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Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
ACS Nano
Under-twisted DNA origami delivers cancer drugs to tumors
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden describe in a new study how so-called DNA origami can enhance the effect of certain cytostatics used in the treatment of cancer. With the aid of modern nanotechnology, scientists can target drugs direct to the tumor while leaving surrounding healthy tissue untouched.
Swedish research Council, Vinnova, Swedish Academy of Sciences, Carl Bennet AB, and others

Contact: Press Officer Katarina Sternudd
katarina.sternudd@ki.se
46-852-483-895
Karolinska Institutet

Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
UCF nanoscientist receives $2 million NIH award
The National Institutes of Health today awarded University of Central Florida Professor Ming Su its coveted New Innovator award, which comes with a two million dollar grant.
National Institutes of Health

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

Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Nature Materials
Mercury in water, fish detected with nanotechnology
When mercury is dumped into rivers and lakes, the toxic heavy metal can end up in the fish we eat and the water we drink. To help protect consumers from the diseases and conditions associated with mercury, researchers at Northwestern University in collaboration with colleagues at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, have developed a nanoparticle system that is sensitive enough to detect even the smallest levels of heavy metals in our water and fish.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Erin White
ewhite@northwestern.edu
847-491-4888
Northwestern University

Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Electronics without current: Finnish team to research the future of nanoelectronics
Researchers at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, will explore paths toward a completely new way of designing and making logic circuits that consume no current and can be written and read with light.
Academy of Finland

Contact: Professor Donald Lupo, Tampere University of Technology
donald.lupo@tut.fi
358-408-490-614
Tampere University of Technology

Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Applied Physics Letters
Going with the flow
Cells surf through a microfluidic chip on fluid streamlines created by an oscillating plate.

Contact: Catherine Meyers
cmeyers@aip.org
301-209-3088
American Institute of Physics

Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Lab on a Chip
Body heat, fermentation drive new drug-delivery 'micropump'
Researchers have created a new type of miniature pump activated by body heat that could be used in drug-delivery patches powered by fermentation.

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

Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Nature Communications
U of Toronto-led team induces high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor with Scotch tape
An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique using Scotch poster tape that has enabled them to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time. The method paves the way for novel new devices that could be used in quantum computing and to improve energy efficiency.

Contact: Kim Luke
kim.luke@utoronto.ca
416-978-4352
University of Toronto

Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Nanotechnology
Invisible QR codes tackle counterfeit bank notes
An invisible quick response code has been created by researchers in an attempt to increase security on printed documents and reduce the possibility of counterfeiting, a problem which costs governments and private industries billions of pounds each year.

Contact: Michael Bishop
michael.bishop@iop.org
01-179-301-032
Institute of Physics

Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Nature Nanotechnology
Penn researchers make first all-optical nanowire switch
Computers may be getting faster every year, but those advances in computer speed could be dwarfed if their 1s and 0s were represented by light, instead of electricity. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have made an important advance in this frontier of photonics, fashioning the first all-optical photonic switch out of cadmium sulfide nanowires. Moreover, they combined these photonic switches into a logic gate, a fundamental component of computer chips that process information.
US Army Research Office, National Institutes of Health

Contact: Evan Lerner
elerner@upenn.edu
215-573-6604
University of Pennsylvania

Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Measuring mercury levels: Nano-velcro detects water-borne toxic metals
A strip of glass covered in hairy nanoparticles can cheaply and conveniently measure mercury, which attacks the nervous system, and other toxic metals in fluids.
ENI-MIT Alliance, US Defense Threat Reduction Agency

Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
ncmoore@umich.edu
734-647-7087
University of Michigan

Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Nano Letters
Semiconductors grown on graphene
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene, a hybrid material with competitive properties. Semiconductors grown on graphene are expected to become the basis for new types of device systems, and could fundamentally change the semiconductor industry.
Research Council of Norway

Contact: Helge Weman
helge.weman@ntnu.no
47-918-97658
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Public Release: 9-Sep-2012
Nature Materials
Nano-velcro clasps heavy metal molecules in its grips
Researchers have devised a simple, system based on nanoparticles, to detect mercury as well as others pollutants. This technology makes it possible to easily and inexpensively test for these substances in water and, more importantly, in the fish that we eat. This will be published in Nature Material on September 9, 2012.
Eni, US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, US Department of Energy

Contact: Francesco Stellacci
francesco.stellacci@epfl.ch
41-798-125-213
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Science
Clearer look at how iron reacts in the environment
Scientists have developed a the first way to watch electrons hop in semiconductors. This opens research possibilities for premeditation, solar cells, batteries, hydrogen generation, catalysis.
US Department of Energy

Contact: Tona Kunz
tkunz@anl.gov
630-252-5560
DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Physical Review Letters
Needle beam could eliminate signal loss in on-chip optics
An international, Harvard-led team of researchers have demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outwards, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. This "needle beam," as the team calls it, could greatly reduce signal loss for on-chip optical systems and may eventually assist the development of a more powerful class of microprocessors.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation

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

Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Science
The quantum world only partially melts
At the Vienna University of Technology, the transition of quantum systems towards thermal equilibrium has been investigated. Scientists have detected an astonishingly stable intermediate state between order and disorder. The results have now been published in the journal Science.

Contact: Florian Aigner
florian.aigner@tuwien.ac.at
0043-158-801-41027
Vienna University of Technology

Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
New UCLA Engineering research center to revolutionize nanoscale electromagnetic devices
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UCLA and other universities is poised to help turn science fiction into reality -- in the form of some of the world's tiniest electromagnetic devices -- thanks to a major grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering Research Center program.

Contact: Matthew Chin
mchin@support.ucla.edu
310-206-0680
University of California - Los Angeles

Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
NSF awards $450,000 to UNH, Conductive Compounds Inc. for solar panel innovation
University of New Hampshire researchers and Conductive Compounds Inc. in Hudson recently received $450,000 from the National Science Foundation to help produce more conductive and cost-effective solar panels. The three-year grant, under the GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) program, will support the engineering of nanoparticles of silver suitable for screen-printing onto photovoltaic solar panels.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Beth Potier
beth.potier@unh.edu
603-862-1566
University of New Hampshire

Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Biomaterials
Study in mice discovers injection of heat-generating cells reduces belly fat
The injection of a tiny capsule containing heat-generating cells into the abdomens of mice led those animals to burn abdominal fat and initially lose about 20 percent of belly fat after 80 days of treatment.
National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association

Contact: Ouliana Ziouzenkova
Ziouzenkova.1@osu.edu
614-292-5034
Ohio State University

Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Wireless window sentinel
Window contacts tell users if a window is open or closed. Typically, such sensors are wire-based. Scientists working with industry partners recently developed a new system that operates without wires or batteries. It draws its power from its environment: from sunlight and ambient heat.

Contact: Dipl.-Ing. Klaus-Dieter Taschka
klaus.taschka@iis.fraunhofer.de
49-913-177-64475
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Center will create self-powered health monitoring devices
North Carolina State University will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it, the National Science Foundation announced today.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Mick Kulikowski
mick_kulikowski@ncsu.edu
919-515-8387
North Carolina State University

Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Nucleic Acid Therapeutics
Realizing the promise of RNA nanotechnology for new drug development
The use of RNA in nanotechnology applications is highly promising for many applications, including the development of new therapeutic compounds.

Contact: Vicki Cohn
vcohn@liebertpub.com
914-740-2100 x2156
Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Waste not, power up
Materials scientists are rescuing waste silicon and recycling it into anodes for lithium-ion batteries.
US Army Research Office, National Scientific Research Foundation, TINTIN Project

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

Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Every atom counts in graphene formation
Rice University researchers detail the atom-by-atom energies at play in the chemical vapor deposition process of creating graphene.
Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Robert Welch Foundation

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

Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Nano Today
New study shows promise in using RNA nanotechnology to treat cancers and viral infections
A new study by University of Kentucky researchers shows promise for developing ultrastable RNA nanoparticles that may help treat cancer and viral infections by regulating cell function and binding to cancers without harming surrounding tissue.

Contact: Allison Perry
allison.perry@uky.edu
859-323-2399
University of Kentucky

Public Release: 3-Sep-2012
Photon 12
'Magic carpet' could help prevent falls
A 'magic carpet' which can immediately detect when someone has fallen and can help to predict mobility problems has been demonstrated by University of Manchester scientists.

Contact: Daniel Cochlin
daniel.cochlin@manchester.ac.uk
0044-161-275-8387
University of Manchester

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