Nanotechnology

A team of McGill Chemistry Department researchers led by Dr. Hanadi Sleiman has achieved a major breakthrough in the development of nanotubes - tiny "magic bullets" that could one day deliver drugs to specific diseased cells. Sleiman explains that the r

Interest in 'green' innovation means not just thinking big but also very, very, very small. At least that's the way Omowunmi Sadik, director of Binghamton University's Center for Advanced Sensors and Environmental Systems, sees it. She's working to d

SOUTH BEND -- In an effort to prepare students for jobs of the future, Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend is moving ahead with a proposal to become the first college in Indiana to offer an associate's degree program in nanotechnology.

The film "Avatar" isn't the only 3-D blockbuster making a splash this winter. A team of Houston scientists this week unveiled a new technique for growing 3-D cell cultures, a technological leap from the flat petri dish that could save millions of dolla

Earlier this year , Henk Postma, a nanotechnology researcher at California State University Northridge, published an article in Nano Letters in which he proposed to sequence DNA using graphene nanogaps.