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On the Editor’s Page at Medical DeviceLinkCom, Shana Leonard writes about the crucial need for design and modeling techniques to guide nanosystems development toward fabrication, and cites the ”

Drawing from numerous workshops held from 2005 to 2007, Battelle (Columbus, OH) and the Foresight Nanotech Institute (Menlo Park, CA) jointly released “Productive Nanosystems: A Technology [...]

Nanotech progress will benefit from tools that permit direct observation of nanometer-scale structural changes in nanosystems in the timescales over which these changes occur. Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope (DTEM) combines nanometer scale spatial resolution with 15 nanosecond temporal resolution. From DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, via AAAS EurekAlert ““:

Researchers have achieved a milestone in materials science [...]

A new material called chemically modified graphene (CMG) may lead to ultracapacitors that can store about twice as much electrical charge as is possible with current commercially available materials, thus offering a nanotech energy storage solution that could help make solar and wind power practical alternative energy sources. From the University of Texas at Austin, [...]

In another important step toward nanotech methods of drug delivery for cancer therapy, researchers have developed a nanoparticle that is stable enough inside an animal to deliver molecules to image a tumor in multiple ways and to deliver drugs to kill the tumor. The news release from the University of California - San Diego (via [...]

An increasingly serious research effort is being mounted to ensure the safe development and commercialization of nanotechnology (see, for example, “:

A team of materials scientists and toxicologists announced the formation of a new international research alliance to establish protocols for reproducible toxicological testing of nanomaterials in both cultured cells and animals. The International Alliance for [...]

Nanostructures called artificial atoms, which are usually semiconductor quantum dots a few nanometers in diameter, constitute an important approach to quantum computing. However, characterizing the energy levels of artificial atoms is difficult. A new method called amplitude spectroscopy may facilitate a nanotech pathway to quantum computing by making it easier to characterize the energy levels [...]

Some nanotech gold particles very effectively catalyze the oxidation of carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide—useful for protecting firefighters and fuel cells from carbon monoxide poisoning. A very powerful electron microscope capable of resolving single gold atoms has revealed why some gold nanoparticles work and some don’t—only bilayer clusters of 8-12 gold atoms work. Via “:

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A nanotech approach that makes use of artificial protein-like molecules called “single-component block copolypeptides” produces stable double emulsion nanoparticles. Because these nanoparticles can simultaneously deliver water-soluble and water-insoluble drugs, they might offer an advantage in killing cancer cells that develop resistance to one drug. From the University of California - Los Angeles, via AAAS EurekAlert [...]

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