways of Electrical Charge From Molecule to Molecule
As efforts continue to improve nanotechnology and molecular electronic devices, a team of researchers has provided the first experimental determination of the pathways by which…
Analyzing the Environmental Costs and Impacts of Technology
With every new technology, there are costs and environmental impacts to consider, and that’s exactly what MIT’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing research group does. By routinely…
Nanoparticles in 3-D Atomic-Scale Resolution
Report of a new method for directly measuring the atomic structure of nanomaterials was published today in the journal Nature. By taking measurements at 69…
Amplifier Chip Measures Nanopores With High Speed Precision
Scientists continue to improve upon nanotechnology and find new uses for it. By designing a custom integrated circuit using commercial semiconductor technology, researchers have developed…
New Nanofabrication Process for Metamaterials
The development of metamaterials continues to move forward as physicists at Harvard have used short and powerful laser pulses to create 3-D patterns of tiny…
“Designer Electrons” Have Tunable Properties
The first ever electrons with tunable properties were observed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. By repositioning the carbon monoxide molecules that were placed on…
High Resolution 3D Printer Prints 5 Meters per Second
Using “two-photon lithography,” scientists at the Vienna University of Technology developed a high-precision 3D printer that can print five meters in one second. The printer…
Gold Improves the Performance of Nanoparticle Fuel-Cell Reactions
Fuel-cell technology is set to take a step forward as chemists have created a triple-headed metallic nanoparticle, FePtAu, which generates higher current per unit of…
Carbon Nanotubes Increase the Speed of Biological Sensors
By using the power of carbon nanotubes, scientists have almost tripled the speed of prototype nano-biosensors. The researchers believe that this nanotechnology will make it…
Researchers Explain Mysterious Nanoscale Crop Circles
Three years after their initial encounter, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have explained what’s happening with the “nanoscale crop…
Researchers Discover Electrical Switch for Magnetic Current
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute used a short electric pulse to change the magnetic transport properties of a material sandwich consisting of a ferroelectric…
Researchers Develop Nano-Infused Oil To Efficiently Remove Heat From Systems
Researchers at Rice University have created a nano-infused oil that uses a very tiny amount of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) particles suspended in standard mineral…
Researchers Work on Nanopatterned Surfaces to Improve Efficiency of Power Plants
A MIT research team published new findings on their analysis of condensation mechanisms. By using nanopatterned surfaces, the researcher offers new insights into how the…
Microfluidic Device Can Isolate Target Cells Faster than Existing Devices
Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have demonstrated a new microfluidic device that can isolate target cells much faster than existing devices and may…
Researchers Control Width and Composition of Nanowire Growth
A team of MIT researchers developed a way to precisely control the width and composition of nanowires as they grow. By being able to grow…
Quantum Computers to Arrive with Single-Atom-Sized Transistors
Physicists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales have constructed a transistor from single atom of phosphorus placed precisely on a bed…