[NEWS] Contact: Frank Chaplen frank.chaplen@oregonstate.edu 541-737-1015 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Engineers at Oregon State University have made a significant advance toward producing electricity from sewage, by the use of new coatings on the anodes of microbial electrochemical cells that increased the electricity productio…
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Graphene oxide gets green
[NEWS] Contact: David Ruth druth@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University Rice researchers show environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down “We can make you and we can break you.” If Rice University scientists wrote country songs, their ode to graphene oxide would start something like that. But this song…
Effective OTC Prostate Cancer Test Kit Likely in Next Few Years
An over-the-counter prostate cancer test kit could be coming to a pharmacy near you, thanks to the collaborative work of a University of Central Florida chemist and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando researchers.
UCF’s Qun “Treen” Huo and M.D. Anderson-Orlando’s Dr. Cheryl Baker and Jimmie Colon teamed up about 18 months ago with a very [...]
Magnetic fields can block conductivity of carbon nanotubes
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Contact: David Ruth druth@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University Magnetic fields can block conductivity of carbon nanotubes Metallic carbon nanotubes show great promise for applications from microelectronics to power lines because of their ballistic transmission of electrons. But who knew magnets could stop those electrons i…
Atoms spiral toward a charged carbon nanotube under dramatic acceleration before splitting apart
[NEWS] Contact: Steve Bradt steve_bradt@harvard.edu 617-496-8070 Harvard University Atoms spiral toward a charged carbon nanotube under dramatic acceleration before splitting apart CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 6, 2010 — Carbon nanotubes, long touted for applications in materials and electronics, may also be the stuff of atom…
New study on carbon nanotubes gives hope for medical applications
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Contact: Katarina Sternudd katarina.sternudd@ki.se 46-852-483-895 Karolinska Institutet A team of Swedish and American scientists has shown for the first time that carbon nanotubes can be broken down by an enzyme – myeloperoxidase (MPO) – found in white blood cells. Their discoveries are presented in Nature Nanotechnology and c…
Nano desalination on a silicon chip
A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water to supply the needs of a family or small village. As an added bonus, the system would also remove many [...]
Mini generators make energy from random ambient vibrations
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Contact: Nicole Casal Moore ncmoore@umich.edu 734-647-7087 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR, Mich.—-Tiny generators developed at the University of Michigan could produce enough electricity from random, ambient vibrations to power a wristwatch, pacemaker or wireless sensor. The energy-harvesting devices, created at U-M's Engineering R…
Cancer genes silenced in humans
Short sequences of RNA that can effectively turn off specific genes have for the first time been used to treat skin cancer in people.
The technique, called RNA interference (RNAi), gained its inventors a Nobel Prize in 2006, but researchers have struggled to get it to the clinic, partly because of problems in getting the molecules [...]
Designer nanomaterials on-demand: Berkeley Scientists Report Universal Method for Creating Nanoscale Composites
Berkeley Lab researchers at the Molecular Foundry have developed a universal method by which designer nanomaterials can be created on-demand. This scheme can be used to create materials for battery electrodes, photovoltaics and electronic data storage among a great many other possible applications.
