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Showing releases 201-225 out of 762.

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Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Collagen-seeking synthetic protein could lead doctors to tumor locations
A new synthetic protein can pinpoint cancer and other diseases in the body by finding nearby damaged collagen.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense

Contact: Phil Sneiderman
prs@jhu.edu
443-287-9960
Johns Hopkins University

Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Early career distinction: Prestigious award recognizes physicist's work in electron dynamics
Matthias Kling, assistant professor of physics, recently received the Early Career Research Program Award from the US Department of Energy. Kling will receive $750,000 to support his research titled "Electron Dynamics in Nanostructures in Strong Laser Fields."
US Department of Energy

Contact: Matthias Kling
kling@k-state.edu
785-532-1615
Kansas State University

Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Soaking up the Sun
Engineers from Drexel University and The University of Pennsylvania are teaming up to make dye-sensitized solar panels more efficient. The group is using mathematical modeling to test the use of nanotubes and a polymer substrate in the panels.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Britt Faulstick
bef29@drexel.edu
215-895-2617
Drexel University

Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Nano Letters
Breakthrough in nanotechnology
A University of Central Florida assistant professor has developed a new material using nanotechnology, which could help keep pilots and sensitive equipment safe from destructive lasers.

Contact: Zenaida Kotala
zenaida.kotala@ucf.edu
407-823-6120
University of Central Florida

Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Researchers pioneer world's first HIV/AIDS nanomedicines
Scientists at the University of Liverpool are leading a £1.65 million project to produce and test the first nanomedicines for treating HIV/AIDS. The research project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, aims to produce cheaper, more effective medicines which have fewer side effects and are easier to give to newborns and children.

Contact: Sarah Stamper
sarah.stamper@liv.ac.uk
01-517-943-044
University of Liverpool

Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Project MICREAgents: Self-assembling smart microscopic reagents to pioneer pourable electronics
The project MICREAgents plans to build autonomous self-assembling electronic microreagents that are almost as small as cells. They will exchange chemical and electronic information to jointly direct complex chemical reactions and analyses in the solutions they are poured into. The EU supports the project within the FP7 program with 3.4 million Euros for three years. Four research groups at RUB will join forces with top teams across Europe, from Israel and New Zealand.
EU FP7 programme

Contact: Prof. Dr. John S. McCaskill
john.mccaskill@rub.de
49-234-322-7702
Ruhr-University Bochum

Public Release: 28-Aug-2012
Nature Communications
Magnetic vortex reveals key to spintronic speed limit
Spintronics use electron spin to write and read information. To mobilize this emerging technology, scientists must understand exactly how to manipulate spin as a carrier of computer code. Now, scientists at Brookhaven Lab have precisely measured a key parameter of electron interactions called non-adiabatic spin torque that is essential to the development of spintronic devices. This unprecedented precision guides the reading and writing of digital information and sets the spintronic speed limit.
US Department of Energy/Office of Science

Contact: Justin Eure
jeure@bnl.gov
631-344-2347
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Nature Nanotechnology
A new look at proteins in living cells
Nongjian (NJ) Tao, Professor of Electrical Engineering, and director of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute has devised a new technique for examining the binding kinetics of membrane proteins.

Contact: Joseph Caspermeyer
Joseph.Caspermeyer@asu.edu
Arizona State University

Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Nature Nanotechnology
New imaging technique homes in on electrocatalysis of nanoparticles
Nongjian (NJ) Tao -- a researcher at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute -- has found a clever way to measure catalytical reactions of single nanoparticles and multiple particles printed in arrays, which will help characterize and improve existing nanoparticle catalysts, and advance the search for new ones.

Contact: Joseph Caspermeyer
Joseph.Caspermeyer@asu.edu
Arizona State University

Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Angewandte Chemie
Controlling superconductors with light
Proffesor Yoram Dagan of Tel Aviv University says that by shining a light on a thin layer of molecules coating a material, he is able to control the critical temperature at which the material can act as a superconductor. His method might be used to develop more powerful computing devices able to save data and run continuously without generating heat and wasting energy.

Contact: George Hunka
ghunka@aftau.org
212-742-9070
American Friends of Tel Aviv University

Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Advanced Functional Materials
The laser beam as a '3-D painter'
With laser beams, molecules can be fixed at exactly the right position in a three dimensional material. The new method developed at the Vienna University of Technology can be used to grow biological tissue or to create micro sensors.

Contact: Florian Aigner
florian.aigner@tuwien.ac.at
43-158-801-41027
Vienna University of Technology

Public Release: 26-Aug-2012
Nature Materials
Researchers develop method to grow artificial tissues with embedded nanoscale sensors
A multi-institutional research team has developed a method for embedding networks of biocompatible nanoscale wires within engineered tissues. These networks -- which mark the first time that electronics and tissue have been truly merged in 3-D -- allow direct tissue sensing and potentially stimulation, a potential boon for development of engineered tissues that incorporate capabilities for monitoring and stimulation, and of devices for screening new drugs.
National Institutes of Health, McKnight Foundation, Boston Children's Hospital

Contact: Keri Stedman
keri.stedman@childrens.harvard.edu
617-919-2110
Boston Children's Hospital

Public Release: 26-Aug-2012
Nature Materials
Merging the biological and the electronic
Harvard scientists have, for the first, time created a type of "cyborg" tissue by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional, bio-compatible nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues.
National Institutes of Health, McKnight Foundation, Boston Children's Hospital

Contact: Peter Reuell
preuell@fas.harvard.edu
617-496-8070
Harvard University

Public Release: 26-Aug-2012
Nature Nanotechnology
Weighing molecules 1 at a time
A team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology has made the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual molecules one at a time.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation

Contact: Lawren Markle
lmarkle@caltech.edu
626-395-3226
California Institute of Technology

Public Release: 26-Aug-2012
Nature Nanotechnology
New wave of technologies possible after ground-breaking analysis tool developed
A revolutionary tool created by scientists at the University of Sheffield has enabled researchers to analyze nanometer-sized devices without destroying them for the first time, opening the door to a new wave of technologies.

Contact: Paul Mannion
p.f.mannion@sheffield.ac.uk
01-142-229-851
University of Sheffield

Public Release: 24-Aug-2012
Physica Status Solidi A
Microwave ovens may help produce lower cost solar energy technology
The same type of microwave oven technology that most people use to heat up leftover food has found an important application in the solar energy industry, providing a new way to make thin-film photovoltaic products with less energy, expense and environmental concerns.
Sharp Laboratories, Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute

Contact: Greg Herman
greg.herman@oregonstate.edu
541-737-2496
Oregon State University

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Energy and Environmental Science
IBN develops superior fuel cell material
Using a mixture of gold, copper and platinum nanoparticles, IBN researchers have developed a more powerful and longer lasting fuel cell material. This breakthrough was published recently in leading journal, Energy and Environmental Science.
A*STAR

Contact: Elena Tan
elenatan@ibn.a-star.edu.sg
65-682-47032
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Nano Letters
Flat lens offers a perfect image
Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses. It operates at telecom wavelengths -- i.e., those used for fiber-optics -- and is scalable to a wider range.
National Science Foundation, Robert A. Welch Foundation, European Communities Seventh Framework Programme

Contact: Caroline Perry
cperry@seas.harvard.edu
617-496-1351
Harvard University

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
ACS Nano
Nanoparticles reboot blood flow in brain
Nanoparticles show promise in restoring blood flow to the brain when administered soon after a traumatic brain or other injury.
US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Contact: David Ruth
david@rice.edu
713-348-6327
Rice University

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Journal of Visualized Experiments
Novel technique to synthesize nanocrystals that harvest solar energy
A new video protocol in Journal of Visualized Experiments focuses on the liquid phase synthesis of two nanocrystals that produce hydrogen gas or an electric charge when exposed to light. "The main advantage of this technique is that it allows for direct, all inorganic coupling of the light absorber and the catalyst," says the leading author Dr. Mikhail Zamkov of Bowling Green State University.

Contact: Neal Moawed
neal.moawed@jove.com
617-245-0137
The Journal of Visualized Experiments

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
IBC 2012: New standard HEVC encodes films more efficiently
Television resolution is constantly improving – and this must go hand-in-hand with transmitting the data more efficiently. Reputable manufacturers of televisions, computers and mobile telephones, working jointly with Fraunhofer researchers, are developing a new standard for data transmission: "High Efficiency Video Coding", or HEVC for short. This video codec will be unveiled in Amsterdam at the IBC trade show, from Sept. 7 - 11, 2012.

Contact: Thomas Schierl
thomas.schierl@hhi.fraunhofer.de
49-303-100-2227
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Advanced Functional Materials
Sensor detects glucose in saliva and tears for diabetes testing
Researchers have created a new type of biosensor that can detect minute concentrations of glucose in saliva, tears and urine and might be manufactured at low cost because it does not require many processing steps to produce.
National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Resarch

Contact: Emil Venere
venere@purdue.edu
765-494-4709
Purdue University

Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Science
Engineers achieve longstanding goal of stable nanocrystalline metals
A new method developed by MIT researchers could produce materials with exceptional strength and other properties.
US Army Research Office

Contact: Caroline McCall, MIT Media Relations
cmccall5@mit.edu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Public Release: 22-Aug-2012
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Super-strong, high-tech material found to be toxic to aquatic animals
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have potential uses in everything from medicine to electronics to construction. However, CNTs are not without risks. A joint study by the University of Missouri and United States Geological Survey found that they can be toxic to aquatic animals. The researchers urge that care be taken to prevent the release of CNTs into the environment as the materials enter mass production.
Environmental Protection Agency

Contact: Tim Wall
walltj@missouri.edu
573-882-3346
University of Missouri-Columbia

Public Release: 22-Aug-2012
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Key to burning fat faster discovered
Newly discovered on/off switch in enzymes may help battle fat-related disease ranging from stroke and diabetes to acne.
Lundbeck foundation, Danish Research Council

Contact: Jes Andersen
jean@science.ku.dk
(45) 30-50-65-82
University of Copenhagen

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