| 2/5/2010 12:40:57 AM | Materials | 0 comments |
Growing Cartilage -- No Easy Task
Northwestern University researchers are the first to design a bioactive nanomaterial that promotes the growth of new cartilage in vivo and without the use of expensive growth factors.
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| 1/28/2010 6:25:35 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Surprising Discovery: X-rays Drive Formation of New Crystals
Crystals resemble some biological structures; finding opens door to new technologies
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| 1/14/2010 5:55:41 PM | Industry | 0 comments |
Nanoscience poses solutions, problems for environmental ills
Imagine a cloud blocking out the sun’s light, engulfing the world in darkness as people lived their fossil fueled dominated lives.
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| 1/14/2010 5:53:36 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Game-changing nanodiamond discovery for MRI
A Northwestern University study shows that coupling a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent to a nanodiamond results in dramatically enhanced signal intensity and thus vivid image contrast.
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| 12/23/2009 8:24:04 PM | Materials | 0 comments |
An Easy Way to See the World’s Thinnest Material
Researchers use the dye fluorescein to create a new imaging technique to view graphene, a one-atom thick sheet that scientists believe could be used to produce low-cost carbon-based transparent and flexible electronics.
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| 12/3/2009 12:08:57 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Researchers demonstrate 100-watt-level mid-infrared lasers
Northwestern University researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cascade laser output power, delivering 120 watts from a single device at room temperature.
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| 11/22/2009 10:56:56 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Detecting the Undetectable in Prostate Cancer Testing
A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive nanotechnology-based tool known as the biobarcode system, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy.
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| 11/11/2009 9:11:37 AM | Research | 0 comments |
New Nanocrystalline Diamond Probes Overcome Wear
Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University have developed, characterized, and modeled a new kind of probe used in atomic force microscopy (AFM), which images, measures, and manipulates matter at the nanoscale.
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| 10/19/2009 5:59:45 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Detecting the undetectable in prostate cancer screening using nanotechnology
A team of Northwestern University researchers, using an extremely sensitive tool based on nanotechnology, has detected previously undetectable levels of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in patients who have undergone radical prostatectomy.
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| 9/24/2009 4:18:59 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Nanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy
A team of Northwestern University researchers has shown that nanodiamonds can serve as a novel gene delivery technology that combines key enhanced delivery efficiency along with outstanding biocompatibility, all in one drug delivery package.
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| 9/1/2009 5:55:09 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Promise of nanodiamonds for safer gene therapy
A team of Northwestern University researchers has introduced the power of nanodiamonds as a novel gene delivery technology that combines key properties in one approach: enhanced delivery efficiency along with outstanding biocompatibility.
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| 8/30/2009 10:02:09 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Nanoflares Light Up Molecules in Live Cells
By combining a gold nanoparticle with a unique family of nucleic acids, researchers at Northwestern University have created a new type of intracellular reporting system that with a flash of light reveals the presence and quantity of a wide variety of biologically important molecules.
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| 8/13/2009 2:31:04 AM | Materials | 0 comments |
Northwestern University team found a new way of turning graphite oxide into graphene
Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor
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| 8/1/2009 11:59:57 AM | Drug Delivery | 0 comments |
Nanodiamonds Deliver Insulin for Wound Healing
Using tiny nanodiamonds, researchers at Northwestern University have demonstrated an innovative method for delivering and releasing the curative hormone at a specific location over a period of time.
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| 7/27/2009 12:08:22 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Targeted Nanoparticles Boost Arsenic’s Anticancer Punch
A new report suggests that targeted nanoparticles may be able to overcome the dose-limiting toxicities of arsenic trioxide while simultaneously boosting this chemical’s anticancer activity.
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| 7/8/2009 1:24:45 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
'Normal' cells far from cancer give nanosignals of trouble
A new Northwestern University-led study of human colon, pancreatic and lung cells is the first to report that cancer cells and their non-cancerous cell neighbors, although quite different under the microscope, share very similar structural abnormalities on the nanoscale level.
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| 6/28/2009 8:34:25 AM | Drug Delivery | 0 comments |
Nanoscale "Fountain Pen" Draws Therapeutic Nanodiamonds
A research team at Northwestern University has developed a tool that can precisely deliver tiny doses of drug-carrying nanomaterials to individual cells.
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| 4/4/2009 3:20:01 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Researchers Peer Into Nanowires to Measure Dopant Properties
Nanowires are synthesized from elements that form bulk semiconductors, whose electrical properties are in turn controlled by adding minute amounts of impurities called dopants. The amount of dopant determines the conductivity of the nanowire.
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| 3/19/2009 6:22:13 PM | Materials | 0 comments |
Zinc oxide gives green shine to new photoconductors
Northwestern University researchers have designed a high-performing photoconducting material that uses zinc oxide -- an environmentally friendly inorganic compound found in baby powder and suntan lotion -- instead of lead sulfide. (Currently, the best performing photoconductor is based on lead sulfide nanoparticles.)
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| 2/16/2009 5:26:01 PM | Energy | 0 comments |
Chemists offer new hydrogen purification method
President Barack Obama's pursuit of energy independence promises to accelerate research and development for alternative energy sources -- solar, wind and geothermal power, biofuels, hydrogen and biomass, to name a few.
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| 2/16/2009 5:23:01 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Molecules self-assemble to provide new therapeutic treatments
Researchers in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp at Northwestern University have an interesting approach for tackling some major health problems: gather raw materials and then let them self-assemble into structures that can address a multitude of medical needs.
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| 2/6/2009 6:20:04 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Nanoscopic Static Electricity Generates Chiral Patterns
In the tiny world of amino acids and proteins and in the helical shape of DNA, a biological phenomenon abounds.
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| 1/30/2009 12:47:28 AM | Materials | 0 comments |
Large-scale Graphene Films Created Based On Inspiration From Water Lilies
In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter. But in order to construct new materials and devices, researchers first need to understand how these tiny units interact with each other.
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| 1/9/2009 7:40:12 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Synthetic HDL: A new weapon to fight cholesterol problems
The researchers successfully designed synthetic HDL and show that their nanoparticle version is capable of irreversibly binding cholesterol. The synthetic HDL, based on gold nanoparticles, is similar in size to HDL and mimics HDL's general surface composition.
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| 1/9/2009 7:35:04 PM | Partnership | 0 comments |
Baxter, Northwestern Partner to Target New Life Sciences Projects
The company already collaborates with the University on topics ranging from stem cell and nanotechnology research to student recruitment.
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| 12/21/2008 1:02:04 AM | Nanotubes | 0 comments |
Method Sorts Out Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Problem
It’s hard to study something with any rigor if the subject can’t be produced uniformly and efficiently. Researchers who study double-walled carbon nanotubes -- nanomaterials with promising technological applications -- find themselves in just this predicament.
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| 11/20/2008 6:11:58 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Researchers Make New Electronics – With a Twist
Researchers have developed a method to fabricate stretchable electronics.
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| 10/14/2008 8:05:47 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Strong elasticity size effects in ZnO nanowires
Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University recently performed experiments and computations to resolve major existing discrepancies about the scaling of ZnO nanowires elastic properties.
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| 8/15/2008 6:38:25 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Northwestern Chemists Take Gold, Mass-Produce Beijing Olympic Logo
Northwestern University nanoscientist Chad A. Mirkin has mass-produced the 2008 Summer Olympics logo -- 15,000 times. All the logos take up only one square centimeter of space.
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| 7/19/2008 4:22:26 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Activity
A team of investigators at Northwestern University’s Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics has developed a new type of nanoparticle-based assay that appears to be both accurate and sensitive enough for clinical use.
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| 7/19/2008 4:20:17 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Nanocantilevers Image Nanoparticles in Cells
Borrowing from a Nobel Prize winner's technique credited with starting the nanotechnology revolution, a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Northwestern University’s Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics has developed a method for imaging nanoparticles inside of cells.
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| 5/21/2008 9:37:25 PM | Materials | 0 comments |
By Adding Graphene, Researchers Create Superior Polymer
Researchers at Northwestern University and Princeton University have created a new kind of polymer that, because of its extraordinary thermal and mechanical properties, could be used in everything from airplanes to solar cells.
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| 4/9/2008 10:01:36 PM | Nanotubes | 0 comments |
Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'
Carbon nanotubes are promising materials for many high-technology applications due to their exceptional mechanical, thermal, chemical, optical and electrical properties.
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| 4/2/2008 2:39:39 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Promising New Nanotechnology for Spinal Cord Injury
Northwestern University researchers have shown that a nano-engineered gel inhibits the formation of scar tissue at the injury site and enables the severed spinal cord fibers to regenerate and grow.
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| 3/31/2008 5:04:22 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Self-Assembled Materials Form Mini Stem Cell Lab
Imagine having one polymer and one small molecule that instantly assemble into a flexible but strong sac in which you can grow human stem cells, creating a sort of miniature laboratory. And that sac, if used for cell therapy, could cloak the stem cells from the human body’s immune system and biodegrade upon arriving at its destination, releasing the stem cells to do their work.
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| 2/23/2008 3:29:41 AM | Energy | 0 comments |
Could blue jean dye and white house paint solve the energy crisis?
The technology would use tiny nanostructures to convert sunlight into energy, similarly to the process of photosynthesis in plants.
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| 1/23/2008 8:54:27 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Localize and Control Drug Delivery
Using nanotechnology, scientists from UCLA and Northwestern University have developed a localized and controlled drug delivery method that is invisible to the immune system, a discovery that could provide newer and more effective treatments for cancer and other diseases.
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| 12/15/2007 11:06:11 AM | Events | 0 comments |
Free Town Hall Meetings to Examine Nanotechnology
Northwestern University is hosting two nanotechnology town hall meetings, Dec. 19 and Jan. 8, each featuring an expert delivering a talk in plain English, followed by questions from the audience.
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| 12/9/2007 10:22:29 AM | Drug Delivery | 0 comments |
Polymer Cage Stabilizes Liposome, Improves Drug Delivery
Researchers at the Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at Northwestern University have developed a method for stabilizing liposomes within a polymer cage.
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| 11/11/2007 11:51:00 AM | Drug Delivery | 0 comments |
Mining Tiny Diamonds for Drug Delivery
Northwestern University researchers have shown that nanodiamonds are effective at delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects associated with current drug delivery agents
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| 10/13/2007 12:45:43 AM | Drug Delivery | 0 comments |
Nanoengineers mine tiny diamonds for drug delivery
Northwestern University researchers have shown that
nanodiamonds -- much like the carbon structure as that of a sparkling 14
karat diamond but on a much smaller scale -- are very effective at
delivering chemotherapy drugs to cells without the negative effects
associated with current drug delivery agents.
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| 10/6/2007 4:05:22 PM | Nanofabrication | 0 comments |
Nanofabrication method pave way for new optical devices
An innovative and inexpensive way of making nanomaterials on a large scale has resulted in novel forms of advanced materials that pave the way for exceptional and unexpected optical properties.
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| 8/10/2007 8:47:04 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Researchers Directly Deposit Gold Nanoparticles In Suspension
Researchers from Northwestern University have now demonstrated the ability of a third-generation nanofountain probe (NFP) to directly deposit gold nanoparticles, 15 nanometers in diameter, onto silicon substrates.
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| 7/28/2007 8:43:39 AM | Materials | 0 comments |
Graphene Oxide Paper Could Spawn a New Class of Materials
Researchers at Northwestern University have fabricated a new type of paper that they hope will create a revolution of its own -- and while it won't replace your notepad, this remarkably stiff and strong yet lightweight material should find use in a wide variety of applications.
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| 6/6/2007 7:16:10 PM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
Making strides in quantum dot infrared photodetectors
Researchers at Northwestern University have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biological imaging, environmental and chemical monitoring, night vision and infrared imaging from space.
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| 5/19/2007 3:47:14 PM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
Making Strides In Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors
Researchers at Northwestern University have made significant strides in the development of quantum dot infrared photodetectors -- technology that may provide new imaging techniques with applications in medical and biological imaging, environmental and chemical monitoring, night vision and infrared imaging from space.
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| 5/7/2007 6:57:40 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Nanotechnology May Be Used to Regenerate Tissues, Organs
Research at Northwestern University has shown that a combination of nanotechnology and biology may enable damaged tissues and organs to heal themselves
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| 4/30/2007 12:43:20 AM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Gold Nanoparticles Help Detect a Toxic Metal: Mercury
With gold nanoparticles, DNA and some smart chemistry as their tools, scientists at Northwestern have developed a simple "litmus test" for mercury that eventually could be used for on-the-spot environmental monitoring of bodies of water, such as rivers, streams, lakes and oceans, to evaluate their safety as food and drinking water sources.
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| 4/13/2007 12:28:26 AM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
Quantum dot lasers -- 1 dot makes all the difference
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford and Northwestern Universities have built micrometer-sized solid-state lasers in which a single quantum dot can play a dominant role in the device’s performance
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| 3/31/2007 6:51:16 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Novel Experiments on Cement Yield Concrete Results
Findings may lead to a better understanding of the contribution of the nanoscale structure of cement to its durability, and how to improve it.
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| 1/28/2007 3:56:40 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Engineered Magnetic Nanoparticles Image Small Tumors
Iron oxide nanoparticles have shown promise as agents for detecting tumors using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but such efforts have been limited by the relatively weak magnetic signal generated by these nanoparticles.
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| 12/22/2006 4:32:00 PM | Electronics | 0 comments |
New research could lead to "invisible" electronics
Northwestern University researchers report that by combining organic and inorganic materials they have produced transparent, high-performance transistors that can be assembled inexpensively on both glass and plastics.
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| 11/19/2006 10:04:26 AM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Nanoparticle-Arsenic Combination Makes for More Potent Anticancer Agent
Arsenic trioxide, one of most promising drugs for treating acute promyelocytic leukemia, could achieve broader use if encapsulated in lipid-based nanoparticles designed to release their cargo inside tumor cells.
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| 10/14/2006 12:28:22 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Scientists from Northwestern University have demonstrated a novel carbon nanotube-based nanoelectromechanical switch
The device could help advance technological developments in memory chips and electronic sensing devices.
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| 10/4/2006 10:57:25 PM | Nanotubes | 0 comments |
Making Carbon Nanotubes Commercially Viable
Method Could Help Carbon Nanotubes Become Commercially Viable
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| 9/26/2006 6:38:19 PM | Research | 0 comments |
55,000 Tiny Thomas Jeffersons Show Power of New Method
Northwestern University researchers have developed a 55,000-pen, two-dimensional array that allows them to simultaneously create 55,000 identical patterns drawn with tiny dots of molecular ink on substrates of gold or glass. Each structure is only a single molecule tall.
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| 7/23/2006 11:00:53 PM | Materials | 0 comments |
Research Paves Way for New Composite Materials
Northwestern University researchers have developed a process that promises to lead to the creation of a new class of composite materials -- "graphene-based materials."
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| 7/9/2006 11:23:35 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Multiple Cancer Biomarkers Detected Simultaneously
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology revolutionized diagnostic medicine and basic research through its ability to amplify and detect minute amounts of specific DNA sequences
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| 6/2/2006 6:26:11 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Biobarcode Nanoparticles Enable Multiplexed DNA Detection
Gold nanoparticles containing DNA "barcodes" may provide that next generation technology
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| 5/29/2006 1:57:45 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Nanoparticles Improve Antisense Delivery and Expression
A team of investigators at Northwestern University’s Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has successfully used gold nanoparticles to not only deliver antisense DNA molecules safely into cancer cells, but also improve the ability of the antisense DNA to bind to its target
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| 5/22/2006 1:18:14 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Gold nanoparticles could improve antisense cancer drugs
Using gold nanoparticles combined with DNA, scientists at Northwestern University now have demonstrated a new method for developing antisense drugs that outperform conventional antisense agents
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| 4/27/2006 12:00:23 AM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Gold Nanoparticles Screen for Novel DNA Binding Drugs
Thanks to nanotechnology, researchers have a sorely needed technique for rapidly screening potential triplex binders.
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| 3/29/2006 10:05:21 PM | Research | 0 comments |
New 'litmus test' could aid discovery of anti-cancer drugs
Using the unusual color properties of gold at the nanoscale, scientists at Northwestern University have developed a "litmus test" for DNA and small molecule binding that eventually could be used by pharmaceutical companies to rapidly identify promising candidates for new anti-cancer drugs.
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| 3/5/2006 9:06:56 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Transistor-Cantilever Combo Detects Biomolecules With High Sensitivity
Microcantilevers, tiny devices that resemble a diving board, show great promise for detecting rare disease-related molecules that might be present in biological samples.
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| 12/25/2005 1:10:00 AM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Tracking Nanomaterials In Vivo
Researchers at Northwestern University have been developing a toolbox of synthetic amino acids (related to building blocks of proteins) that assemble themselves into complex structures that may prove useful in drug delivery and tissue engineering applications
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| 10/6/2005 10:00:06 PM | Industry | 0 comments |
Innovation Alliance on Nanotechnology In Final Negotiations between Ford, Boeing and Northwestern University
Ford Motor Company, The Boeing Company and Northwestern University to
form a new innovation alliance to collaborate on nanotechnology
research for future automobiles and aerospace products.
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| 10/3/2005 4:07:49 PM | Grants | 0 comments |
Northwestern to establish a Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE)
The new center will develop innovative nanotechnology approaches and devices to combat cancer.
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| 9/13/2005 11:35:48 PM | Defense | 0 comments |
Tiny avalanche photodiodes target bioterrorism agents
The Northwestern team, led by center director Manijeh Razeghi, became the first to demonstrate 280 nanometer APDs. These devices, based on aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) compound semiconductors, have a photocurrent gain of more than 700.
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| 8/10/2005 5:27:20 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Tough new probe developed for nanotechnologists
Since the invention of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in 1986 by Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig, the tool has been employed to advance the science of materials in many ways, from nanopatterning (dip-pen nanolithography) to the imaging of surfaces and nano-objects such as carbon nanotubes, DNA, proteins and cells.
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| 8/5/2005 5:23:35 PM | Defense | 0 comments |
Tiny infrared laser holds promise as weapon against terror
In a significant breakthrough, researchers at Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices have demonstrated a specialized diode laser that holds promise as a weapon of defense in both civilian and military applications.
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| 7/30/2005 10:59:28 PM | | 0 comments |
Single molecule is in driver's seat of molecular machine
While the human body has plenty of specialized molecular motors and machines powering the mechanical work necessary for cells to function properly, scientists themselves face many hurdles as they try to create their own molecular machines in the laboratory.
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| 7/4/2005 12:07:37 PM | Research | 0 comments |
A giant step toward tiny functional nanowires
Carving a telephone pole is easy if you have the right tools, say a power saw and some large chisels. And with some much tinier tools you could even carve a design into a paper clip if you wanted to. But shrink your sights down to the nanoscale, to a nanowire that is 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a paper clip, and you find there are no physical tools to do the job properly.
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| 4/28/2005 7:21:05 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Innovative fountain pen writes on the nanoscale
The first practical fountain pen was invented in 1884 by Lewis Waterman. Although pens with self-contained ink reservoirs had existed for more than a hundred years before his invention, they suffered from ink leaks and other troubles. Waterman solved these problems by inventing the capillary feed which produced even ink flow. Now fountain pen history is repeating itself in the tiny world of nanoscale writing.
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| 2/2/2005 9:15:37 PM | Bio/Medicine, Research | 0 comments |
Nanoscale Diagnostic Sets Sights on Alzheimer’s
Using their novel bio-bar-code amplification technology, researchers analyzing fluid from around the brain and spinal cord have detected a protein linked in recent studies to Alzheimer’s disease.
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| 10/23/2004 8:06:35 PM | Industry | 0 comments |
NanoInk Founder and Northwestern University Professor Chad Mirkin Wins the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology
The Feynman Prize is given in honor of Nobel laureate Richard P. Feynman, considered a pioneer in the nanotechnology arena.
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| 10/20/2004 1:00:25 PM | Bio/Medicine | 0 comments |
Nanotechnology: Tiny tools fight diseases at molecular level
Cellular strategy
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| 10/4/2004 2:45:01 PM | Research, Investment | 0 comments |
NSF Funds First Nanoscale Center for Learning and Teaching
With a five-year, $15,000,000 grant to Northwestern University, the National Science Foundation is funding the nation’s first Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering (NCLT).
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| 1/20/2004 6:47:27 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Nano Chemists Make Curved Structures
The natural world is full of curves and three dimensions, but the ability to deliberately and rationally construct such complex structures using nanoscale building blocks has eluded nanotechnologists who are eager to add curved structures to their toolbox.
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