There's several companies that provide nanomaterial analysis and characterization services for companies that don't have their own lab. I've added a page to my web site listing these companies, hope it will be useful to some of you.

I've added 5 new nanotechnology lesson plans to the UnderstandingNano website. The site now offers lesson plans for both high school and middle school grade levels on three topics: Introduction to Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology in Medicine, and Environmental Nanotechnology.…

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Looking at news stories about the application of nanotechnology to medical issues it seemed to me that articles about curing heart disease show up much less frequently than articles about curing cancer. That got me thinking, so I started looking for programs that coordinate and fund research for the application of nanotechnology to curing heart disease.

It turns out that the U.S. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute has funded four Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology…

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One of the challenges with current cancer treatments is how to deliver drugs to tumors without causing debilitating side effects. By delivering drugs in a more targeted way, some of those side effects can be reduced. There are several companies and universities developing targeted drug delivery using nanoparticles. One method being developed by researchers at MIT and University of California at San Diego and Santa Barbara looks interesting. They have divided the task between two nanoparticles… Continue