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Contact: Hannah Isom h.isom@leeds.ac.uk 44-011-334-34031 University of Leeds Scientists at the University of Leeds have perfected a new technique that allows them to make molecular nanowires out of thin strips of ring-shaped molecules known as discotic liquid crystals (DLCs). The findings could be an important step in the development of…
[NEWS] TEL AVIV, Israel, September 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — A revolutionary new spherical nanostructure, fully derived from very simple organic elements, yet strong as steel, has been developed and characterized at the laboratories of Ehud Gazit of Tel Aviv University and Itay Rousso of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Lightweight and exceptionally strong, easy …
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Contact: Zoe McDougall media@nanoporetech.com 44-084-503-47900 ×201 Feinstein Kean Healthcare Research demonstrates progress towards DNA strand sequencing Santa Cruz, CA, USA and Oxford, UK, 27 September 2010: Research published this week in Nature Nanotechnology shows a new method of enzyme-controlled mo…
[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…
[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…
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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…
[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…
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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…