| 9/7/2010 8:32:23 PM | Grants | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Receives Funding To Create New Program Studying Environmental Impact of Nanotechnology
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Howard University in Washington, D.C., have received a five-year, $3.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to launch a new interdisciplinary program in the environmental effects and policy implications of nanotechnology.
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| 8/9/2010 6:57:49 PM | Research | 0 comments |
CMU Researchers Turn Up Brightness on Fluorescent Probes
Development Will Open New Avenues for Research
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| 4/28/2010 12:07:59 AM | Research | 0 comments |
How Things Work: Atomic force microscopy
Atomic force microscopy (AFM), a popular tool for imaging, measuring, and manipulating matter at the nanoscale, was invented in 1986 and was commercialized in 1989.
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| 4/3/2010 11:01:34 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Scientists Create Toolbox Of Fluorescent Probes in a Rainbow of Colors
The new technology, called fluoromodules, can be used to monitor biological activities of individual proteins in living cells in real time.
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| 2/8/2010 8:48:33 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Physicist the First To Measure Energy Released From a Virus During Infection
Carnegie Mellon University physicist has directly measured the energy associated with the expulsion of viral DNA, a pivotal discovery toward fully understanding the physical mechanisms that control viral infection and designing drugs to interfere with the process.
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| 1/21/2010 6:41:07 PM | Electronics | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon and Intel Collaborate To Improve Energy Costs and Efficiency in Chip Making
Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Corporation will unveil a new class of materials called solder magnetic nanocomposites that could help streamline the process of computer electronic packaging.
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| 3/19/2009 6:12:11 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Scientist Confirms Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition in Silicon
Using rigorous computer calculations, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington have established evidence that supercooled silicon experiences a liquid-liquid phase transition, where at a certain temperature two different states of liquid silicon exist.
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| 8/17/2008 2:46:40 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Hydrogels provide scaffolding for growth of bone cells
Hyaluronic hydrogels developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers may provide a suitable scaffolding to enable bone regeneration.
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| 4/7/2008 9:54:45 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon's Nadine Aubry, Colleague Pushpendra Singh Work To Find Method for Improved Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles
Carnegie Mellon University's Nadine Aubry and colleague Pushpendra Singh of the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) are leading a research team to develop a manufacturing strategy that could improve technologies used in tissue engineering and information technology.
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| 3/7/2008 12:50:00 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon researchers create invisibiity cloak
Carnegie Mellon University's Michael Bockstaller and Krzysztof Matyjaszewski have created a version of Harry Potter's famed "invisibility cloak" for nanoparticles.
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| 2/4/2008 12:06:53 AM | Research | 0 comments |
DNA gets new twist: Carnegie Mellon scientists develop unique 'DNA nanotags'
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have married bright fluorescent dye molecules with DNA nanostructure templates to make nanosized fluorescent labels that hold considerable promise for studying fundamental chemical and biochemical reactions in single molecules or cells.
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| 8/24/2007 12:53:18 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon scientist uses mass spectrometer to weigh virus particle, von Willebrand factor
These exciting results may lead to new biological discoveries and represent a step closer to rapid disease diagnosis using mass spectrometry.
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| 8/20/2007 9:39:16 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop Nanogels That Enable Controlled Delivery Of Carbohydrate Drugs
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed tiny, spherical nanogels that uniformly release encapsulated carbohydrate-based drugs. The scientists created the nanogels using atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), which will ultimately enable the nanogels to deliver more drug directly to the target and to dispense the drug in a time-release manner.
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| 6/26/2007 10:49:08 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Chemists Use Grease To Advance Organic Semiconductor Processing
Scientists have discovered a new chemical process using good-old-fashioned grease that could become widely adopted to produce the next generation of tiny switches for transistors in radio frequency identification tags, flexible screen displays, and debit or key cards.
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| 4/4/2007 12:02:26 AM | Grants | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon researcher wins prestigious career award for NSF
Grant to find out how abrasive nanoparticles cause friction, and surface wear, and what kind of detailed experiments and computational models are effective at predicting these tribological phenomena.
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| 3/5/2007 1:23:23 AM | Quantum dots | 0 comments |
Quantum Dots Detect Metastatic Lesions
By injecting quantum dots into tumors, investigators at Carnegie Mellon University have been able to image sentinel lymph nodes in animals using near-infrared light. These results could lead to a simple, non-invasive method for detecting metastasis
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| 1/27/2007 9:20:46 AM | Research | 0 comments |
DNA Gets New Twist: Scientists Develop Unique "DNA Nanotags"
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have married bright fluorescent dye molecules with DNA nanostructure templates to make nanosized fluorescent labels that hold considerable promise for studying fundamental chemical and biochemical reactions in single molecules or cells
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| 12/23/2006 12:00:50 PM | Nanoparticles | 0 comments |
Inorganic Nanoparticles Improve Gene Transfer into Cells
Gene therapy researchers have yet another nanoscale tool at their disposal, this one made of biocompatible inorganic materials
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| 10/23/2006 6:33:17 AM | Grants | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Awarded Defense Grant To Improve Chip-Making Process for Industry
"we will create new nanoscale chip designs and architectures that will be intelligent enough to fix themselves"
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| 10/10/2006 12:00:17 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing
Using environmentally safe compounds like sugars and vitamin C, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have vastly improved a popular technology used to generate a diverse range of industrial plastics for applications ranging from targeted drug delivery systems to resilient paint coatings.
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| 7/10/2006 11:48:23 PM | Materials | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon University Researcher discovers new materials
Nanostructured materials developed
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| 3/29/2006 10:06:50 PM | Materials | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Study Sets Benchmark Properties For Industry's Most Popular Conducting Plastic
Results Essential To Optimize Materials for Diverse Applications
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| 1/11/2006 2:29:20 PM | Grants | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Scientist Receives NSF Funding to Build Innovative Mass Spectrometer to Study Complex Biomolecules
This one-of-a-kind mass spectrometer will characterize with unprecedented sensitivity large biomolecules, such as intact proteins, protein complexes, virus particles and DNA. It may also provide a new tool for analyzing large man-made polymers used in nanotechnology.
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| 10/3/2005 4:21:12 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Scientists Create PNA Molecule With Potential To Build Nanodevices
This result opens new opportunities to create functional, three-dimensional nanosize structures such as molecular-scale electronic circuits, which could reduce by thousands of times the size of today's common electronic devices.
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| 5/13/2005 10:24:41 AM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Chemists Adapt Simple Casting Technique To Create Ordered Nanocarbons
Technique Could Revolutionize Nanoelectronics Manufacturing
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| 4/19/2005 8:48:20 AM | Education | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon Creates New Nanotechnology Center To Study and Design a New Generation of Technologies
A multidisciplinary team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers will work to create and design new technologies at the Center for Nano-Enabled Devices and Energy Technologies.
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| 4/5/2004 6:16:41 PM | Research | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have developed an attractive way to make discrete carbon nanoparticles for electrical components used in industry and research
Carnegie Mellon University Scientists Use Innovative Polymer Chemistry To Create Novel Carbon Nanoparticles with Vast Potential
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| 4/5/2004 6:14:47 PM | Research | 0 comments |
"Smart" nanoparticles to clean up environmental toxins that resist conventional remediation methods
Carnegie Mellon University Researchers Develop New Nanoparticles To Clean Up Contaminated Sites
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| 3/30/2004 8:25:48 AM | Electronics | 0 comments |
Carnegie Mellon University creates novel carbon nanoparticles with vast potential
Innovative polymer chemistry employed
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