Advanced nanotech might benefit if proteins could be arrayed on a surface so that they could be quickly and easily scanned for function or interactions with other molecules.
Two stories today in ScienceDaily point to different nanotech applications that could enable a solar solution to our energy problems.
UK scientists have developed a combined computational and experimental method to determine how specific peptides self-assemble on the surface of a gold nanoparticle.
In a study with breast cancer in mice, a nanotech cancer therapy suppresses tumor growth with minimal side effects.
A new nanotech catalyst now enables the efficient conversion of syngas to ethanol.
A combination of silver and calcium phosphate nanoparticles provides an even more effective nanotech antiseptic.
Two different types of nanowires have been integrated on a chip to detect and amplify optical signals.
Long particles are internalized by cancer cells more efficiently than are round particles.
Nanotech has fashioned from graphene a one atom-thick membrane impermeable even to helium gas.
Nanotech researchers have constructed a UV laser that they expect will eventually be able to manipulate and precisely deposit Group III and Group V atoms to construct composite materials atom-by-atom.
