Monday, August 24th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_8655" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Georgia Tech researcher Eugenia Kharlampieva studies the properties of composite materials containing silk and metallic nanoparticles. Image courtesy of Gary Meek, Georgia Tech"][/caption]
From the wire: Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers at Georgia Tech have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_7609" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="(a) Vesicles with different reactants have different fluorescent substances in their membranes. (b) Red fluorescent nanoparticles form when the bubbles fuse. (c) The particles can be seen as bright dots under a transmission electron microscope. Image courtesy of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces"][/caption]
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
The uniform dispersal of nanosized particles in substrates such as resin is extremely difficult work and traditional methods have significant problems. Now nano level mixing has been made easy and without bubbles according to Intertronics, which reports it has the solution: the Thinky ARV-310 mixer.
The ARV-310 and its larger capacity ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
A study by bioengineers at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) indicates that amongst the different shapes of nanoparticles, stars may be the best for certain applications.
The essential factor is how light reflects off the particles. Compared with rods, cubes, cones and spheres, nanostars can significantly enhance the reflected light, which ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_1674" align="alignleft" width="303" caption="MIT researchers have developed a technique to attach a tiny polymeric patch to immune cells."][/caption]
Researchers at MIT have succeeded in attaching polymer-based patches to cells. Without interfering with the cell’s normal functions, the polymeric “backpacks” can be used to hold tiny amounts of cargo or to ...
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