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December 2008

• Revolutionising Diagnostics with a Little Help from Nature
  
  
• Tiny Delivery System With A Big Impact On Cancer Cells
  
  
• Nontoxic Clean-up Method for Common, Potentially Toxic Nano Materials
  
  
• Researchers Print Dense Lattice of Transparent Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base
  
  
• Tiny Magnetic Crystals in Bacteria are a Compass
  
  
• Lethal 'Lint Brush' Captures and Kills Cancer Cells in the Bloodstream
  
  
• Science of Santa: Special Deliveries in the St Nick of Time
  
  
• New Hybrid Nanostructures Detect Nanoscale Magnetism
  
  
• Rusnanotech: Russia Shows Europe How to Showcase Nanotechnology Achievements
  
  
• New Record Set for Quantum Memory Storage and Retrieval
  
  
• Smarty Pants! Nanotube Clothing Glows in Response to Allergens
  
  
• Researchers Use Optical Lattice as a Construction Kit
  
  
• 'Stress Tests' Probe Nanoscale Strains in Materials
  
  
• Wet Winter Weather may be Healthier than a Wonderland
  
  
• Good Vibrations: Measuring Sound with a Nanoscopic Air Bubble
  
  
• Could Nanotech Create Speech-powered Phones?
  
  
• Magnetic Nanotags Allow Sensitive Detection of Cancer Biomarkers
  
  
• New Holographic Method for Lab-on-a-Chip Technologies
  
  
• Working with Miraculous Microbes
  
  
• Scientists Induce 'Handedness' in Pre-biological Molecules
  
  
• Tablet-sized Robots are Smooth Operators

November 2008

• Polymer Solar Cells Created with Higher Efficiency Levels
  
  
• Fast Molecular Arrangements Hold Key to Plastic's Toughness
  
  
• Nanotube Switching Effect Discovered
  
  
• 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' - Photon Force Drives Nanomachines
  
  
• What's the Smallest One of All? - High-precision Mirror Focuses Radiation, Spots Nano Sizes
  
  
• Mother of Pearl Reveals Mysterious Secret
  
  
• Atomic Dance Moves Shake up MRIs
  
  
• Nanomanufactured Polymer Film Could Lead to Lower-cost Solar Cells
  
  
• Baby Steps: Tiny Cell Proteins Generate a Force to Walk
  
  
• Data Storage Spins into the Future
  
  
• Artificial Implants for Joint Replacement No Longer Hip
  
  
• Boron the Builder Has a Future in Football
  
  
• Animation Brings Nano to Life, Demystifies Complex Science
  
  
• Polymers "battered" with Nanoparticles Could Create Self-healing Paints and Clever Packaging
  
  
• Launch of Revolutionary Handheld Drug Detection Device
  
  
• Swimming is a Drag for Bacteria, Brown Physicists Explain
  
  
• IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain
  
  
• Researchers Reshape the Future of Drug Discovery
  
  
• Scientists Make Underwater Glue with Mussel Power
  
  
• Don't Call me Scarface! New Nanofibres May Lead to Scar-Free Healing
  
  
• Making Materials Untouchable - New Designs for Materials that Repel all Liquids
  
  
• Researchers Show that Plants May Accumulate Nanoparticles in Tissues
  
  
• Nanoparticles and Cell Death
  
  
• Nanowires are a Step Closer to Electronics Manufacturing
  
  
• What you got Cookin? 150 Nanoparticle Experiments Conducted in Kitchens
  
  
• Student Manufactures Collagen Nanofibres for Synthetic Knee Cartilage
  
  
• Miniaturizing Memory: Data Storage Reaches Molecular Level
  
  
• The Institute of Nanotechnology Responds to ‘Small Wonder: Nanotechnology and Cosmetics’
  
  
• The Case of Nanotechnology: Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution Issues Report
  
  
• NanopartzTM Release Gold Nanowires
  
  
• Nanomaterial Breakthrough for Implantable Medical Devices
  
  
• New Method Captures Catalysis One Molecule at a Time
  
  
• Nanoscientists Aid Antibacterial Drug
  
  
• Engineered Assassin Cells Unmask Deadly HIV
  
  
• Cheap, Self-Assembling Optics
  
  
• Just Scratching the Surface: New Technique Maps Nanomaterials as They Grow
  
  
• Detecting Tiny Twists with a Nanomachine
  
  
• AIST Develops Safe, Environment-friendly Cyan-free Gold Plating
  
  
• 'Small Wonder? Nanotechnology and Cosmetics', published by Which? on 5th November 2008: A Response by the Institute of Nanotechnology
  
  
• Nanobama - The Making of a President
  
  
• Tiny DNA Tweezers Catch and Release Objects on Demand
  
  
• Field Hospital on a Chip
  
  
• Down the Tube: How Defects Make Nano-Objects Better
  
  
• Molecular Double Whammy against Malignant Melanoma
  
  
• CNTs Will Rock You : Hot Nanotube Sheet Sounds Like a Plan for Flat Speakers
  

October 2008

• Novel Signalling Molecule Could Unlock Hundreds of New Antibiotics
  
  
• New Mass Sensor Measures with Atomic Precision
  
  
• Device Delivers Virus Count in Minutes
  
  
• Nanoparticles Target Multiple Cancer Genes
  
  
• Sea Urchins Hold Secret Key to Biomineralisation
  
  
• Scaled-down Soldering Stabilizes Circuits
  
  
• Non-invasive Disease Diagnosis with "Wellness Cards"
  
  
• Denser Computer Chips Possible with Plasmonic Lenses that 'Fly'
  
  
• Singapore Scientist to Develop Human Virus Catcher
  
  
• To Insulate or Not to Insulate?
  
  
• Self-Assembling "Organic Wires" to Mimic Human Tissue
  
  
• China Fabricates First ZnO Nanorod Field-effect Transistor
  
  
• Ion Jelly Could Satisfy Appetite for Greener Batteries
  
  
• Paper Aeroplanes are 500 Times Stronger than Steel
  
  
• Anti-Cancer Brew Reaches Parts Other Beers Cannot Reach
  
  
• Vertical Graphene Sheets Sensing Biomolecules
  
  
• New Research Field Promises Radical Advances in Optical Technologies
  
  
• Nanoscale Smart Coatings Protect Products and Fortify Materials
  
  
• Crossing the Border: study shows how proteins permit entry to a cell
  
  
• Diatom Genome Helps Explain Their Great Diversity and Success in Trapping Excess Carbon in Oceans
  
  
• Removal of 'Super-polluters' Could Cut Pollution from Nanoparticles by 25%
  
  
• What's in your Trolley?
  
  
• Extreme Nature No Match for Tough Nano Building Blocks
  
  
• Living Cells Used as Nano Factories
  
  
• Physicists Pull off the Gecko's Feat
  
  
• Nanotechnology Improves Food Safety by Detecting Prions
  
  
• Superbug-Busting Antibiotic Reveals its Secrets
  
  
• Tiny Lens Brings Colour to the Nanoworld
  
  
• Nanofridge for Microchips in Smaller and Faster Computers
  
  
• Crystals Could Lead to More Energy Efficient Materials
  
  
• Imec Paves the Way Towards Skin-Like Foils
  
  
• Nanoscopic Screening Process to Speed Drug Discovery
  
  
• How Nanotechnology Can Help Wean World off Fossil Fuels
  
  
• Scientist Sees Enzyme that Converts Light into Brain Signals
  
  
• Disappearing Dresses, Dissolving Bottles
  
  
• Researchers Observe Bacterial Crisis Command Centre
  
  
• Japanese Government Locates New Nanotechnology Research Satellite at University of Cambridge
  
  
• Nanotechnology Deployed in Textiles to Fight Global MRSA Bug
  
  
• First Atomic-Scale Compositional Images of Fuel-Cell Nanoparticles
  
  
• Swimming Bacteria Sort Themselves Out
  
  
• Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
  
  
• It's Electrifying! Eels Shape Up Cells For Medical Implants
  
  
• Scientists Develop Magnetic Nanoparticle Contrast Agents for Blood Cells
  
  
• Skin Deep Particles Could Seep Further
  
  
• Nanoparticles Deliver Treatment for Brain, Spinal Cord Injuries
  
  
• Disease Diagnosis in Just 15 Minutes
  
  
• Amazon Rain Forest Reveals Nano Secrets
  
  
• Like Water off ... a Waterstrider's Legs
  

September 2008

• Hybrid Nanoparticles Image and Treat Tumours
  
  
• Top Gear to a Quantum World with Spoke Wheels
  
  
• Honeycomb Nanotube Material Offers Better Noise Reduction
  
  
• Women in Heart Graft Empowered by Nano Lifeline
  
  
• Novel Nanocomposite Gel Could Revolutionise Cell Culture
  
  
• Fungi with 'Bling' Make for Powerful Catalysts and Disinfectants
  
  
• Smoothest Surface Ever Could Lead to First Atomic Microscope
  
  
• Cloaked Nanoparticles May Mean Rethink for Drug Targeting
  
  
• Colloids Twist Like DNA
  
  
• Coating Improves Electrical Stimulation Therapy for Parkinson's, Depression, Chronic Pain
  
  
• Important Twist in Supercapacitor Research
  
  
• Buckyballs Have High Potential to Accumulate in Living Tissue, Breakdown in Sunlight
  
  
• Stronger, Lighter and Safer Cars from a Load of Abalone
  
  
• Nature Provides Nano Coating Template on the Fly
  
  
• Graphene Offers Storage of Large Quantities of Renewable Electrical Energy
  
  
• SiC Quantum Dots Image Live Cells
  
  
• Nano Flower Power Boosts Energy Storage
  
  
• Calculation of Graphene's Ideal Strength Confirmed by Tests
  
  
• Water Runs Through It: Simulations help explain fast water transport in nanotubes
  
  
• Nanoparticles Go Bob Bob Bobbin', Create Controllable Surface Patterns
  
  
• Biomimicking of Skin and Muscle Moves Ahead with Nanotech
  
  
• Statins and Nanoparticles Team Up to Tackle Atherosclerosis
  
  
• Quantum Insights Could Enable Research, Military and Medical Uses
  
  
• Nano Cargo Ships Launched to Destroy Tumours
  
  
• Cell Slicing Method Cuts Solar Power Waste
  
  
• 'Finding Nano', Molecules 'Max' Out at the Movies
  
  
• Nanoscale Silver: Old Problem, New Challenge
  
  
• Engineers Create New Gecko-like Adhesive that Shakes off Dirt
  
  
• New Theory Could Solve Ancient Mystery of Glass
  
  
• EU Invests in Large Scale Development of Sustainable Wood-based Composite
  
  
• New Nano Device Detects Cell-to-Cell Signalling in Immune System
  
  
• White Paint and UV Light Kill Deadly Superbugs
  
  
• A New 'Pyrex' Nanoparticle
  
  
• Toward Textile-based Solar Cells
  
  
• Tiny Gold Clusters Identified as Top-Notch Catalysts
  
  
• Antibiotics Improved by Marine Diatom Proteins
  
  
• Lancaster University Seeks Alzheimer's Breakthrough
  
  
• Nano Distillation Detects Disease, Purifies Water
  
  
• Nanoparticles Hunt Down Cancer Cells
  
  
• Helium Ions Replace Electrons in Novel Microscope Technology
  
  
• Researchers to Examine Health Impact of Inhaled NanoMetals
  
  
• Tobacco - The Killer's Key to a Revolutionary Cure
  
  
• How to Tell your Pinot from your Plonk
  
  
• 'Lab On A Chip' Improves IVF Success
  
  
• Scientists Grow 'Nanonets' to Capture and Transfer Electrical Charge
  
  
• Switchable Bio-adhesion
  
  
• Researchers Zoom in on Malaria-infected Cells
  
  
• Cancer Research Breakthrough May Be 'Magic Bullet'
  
  
• Explosives Go 'Green'
  
  
• DNA Tubes Created with Programmable Circumferences for Nanoscale Manufacturing
  
  
• Graphene Pioneers Scoop Major Award
  
  
• Shine a Light! Scientists Take Sharpest Image Ever

August 2008

• Iran Makes Nanoclay Toxicity Breakthrough
  
  
• EU to Invest Millions in Nanotech for Sustainable Packaging
  
  
• Surgery Gets a Grip with a Helping Hand
  
  
• Nanotomography is Crystal Clear
  
  
• Life under the Laser
  
  
• Nanostructures Get a Taste of Honey
  
  
• DNA Bar-coding 'Ringing Up' Wrong Data
  
  
• Researchers Add Silicon to Iron, Create Highly Unconventional Metal
  
  
• Church Windows Help See the Light, Cleanse the Air
  
  
• Scientists 'Sniff Out' Early Cancer
  
  
• Nano 'Trojan Horse' Aids Anti-Oxidant Stealth Mission
  
  
• Landslide Victory for Wireless Nanosensors
  
  
• Light Finds its Way Through Opaque Layers
  
  
• Waste Material Transformed into Ethanol
  
  
• Queen's Chemist Designs New 'Catch-and-Tell' Molecules
  
  
• Researchers Develop Synthetic Collagen for Cell Growth and More
  
  
• IoN and Cranfield University Sign MoU
  
  
• Feel the Vibe and Move your Body
  
  
• Hydrogel Provides Nano Frame for Bone Cell Growth
  
  
• Slipping through Cell Walls: Nanotubes Pack a Punch, Destroy Cancer in Mice
  
  
• Nanotech Solution Brings Clean Drinking Water to a Thirsty World
  
  
• Chemists Take Gold in Mass-Producing Olympic Logo
  
  
• Nano Star of the Olympic 400m
  
  
• Scientists See Nano in the Making
  
  
• All Blacks Get Stitched Up
  
  
• Designer RNA Stops Rise of High Cholesterol
  
  
• Fruit Fly Provides Biotemplate for Compound Lens
  
  
• Coated Film is Lethal Weapon against Bacteria
  
  
• Japanese Researchers Slip Some Stretchable 'E-skin'
  
  
• Autos to Generate Electricity from Exhaust Heat
  
  
• Invisibility within Sight as New Materials Bend Light Backwards
  
  
• Nanowires from DNA
  
  
• Plastics Chill Out in Electric Fields
  
  
• Catching Rays - Collecting Energy from the Sun Using Antennae
  
  
• The Eye-Camera Takes Shape
  
  
• Aerial Nano-Sensors to Measure Emissions during China's Industrial 'Shutdown'
  
  
• Nanomedicine Therapies: The Shape of Things to Come
  
  
• Contact Lenses Feel the Pressure
  
  
• Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg
  
  
• Scientists Hot on the Trail of Climate Change Prediction
  
  
• Worming Towards the Development of a Living Sensor
  
  
• Body Armour Built to Scale - Dinosaur Eel Scale!
  
  
• The Most Advanced X-Ray Holograms Yet
  
  
• Scientists Pour Oil on Troubled Waters
  
  
• New Nano Tagging System to Help Solve Gun Crime
  
  
• NanoCharM Consortium Invites Characterisation and Materials Community Participation
  

July 2008

• Health Protection Agency Sets Up New National Nanotoxicology Research Centre
  
  
• US Seeks to Attract New Nanotech Energy Applications
  
  
• EC's JRC Head States Risk Concerns 'Must Be Addressed'
  
  
• NIST Membrane Model May Hold Key to Unlock Early-Stage Alzheimer's Secrets
  
  
• Nanoparticle Research Points to Cool Energy Savings
  
  
• Melamed Announces Russia's Plans for Blood Plasma Cleaning
  
  
• High-res X-ray Microscope Offers New Insight
  
  
• Revolutionary Mouthwash Ensures Happy and Healthy Smiles
  
  
• 'Nanosculpture' Technique Creates New Potential for Heat Pumps, Energy Converters and Medical Applications
  
  
• Molecular Hula Hoop Rotates in <300 Milliseconds
  
  
• New Zealand Awards Fellowships for Discovery
  
  
• Institute of Engineering In Medicine Launched by UC San Diego to Accelerate 21st Century Health Care
  
  
• Nanotechnology Inspires Digital Artists
  
  
• Purdue Offer Online Simulation Tools for Atomic Force Microscopy
  
  
• Invisible Nanotube Cable May Support a Human
  
  
• Consumers Accept Nanotechnology In Food And Packaging
  
  
• Nanoparticles Detect Telomerase Enzyme Activity
  
  
• Palm Sized Biosensor Detects Threats Without External Power Source
  
  
• Hong Kong Scientists Make Zeolite Membrane Micro Fuel Cell
  
  
• Bangalore Pitched as Nanotechnology Hub
  
  
• Education Raises Consumer Concern
  
  
• IBM to invest $1.5 bln in nanotechnology
  
  
• Raman Spectoscopy Reveals DNA in Action
  
  
• Researchers Generate Hydrogen with Zero Carbon Footprint
  
  
• Drug-Coated Nanoparticles to Target Paediatric Brain Tumours
  
  
• Research on the Carcinogenicity of Nanoparticles and other Dusts
  
  
• Controlled Fullerite Growth to Enhance Devices
  
  
• Nanotubes Go into Mass Production
  
  
• Nano-sized Electronic Circuit Sheds Light on the Early Universe
  
  
• Stem Cells Act as Anti-Cancer Drug Couriers
  
  
• Solar Energy - A Pane in the Glass
  
  
• Report: Drug Delivery Using Nanotechnologies
  - Technologies, Markets and Competitive Environment



• Webcast: The Age of Nanotechnology
  - IET / IoN Joint Guest Lecture with Professor Jim Gimzewski, UCLA



• New Line of Lasers for Biomedicine



• Japanese Chemists Create DNA Molecule from Artificial Parts



• Coated Fullerenes Have Potential To Be New Hydrogen-Storage Material



• Electronic Nose Developed for Quick Detection of Explosives



• Natural Bio-Army Trained to Fight Cancer



• Zinc Nanoparticles Help Catch the Crooks



• New High Performance, Low Power Sensor at Nanoscale



• Quantum Dots Can Penetrate Skin Through Minor Abrasions



• Visualizing Atomic-scale Acoustic Waves in Nanostructures



• Caged-in Hydrogen Atom Could Help Storage Efficiency



• More than Meets the Eye - The LED Contact Lens



• Gold and DNA Combined Could Make Nanosensor



• Super Atom Clusters Give 3rd Dimension to Periodic Table



• Water Is Not What We Thought It Was



• Caterpillars Inspire Development of Morphing Chemical Robots



• A Quantum Leap Over the Qubit Hurdle



• Nanoweapon Deployed in the Fight against Cancer

June 2008

• Quantum Computing Breakthrough Arises from Unknown Molecule



• New Efficiency Benchmark for Dye-sensitized Solar Cells



• Accidental Fungus Leads to Promising Cancer Drug



• Novel Nanomaterial Traps Hazardous Mercury Vapours



• Proteins Put On a Moving Performance



• On the Boil: New Nano Technique Significantly Boosts Boiling Efficiency



• Nanotubes Could Aid Understanding of Retrovirus Transmission Between Human Cells



• Volcano 'Pollution' Solves Mercury Mystery



• New Process Creates 3-D Nanostructures with Magnetic Materials



• Metals Form Porous Nanostructures for Better Fuel Cells and Microchips



• Automakers 'Convert' with Nanotechnology as PGM Prices Soar



• Tethered Molecules Act as Light-driven Reversible Nanoswitches



• Using Nanotechnology to Inject Gene-Silencing Tools into Cells



• Wireless Health Monitor Gets Wellcome Backing



• Accidental Discovery Could Enable Development of Faster Computers



• Nano 'Scalpel' Targets Individual Cells



• There's Nano Gold in Them Thar Hills!



• Microscopic "Clutch" Puts Flagellum in Neutral



• Cadaveric Bone Implants: Cheap Alternatives in Bone Regeneration Therapy



• Soy-Based Hydrogel Ready for Biomedical Exploration



• Immune Responses Jolted into Action by Nanohorns



• A Breakthrough in the Glass Barrier



• Genetically Engineered Cells Make their own Nanomagnets



• Disease Detection - Best Bar None



• Computers Chill Out with a Nano Fridge



• Reinventing Water with Nanotechnology



• Nano Grand Design Wraps up Climate Change



• Nanotechnology Research is 10 Millionth Record on Inspec Database



• Honda Unveils First Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car



• Quantum Rods Probe Blood-Brain Barrier



• Researchers Develop Ultra Low-cost Plastic Memory



• Nanoparticles Trigger Built-In Cell-Death Signal to Overcome Drug Resistance



• Windbag Researchers Develop Novel Renewable Energy Storage



• Effective Hydrogen Storage Moves a Step Closer



• Tumour Nanoparticles Trigger Pancreatic Cancer Cell Death



• Nanoparticles Aid Bone Density



• Investigators Inhibit Corneal Inflammation Using Nanoparticles



• Nanoscientists Create Golden Fleece... of Many Colours



• Nanoparticles Help Restore Pigments of Old Masterpiece



• Smart Implants to Provide Biofeedback



• Nanoparticles 'Mussel in' on Aquatic Wildlife



• 'Nanoglassblowing' Expands Study of Individual Molecules



• Electron Windmills: A Novel Design for Nanomotors



• Students 'Space Out' with Nano Dust Detector



• A Nano Leap for the Thai Cosmetic Industry



• TU Delft Unveils New Sustainable Race Car



• Stripes instead of Layers: Miniaturizing magnetic sensors by means of ion technology



• Europe Takes the Pole Position in Flexible Display Market



• Industrial Dye Holds the Key to Advancing Spintronics



• Nano Pavlova in Microrobotic Ballet



• Nanotechnology Used to Regenerate Cartilage Naturally



• Nanotech Waterbox for African Desert



• Artificial Limb Feels the Power of Thought



• Nano Innovations to Clean Up Catastrophic Oil Spills



• Cell Imaging Technology Propelled by Science Synergy



• Moving Molecules Within Molecules



• UQ Researchers Develop Novel Renewable Energy Materials



• Research Measures Movement of Nanomaterials in Simple Model Food Chain

May 2008

• Quantum Laser Emits New Light
  
  
• How Buckyballs Hurt Cells
  
  
• Brown Chemists Develop Tiniest Cancer-Detecting Nanoparticles
  
  
• Light-driven Molecular Brakes for Nanomachines
  
  
• Weizmann Institute Scientists Create New Nanotube Structures
  
  
• Inaugural Lecture Describes Polymers that Replicate Nerves, Noses, Muscles & Tongues
  
  
• European Parliament Gives Green Light to Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Technology Initiative
  
  
• DNA-repair Mechanism Witnessed in Real-time
  
  
• Insect Repellent Clothing to Save Lives
  
  
• Wearable Dialysis Machines Developed Using Kidney Cells
  
  
• 'Carbon nanotubes introduced into the abdominal cavity of mice show asbestos-like pathogenicity in a pilot study' Response from the Institute of Nanotechnology
  
  
• Counting Immune Cells on a 'Protein Printboard'
  
  
• NASA Nano-Biosensor Helps Detect Biohazards
  
  
• New Artificial Virus Delivers Therapeutic Agents Straight to Cells
  
  
• Fluorescent Nanostring Barcodes Transform Diagnostics
  
  
• HIV Drug Goes for Gold
  
  
• Artificial Leaves Promise a Brighter Future
  
  
• US Army and UAlbany NanoCollege Sign Research Partnership Agreement
  
  
• Brazilian Beetle Lights the Way for Optical Computers of the Future
  
  
• Protecting Nanotech Workers from Health Risks
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes and Deadly Doubts: Researchers clarify
  
  
• Ulster Scientists Develop DNA Biosensor Technology
  
  
• Carbon-coated Nanomagnets Show Potential as Cancer-killing Agents
  
  
• T-Ray Demo Promises Support for Range of Applications
  
  
• Solar Farming Breakthrough Means Cheaper Power
  
  
• Reverse Nanotechnology Uses Red Blood Cells to Calibrate Tools
  
  
• India Turns to Nanotechnology to Boost Growth of Agriculture
  
  
• Solar Cell Efficiency Hits a Record High
  
  
• Fabrication Technique Could Yield Low-cost, Scalable Nanowire Photonic and Electronic Circuits
  
  
• Nanoengines Boosted using Rocket Fuel and CNTs
  
  
• High-speed Spin Sorts Nanotubes by Length
  
  
• Alternative to Silicon Chip Invented
  
  
• Bend it Like a Nanobot
  
  
• Cheap Nano Power Set to Electrify Rural Homes
  
  
• Enzyme Coat Kills Germs, Digests Stains
  
  
• Plant Self-regulation System Synthesized at Nanoscale
  
  
• Nano Blood-stopper Starts Clinical Trials
  
  
• Biochips Give Early Warnings of Pre-symptomatic Cancer
  
  
• Nanomaterials Feel the Pressure
  
  
• Sweet Success for Creator of Artificial Golgi Apparatus
  
  
• Global Warming: French Scientists Capture CO2
  
  
• Contact through Silver Particles in Ink
  
  
• Institute of Nanotechnology Announces New Chair
  
  
• Nanotec Researches Bi-component Fibres for Thai Industry
  
  
• Cell-Based Sensors Sniff Out Danger Like Bloodhounds
  
  
• Melting Defects Could Lead to Smaller, More Powerful Chips
  
  
• Smart Nanoworms Designed to Destroy Tumours
  
  
• Chilli Sauce Piquancy Measured with Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• Ayurvedic Medicine May Realise Nano Dream
  
  
• Ocean Brought Ashore for Biomimetic Research
  
  
• Graphene-based Gadgets May Be Just Years Away
  
  
• Memories That Don't Forget: The Missing Circuit Element
  
  
• Nanotrees Offer New Twist on Nanowires
  

April 2008

• Too Much Technology May Be Harming the Good Bacteria
  
  
• Low-cost, Explosive Sparkle for Nanodiamonds
  
  
• Molecule of Life Mimicked for New Nano Building Block
  
  
• OLEDs Protected by Nano-engineered Barrier Film
  
  
• 'Risk Management for NanoBusinesses'
  
  
• Dishwashers Get a Load of Keyboards
  
  
• Nanoparticles Help Gauze Stop Gushing Wounds
  
  
• Buckyballs Give Flash a Boost
  
  
• Iran Invents Extremely Sticky Nanoglue
  
  
• Nanotechnology: Towards Reducing Animal Testing
  
  
• Gel-like Material Hints at Oral Insulin Pill for Diabetics
  
  
• Scientists Seek to Defeat Brain Cancer by Chipping away its Foundation from Various Angles
  
  
• A Silver Lining in the Fight Against Microbes
  
  
• Europe Spends Nearly Twice as Much as U.S. on Nanotech Risk Research
  
  
• Plastics to Disappear within Four Months of being Discarded
  
  
• Fissure Heal Thyself!
  
  
• Nanotechnology Paves Way for Super iPods
  
  
• Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously
  
  
• Saliva Can Help Diagnose Heart Attack, Study Shows
  
  
• Carbon nanotubes not toxic for mice
  
  
• Researchers create the first thermal nanomotor in the world
  
  
• ‘Nanodrop’ Test Tubes Created with a Flip of a Switch
  
  
• New method of measuring insulin promises improvements in diabetes treatment
  
  
• Spaghetti and nanotechnology self-assembly
  
  
• Researchers mimic bacteria to produce magnetic nanoparticles
  
  
• Popcorn-ball design doubles efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells
  
  
• New purification method could reduce the cost of cleaning water
  
  
• Nanoshuttle on the Right Track
  
  
• Spin Doctors Work to Improve Memory
  
  
• Food Safety Ideas Could Prove Fruitful
  
  
• Electromagnetic Waves Blocked by Nano Fabric
  
  
• Understanding Liquid Wetting to Benefit Nanotechnology Developments
  
  
• Next Generation Disk Aims at Petabyte Storage
  
  
• Hydrogen Fuel Cells Open up the Airways
  
  
• Scientists Warn of Toxic Socks
  
  
• Mud Wrestling with MRSA
  
  
• Armed to the Teeth with Nano Implant Coating
  
  
• Nano Gel Brings Hope for Spinal Cord Injury
  
  
• Nano-sized Technology has Super-sized Effect on Tumors
  
  
• Nano Battery Makes History
  
  
• Smart Cellulose Could Mean Flying Magic Paper
  
  
• Graphene Gazing Gives Glimpse of Foundations of Universe
  
  
• Engineers Make First Nanowire 'Active Matrix'
  
  
• Cancer Killing Machine Developed by Nanotechnology Researchers
  
  
• Nanosized Needles Can Be Used for Data Storage
  
  
• A Unique View of Disease
  
  
• Nano Research Could Lead to Cataract Treatment Breakthrough
  
  

March 2008

• Scientists Create New Flexible Circuit Boards
  
  
• Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Increase Effectiveness of Injected Drugs
  
  
• Two-photon Nanoparticles for the Improved Detection of Tumour Cells
  
  
• Has Silicon Had its Chips?
  
  
• Face Transplant Team Launch Nano Healing Gel
  
  
• Nanomedicine Prototype Restores Hair Follicles
  
  
• Atomic Force Pencil Writes Nanochannels
  
  
• Ivy Reveals its Gripping Secret
  
  
• Nano Analysis of Apple Hairs could Improve Food Storage
  
  
• Tuning in to Nanotube Radios
  
  
• A New Spin on Quantum Computing
  
  
• Using Nanotechnology and Nanoparticles to Improve Hearing
  
  
• "Nanominerals" Influence Earth Systems from Ocean to Atmosphere to Biosphere
  
  
• Flat-panel Displays Show Promise
  
  
• A Spitting Distance from Replacing Many Blood Tests
  
  
• Nanocloth Bags Help Students Go Green
  
  
• Nanowire LEDs Soon to Shed a New Light
  
  
• The Artificial Muscle that Heals itself and Charges an iPod
  
  
• Findings Could Improve Fuel Cell Efficiency
  
  
• Zooming in on Nanoparticles' Defects
  
  
• New Skin out of Old Shells
  
  
• Nanotubes Show Their Strengths in Polymer Fibres
  
  
• Nanomaterials Production Boosted by High-powered, Short Pulse Lasers
  
  
• Jet Engines Cool off on Fake Ice
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes Help Mend Bones
  
  
• The Million Dollar Professor
  
  
• Atoms Shape Up with Precision Sculpting
  
  
• Textiles of Tomorrow in the UK this Week
  
  
• Nano Sensors to Guide Bat-Inspired Robot Spy Plane
  
  
• How to Immobilise a Drop of Water
  
  
• Nanotechnology Improves Paper without Coating
  
  
• Molecular Computer could be 'Nanobot Brain'
  
  
• Making Solar Cheaper
  
  
• Skewered Pumpkins to Control Drug Transport
  
  
• Thinner, Stronger and More Flexible Research
  
  
• Diesel Exhaust Stresses Brain
  
  
• Colour Change Trick of Hercules Beetle Inspires Design of Intelligent Materials
  
  
• Plant Power Converts CO2 to Energy
  
  
• Hair-like Nanowires at Root of Solar's Future
  
  
• Nanorobots: Oil technology getting small in a big way
  
  
• Needle-free Vaccines
  
  
• Recycled eggs make ordered nanostructures
  
  
• Eco-friendly Power Paint: Colourful idea sparks renewable electricity
  
  
• Researchers Control Growth Rate of Replacement Blood Vessels and Tissues
  
  
• Adaptable Polymer Inspired by Sea Cucumbers
  
  
• Nanotechnology to Target and Destroy Parasites
  
  
• Danish Scientists Find Nanoparticles Affect Pollutant Toxicity
  
  
• Beauty or the Beast? EU Scientists issue safety warning on cosmetic nanomaterials
  
  
• Carbon Nanotubes Solve Problem of Hydrogen Storage
  
  
• Inkjet Prints Transparent Carbon Nanotube Film
  
  
• Atomic 'Chickenwire' Suppresses Unruly Electrons
  
  
• Quantum Computers Set to Render Current Security Encryption Obsolete
  
  
• A Big Step in Examination of Small Structures
  
  
• Anti-Cancer Smart Bomb Ready for Human Use
  
  
• Renewable Energy: a small solution for a big electricity problem
  
  
• Squeezed Electrons Shed Light on Silicon
  
  
• Feeding Vitamins to Bacteria Generates Electricity
  
  
• Nature Offers up Anti-reflective Nanostructure
  
  
• Smaller is Stronger
  
  
• The Atomic Etch-a-Sketch
  
  
• Physicists Roll out Nanotube Paper
  
  
• Meteorites Contain Graphite "Whiskers"
  
  

 

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