MANSFIELD -- Ken Ekegren is thinking big when it comes to nanotechnology, the science and application of dealing with materials on a small scale. North Central State College announced this week it took the first step to integrating nanotechnology into ...…

A new video on potential applications for nanotechnology in the forest products industry has been widely adopted as a teaching and learning tool. Dozens of organizations have added it to their website and the video website has been ...…

Mason electrical engineer Qiliang Li has been working to solve this problem. In fact, he foresees a future where a person might only need to recharge his or her electronic devices once a week. He believes the answer lies in nanotechnology.…

The Material Science & Nanotechnology Laboratories at the University of Jordan The material science and nanotechnology laboratories at Hamdi Mango Center for Scientific Research (HMCSR) incubate research in select projects that have ...…

About a year-and-a-half ago, I came across a treasure trove of nanotechnology-related videos posted by an organization called NISE (Nanoscale Informal Science Education) Network. And while visiting Andrew Maynard's 2020 Science blog today, ..…

The unlikely pairing of a chemist and a fashion designer has led to the creation of air-purifying textiles. The duo will debut a catalyzed denim kilt at the Edinburgh International Science Festival at the end of March. Chemist Tony Ryan from the ...…

A new study led by nanotechnology and biotechnology experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is providing important details on how proteins in our bodies interact with nanomaterials. In their new study, published in the Feb.…

A promising new nanotechnology called Power Felt, a thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current, soon could create enough juice to make another call simply by touching it. Developed by researchers in the Center for ...…

In the closing ceremony of the First Strengthening Camp for Nanotechnology Human Resources, Dr. Sarkar said that this camp was organized in line with Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council's objectives and prospect, which are the improvement of health ...…

Nanotechnology promises to make the future much more interesting quite possibly more amazing too. But it seems like there might be one serious flaw to the tech that smaller particles means bigger booms. Dust blows up more...…

The tiny electronic device, described today in a paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, uses as its active component an individual phosphorus atom patterned between atomic-scale electrodes and electrostatic control gates.…

by Gwyneth K. Shaw | Feb 17, 2012 3:22 pm (NHI Nanoblog) President Obama's newly-minted budget request would increase funding for a number of efforts to promote the development of nanotechnology—and safeguard the health of people, animals and the ...…

Leading researchers in the field of nanotechnology are describing the clam-like bots — which are assembled from the same components that make up your genetic code — a major milestone in the field of smart drugs. This level of praise has been ...…

Brasilia, Brazil, 17 Feb – Brazil and China plan to work together to develop new technologies in the nanotechnology sector, according to a decree published in the official Brazilian newspaper by the Ministry for Science, Technology and Innovation.…

While there have been major advances in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of tumors within the brain, brain cancer continues to have a very low survival rate in part to high levels of resistance to treatment.…

Dutch scientists have found a way of turning plant matter into the building blocks of common plastics using a nanotechnology process that offers an alternative to oil-based production. The team from Utrecht University and Dow Chemical Co produced ...…

However, talking about the nanotechnology, the study researchers affirmed that it seems that nanotechnology is completely imitating the nature. The way nature has infused plants to carry out photosynthesis is quite commendable, but nanotechnology is ...…

"Reach doesn't specifically discriminate between bulk form and nano form," says Mark Morrison, CEO of Institute of Nanotechnology, in Glasgow. Yet with nanoparticles, often the whole point of using them is to exploit the way that a material's ...…

Nanotechnology could revolutionise the manufacture of new types of materials. Niklas Lindahl has studied carbon nanotubes and graphene, which are tubes and flat sheets consisting of a thin layer of carbon atoms. Their unique properties make them ...…

The results have been published in leading scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology ("Tunable doping of a metal with molecular spins"). University of Twente researchers were able to incorporate magnetic elements into a non-magnetic layer of gold in a ...…